Pornhub wants you to watch nature porn to help save the bees

Pornhub is, as we know, a super successful and popular porn site. In 2017, 28.5 billion people visited it. It garners 50,000 searches per minute. Their viewers watched an average of 10 minutes of footage each visit and they streamed an incredible amount of data last year.

We expect acts of charity from other internet giants like Amazon, but what about internet giants like Pornhub? Do we expect them to give back?

I, personally, never expected it – mostly because I never thought about it. But it turns out they do.

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PornHub has set up Pornhub Cares, which lists its current social programs and charity works. They take part in sex education – an obvious choice – but also have giveaways for college scholarships for post-secondary students and women in tech:

“For this year’s $25K Pornhub Cares Scholarship, we are inviting post-secondary students from around the globe and in all fields of study to apply, starting with an answer to this year’s theme question: how is your work contributing to a better future for the world?”

They have initiatives to save the whales, stop domestic violence, and they also spread PSAs about neutering or spaying your pets.

Here’s a great video explaining the relaunch of their free Sexual Wellness Center:

Suffice to say that Pornhub is a force for good in this world in a variety of ways.

Now Pornhub has taken on another very important issue: saving the bees.

It’s a great choice, as bees are critical to pollination, which is critical to the balance of many ecosystems. Greenpeace tells us:

U.S. National Agricultural Statistics show a honey bee decline from about 6 million hives in 1947 to 2.4 million hives in 2008, a 60 percent reduction. The number of working bee colonies per hectare provides a critical metric of crop health.

Honey bees — wild and domestic — perform about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. Grains are primarily pollinated by the wind, but fruits, nuts and vegetables are pollinated by bees. Seventy out of the top 100 human food crops — which supply about 90 percent of the world’s nutrition — are pollinated by bees.

In the opening video for their new series “Beesexual”, they tell us that bees are essential to the sex life of plants. They’re mostly correct. The series is made up of nature videos that show bees deep into flowers, getting all dirty with pollen, while popular porn stars do voice-overs. Every click these videos get becomes a financial contribution to bee-saving charities across the world.

“We turned short videos of foraging bees into what they really
are: nature porn”, they explain on Pornhub Cares.

But why are bees dying off so rapidly? Like most other issues with the Earth’s environment, it has a lot to do with humans. Although there are many interconnected reasons like drought, pollution, habitat destruction, and global warming, it seems pesticides may be the biggest culprit. Greenpeace goes into detail on their website:

A Greenpeace scientific report identifies seven priority bee-killer pesticides—including the three nicotine culprits—plus clorpyriphos, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, and fipronil. The three neonicotinoids act on insect nervous systems. They accumulate in individual bees and within entire colonies, including the honey that bees feed to infant larvae. Bees that do not die outright, experience sub-lethal systemic effects, development defects, weakness, and loss of orientation. The die-off leaves fewer bees and weaker bees, who must work harder to produce honey in depleted wild habitats. These conditions create the nightmare formula for bee colony collapse.

Though it may feel like there isn’t much you can do to put a stop to the use of harmful pesticides (other than watching bees gettin’ it on as many times as possible) Pornhub gives some practical advice:

Leave a little basin of water outside near your garden or on your windowsill for thirsty bees in the summer.
Avoid buying or using products that contain pesticides, fungicides or herbicides.
Get a window box or garden so you can plant blooming plant varieties. There’s some great ideas on this website.
Have a good variety – or biodiversity – of plants, which could mean leaving any weeds your garden has alone. This is a good tip for the lazy ones among us.

Watch their video here to learn more:

Like they say, there is no plan B for the bees.

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