WASHINGTON – The Washington Post published a lengthy article about Pornhub and Aylo this weekend, highlighting Ethical Capital Partners Vice President of Compliance Solomon Friedman’s keynote speech and other appearances at XBIZ Los Angeles in January.
Washington Post writer Hallie Lieberman – who also attended the event – called XBIZ Los Angeles “one of the largest porn conferences in the world,” and informed the US newspaper’s regular readership of the adult industry trade meeting’s reach. .
Last year, Lieberman explained, Friedman “co-founded a private equity firm to acquire MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub, one of the largest porn streaming and entertainment sites in the world. He visited XBIZ to introduce himself to a skeptical audience whose livelihoods were initially destroyed by the site’s free content offerings.”
The Post column described Friedman as “wearing rooster-print socks sticking out of his New Balance sneakers” and at the water machines at the bar of XBIZ LA’s home base, the Kimpton Everly Hotel, “asserting his place in all of this.” to find out was’.
For Friedman, Lieberman notes, “porn is not the problem. It’s just that it peels away the social niceties to reveal the human condition.”
“Pornography is a mirror and reflects society back to itself,” Solomon told the reporter. “So when people complain about porn, it’s like looking in the mirror, being unhappy and saying, ‘I have to smash that mirror.’”
The article also includes interviews with Pornhub VP of Community and Brand Alex Kekesi and Director Sana Gaziani, both of whom also attended XBIZ LA.
Ultimately, Friedman and the Aylo crew felt very welcomed by industry stakeholders at XBIZ LA. The conference “went better than expected,” he told Lieberman on the final day. “This is a tough sector, but being here has given me new energy. You meet the real people.”
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