Noelle Perdue is featured in Money Shot: The PornHub Story

Noelle Perdue is passionate about porn preservation. She’s some kind of porn truther. When we meet her at Netflix Money Shot: The PornHub Story, she reveals that she once worked for MindGeek, the company that owns PornHub. She bounced around the company for three years, eventually ending up as a porn screenwriter.

The documentary explores how PornHub benefited from videos uploaded to its site showing underage children, scenes of rape and assault, and instances of pornographic content added to the site without the consent of the participants. Noelle offers an interesting and refreshing look at part of the journey behind the attempted dismantling of PornHub. Here’s what we know about them.

As a proponent of safe, consensual porn, Noelle finds herself in a difficult spot in the documentary. While certainly horrible videos have been uploaded to PornHub without the company seeming keen on removing them, there have also been verified models working with the site. It’s clear that some of the PornHub critics equated sex work with sex trafficking, which Noelle and others in the documentary contradict. This, in turn, led to a grudging defense of the organization.

in a (n Instagram post about the documentary, says Noelle, it’s the “end product of a project I’ve been involved with for the past two years; I was interviewed and also worked as an archivist and consultant – mainly as a fact checker and visual reference maker for the Historical Elements.” Her involvement in the documentary is due in part to her interest in bringing more “nuanced” information about porn into the world .

“You want it to say everything you’ve ever had to explain at a party or to your relatives or to literal strangers on the internet, you want it to give every single element of this incredibly complicated subject the time, energy and care it deserves, She writes. Her dedication and determination is impressive and inspiring. Her hope is that it will “inspire people to continue to engage with the adult industry out of curiosity and not out of shame or stigma.”

Noelle has also written for publications such as slate, The Washington PostAnd Wired. As she writes about sex work each time, Noelle finds interesting entry points (that’s not a euphemism). Noelle has spoken out about the racist metadata of porn, the ongoing war on OnlyFans, and the loneliness epidemic. Our only complaint is that the Netflix PornHub documentary could have included it more.

Money Shot: The PornHub Story is currently streaming on Netflix.