Pornhub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: PornHub
Etymology: From porn (“pornography”) + hub (“a central facility providing a range of related services”), so-called because the website hosts pornographic videos; but Pornhub was originally part of a parent company called Interhub upon its foundation, from which it thus possibly receives its name. Coined by founder Matt Keezer in May 2007. The noun sense is derived from the prominence of Pornhub.
Senses: examples: text: Sites like Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube attract more users than TMZ and the Huffington Post. The porn sites are even bigger than Pirate Bay, the top portal for illegal downloads of movies, TV shows and music.
ref: 2009 August 10, Ben Fritz, “Tough times in the porn biz”, in Los Angeles Times, page B3:
text: Only 1 in 24,000 PornHub^([sic]) searches by men are explicitly for preteens; that may have something to do with the fact that PornHub,^([sic]) for obvious reasons, bans all forms of child pornography and possessing it is illegal.
ref: 2017, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:
text: With each horrifying news story lately, my husband has taken to asking, “Is it time for the abbey?” We talk about living in the (nonexistent) caretaker’s cottage, raising our son up in fresh air, far from the evils of corrupt politicians and Pornhub.
ref: 2017 December 21, J. Courtney Sullivan, “Get Me to a Nunnery”, in The New York Times:
text: “Girl, that nigga know he’s fine, damn!” […] “Juelz, girl, the things I would do to him can only be seen on Pornhub and Xvideos,” she laughed, I pretended to look to my right.
ref: 2019, Giselle Gates, Married to a New York Menace: He's the Sickest in the Game, Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 52:
text: I’m surprised by how quickly I have become a home obsessive. I trawl Facebook Marketplace at every hour of the day for bargains, like a teenager who has just discovered Pornhub. All my targeted online ads have flipped from dating apps and activewear to rugs and midcentury dining tables I can’t possibly afford (but will definitely click on anyway).
ref: 2020 May 27, Josephine Tovey, “Our homes have become our whole world – and now I'm obsessed with changing mine”, in The Guardian:
text: A number of parents complained about the lesson to the school board, with one describing the sculpture [Michelangelo's David] as “pornographic”. […] By that thinking, I guess all the breasts and bottoms on display make the Sistine Chapel the Pornhub of the 16th century.
ref: 2023 March 27, Brad Emery, “Michelangelo a genius? No, just a filthy little boy”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: A second, untitled horror movie was described in Variety as “a late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality”. Let’s hope PornHub^([sic]) doesn’t see an angle here.
ref: 2024 January 5, Emma Brockes, “Digested week: Abdication of Denmark’s queen continues to charm and entertain”, in The Guardian:
text: Recommender systems now rank, sort, filter, and suggest information to users, based on a range of data including user behavior and preferences. Pornhub has a "Recommended For You" section on their homepage as well as their "Recommended Categories" and "Recommended Porn Stars," where they direct users to particular videos, categories, and performers.
ref: 2024, Chibundo Egwuatu, Zahra Stardust, Mireille Miller-Young, Daisy Ducati, “Curating Desire: The White Supremacist Grammar of Tagging on Pornhub”, in Amir Baradaran, Denton Callander, Panteá Farvid, Thomas A. Vance, editor, Sexual Racism and Social Justice: Reckoning with White Supremacy and Desire, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 284:
text: Adult content platforms have come under fire elsewhere in the European Union. EU regulators said last month that several sites, including Pornhub, would be investigated for failing to comply with rules to protect children.
ref: 2025 June 4, “Pornhub owner to suspend site in France in protest at new verification law”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A pornographic video-sharing website.
Synonyms: word: PH
word: the Hub
word: ⬛️🟧
word: Cornhub
Hypernyms: porn site
Derived terms: -hub
Pornhuber