Now, it appears that
Groupon has doubled down on porn, supporting an event at the mansion of
the world’s top sexual exploiter: Playboy.
MIM continues to urge
Groupon to end its support of the sexual exploitation of women and
girls, but despite a national boycott of the company that resulted in
more than 10,000 of Groupon’s customers unsubscribing from the service
the company has not done so. MIM thinks it knows why.
“Morality in Media
searched Groupon’s online information to learn the names of the
company’s female senior management executives so we could appeal to
them,” says Dawn Hawkins, executive director of Morality in Media.
“Guess what? Groupon doesn’t have
any! Perhaps that explains why the company is so insensitive to the
sexual exploitation of women and girls.”
As
Hawkins sees it, Playboy has done more to promote female sexual
exploitation than any other entity in the world—and Kink takes such
exploitation to a new, lower level.
“Kink, which offers live pornographic performances and porn videos, states on its site that,
‘Girls are … pulled in and out of cages, their tongues clamped, their
bodies pinned, and their arms and legs strapped,’” Hawkins says. “They
also claim to employ ‘contraptions used in countries such as China for
torture’ as well as ‘machines, water, metal, wood, electrodes, hooks,
needles and urination, all for the sexual persecution of women and
‘young teenage girls.’”
MIM reports that Groupon
has defended its support of extreme, violent pornography, claiming that
Kink is an “active, good member of their community.”
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