A porn company issued a stern warning that child pornography is still illegal after searches spiked for a certain R. Kelly tape involving a minor.
Searches for the so-called “pee tape” spiked after Lifetime Network aired the six-hour docu-series Surviving R. Kelly earlier this month.
Many are searching for the infamous tape that led to the singer’s past indictment on 21 charges of child porn. Kelly was acquitted by a Chicago jury of his peers in 2008.
A pornography site warned customers about searching its catalogue for “illegal” and “immoral” videos involving minors.
Popular porn site, xHamster, told The Blast that searches for “R Kelly” are up 388% since January 3, when the Lifetime docu-series premiered. The website does not host any R. Kelly pornography videos, nor do they host the infamous videotape from the early 2000’s allegedly depicting Kelly having sex with, and urinating on an underage girl.
Because of the uptick in searches, xHamster took the unusual step of warning searchers that:
“The R Kelly tape is not on xHamster, nor would we ever allow it to be. Regardless of the news or sensation, a tape featuring underaged [children] is both illegal and immoral.”
The site says they will be “disabling searches and putting up messages” alerting any searchers that the content is not available or acceptable.
One of those messages reads, “Please consider that in searching for and viewing such content, you may be re-victimizing a minor who could not consent.”
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