Several Russian porn actresses praised the decision by local telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor to blacklist Pornhub.
The girls expressed hope that restricting access to free adult-rated content will help increase revenues from sales of pornographic videos, according to RIA Novosti.
"If you want to read a new book, you buy it. If you want to view a premiere of a new movie, you buy a ticket. And if you want new porn, you should just buy it – it’s not that expensive. In Russia they created free websites, so porn here is no longer treated as something that has value," a porn actress named Angelina Doroshenkova (whose porn name is Ally Breelsen) said.
Her concerns were echoed by her colleague, Lyubov Bushueva, also known as Lola Taylor in the adult world.
"People in our country don’t like to pay; they prefer to get everything for free… Porn actresses earn little now, big wages have become a thing of the past. Now you go to work in the porn industry simply to make a name for yourself," Bushueva complained.
However, another porn actress who calls herself Kristall Rush argued that the Pornhub ban is largely pointless as web users will simply find another adult video website which the Internet has no shortage of.
Pornhub is a pornographic video-sharing website and the largest pornography site on the Internet.
In 2015 the Russian-language version of Pornhub was blacklisted by the local telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor, and on September 14, 2016 the website was banned in Russia completely.
