What’s Current: Pornhub owner settles lawsuit brought forward by 50 women over sex-trafficking content

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  • Pornhub’s parent company, MindGeek, has settled a class-action lawsuit brought forward by 50 women who were trafficked by adult content creator Girls Do Porn.
  • Complaints of rape and sexual assault in the U.K.’s military made by girls under the age of 18 have increased tenfold since 2015, according to data from the Ministry of Defence.
  • Taliban militants have allegedly beheaded a member of the Afghan junior women’s national volleyball volleyball team, Mahjabin Hakimi, and have reportedly been hunting down female athletes.
  • A petition requesting compulsory searches at nightclubs in England has gained more than 100,000 signatures after a series of incidents of spiking by injection. Victims report being stabbed by needles and injected with date rape drugs.
Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve Gluck is a writer and advocate for women's sex-based rights and creator of Women's Voices, an audio library dedicated to bringing awareness to feminist texts and speeches.