PornHub offers free premium subscriptions to Italians in coronavirus lockdown

ROME, Mar 13, 2020, The Daily Mail. Pornhub is offering free access to its premium service to people who live in Italy until April 3. In a press release shared on Thursday, the site revealed it’ll donate proceeds from the Modelhub platform after the European country implemented a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, The Daily Mail reported.

The announcement reads: ‘Forza Italia, We love you! PornHub has decided to donate its percentage revenue from ModelHub platform from March to help Italy during the outbreak.

Pornhub is offering free access to its premium service to people who live in Italy until April 3 (stock image) +7
Pornhub is offering free access to its premium service to people who live in Italy until April 3 (stock image)

‘To help you during these weeks at home, for the whole months you can access PornHub Premium free of charge, with no need of using your credit card’, Pornhub added.

Launched in 2007, the platform – which is currently the world’s biggest porn site – was used 42 billion times last year, and boasted 115 million daily visitors.

Italy ranked seventh in Pornhub’s top 20 countries by traffic in 2019, with the US, Japan and the UK taking the first three spots.

Earlier in the month, it was reported that porn sites have been cashing in on the coronavirus outbreak, with the platforms posting films of people having sex in hazmat suits in an twisted new trend.

Videos titled ‘Deserted Wuhan’ and ‘TSA Agent Detains Woman Suspected of Coronavirus’ are among others that have been appearing on their pages.

The kooky clips feature actors in hazmat suits, face masks or hospital gowns engaging in sexual intercourse in what looks like medical facilities.

Spicy – the male half of porn duo Spicy x Rice – told Vice: ‘I think people are attracted to COVID-19 themed porn the same way people who are scared of their shadow are attached to horror movies: We are all searching for things that make us come alive.’

‘COVID-19 is something that brings fear and mystery to pretty much everyone in the world right now… You need to be able to feel something, and what better way to make you feel something than the global crisis we are all in right now.’

According to the actor, some of their videos contain key information on how to prevent the spread of the disease and were made with the intention to educate people.

‘We thought we would use our porn as an avenue to get some legitimate information out with some comic relief included to get people interested and reduce our chances of being banned,’ Spicy added to the publication.

At least 125,000 patients have been infected and 4,000 have died worldwide since the outbreak began last December.

The virus has been spreading between humans in four continents since February 28, the WHO has admitted.

The killer coronavirus rapidly spreading around the world can survive in the air for three hours, scientists have found.

US government researchers, who worked with other experts, also found the deadly infection can live on surfaces for up to three days.

Tests showed the virus can survive on copper for four hours, cardboard for an entire day and up to 72 hours on plastic and steel.