Oddity of the Week: Porn for Whales

If we are to believe the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (10 February 2016) the online pornography colossus Pornhub ran a three week charity fundraising promotion, starting on 8 February, to mark World Whale Day on 13 February. The proceeds went to Moclips Cetological Society (“Save the Whales”).
Pornhub’s press release apparently celebrated whales’ sexuality as they — like humans and bonobos — do not limit their horniness to procreation.


The company said that over the three week period it would donate 1 cent to the charity for every 2000 videos played on its ubiquitous free websites. Now that might sound extremely mean, but the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted that in just the first two days the world’s porn consumers had played 532 million videos thus earning the charity $2,660.