GROUPON BOYCOTTED OVER TORTURE PORNOGRAPHY
Discounter Defends Female
Torture Porn Company Tours
Washington, DC (April 20, 2012) – Morality In Media today announced a
national boycott of Groupon because twice this year the coupon company has
offered discounts on tours of torture porn studio, Kink.
“Selling coupons supporting the degradation of women is as low as a
publicly-traded company can go,” said MIM executive director, Dawn Hawkins.
“Groupon frames the tour as a historic one, comparing the opportunity to
visiting the Smithsonian Institute because the building that houses Kink has an
‘historic history in San Francisco.’”
Kink advertises that they have “young sexy teens who are overwhelmed and
outnumbered…who need to learn a lesson by multiple men;” women being “bound,
whipped, objectified and humiliated. They are immobilized, caged and humiliated
as objects;” of women “suspended and tied in rope bondage…tormented beyond all
reason;” and of women “naked, tied up, bound, punished, exposed in public…who
are taken to public bars for public humiliation…”
Kink, which sells porn videos and offers live online torture porn
performances, also notes on its site that, “Girls are also pulled in and out of
cages, their tongues clamped, their bodies pinned, and their arms and legs
strapped.” 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.”
This week, Morality in Media asked its supporters to write Groupon urging
that the company stop supporting Kink. Groupon responded by defending Kink,
saying, “We thoroughly vet the businesses we feature…Fortunately, this business
has proven to be a responsible member of their community.”
“Groupon should be thinking of their wider commercial audience, most of
which, unlike Groupon, would not support torture and humiliation of women and
girls for the sexual enjoyment of disturbed men,” said Hawkins. “But since
Groupon not only seems to support Kink, but is happy to profit from the torture
of women, we have called for a national boycott,” she added.
A special “Boycott Groupon Project” page has been set up at
http://bit.ly/HSEzLt. There boycott supporters
may also email all top Groupon Executives.
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