dv said:

Consider this article:

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html

A CNN As Equals Investigation
Exposing a global ‘rape academy’
In shocking group chats, men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives – and swap tips on getting away with it
By Saskya Vandoorne, Kara Fox, Niamh Kennedy, Eleanor Stubbs and Marco Chacon, CNN

Published March 26, 2026

This story is the final part of CNN’s As Equals series on gender inequality. For information about how the series was funded and more, check out our FAQs.

The world was confronted by this form of internet-enabled abuse in 2024 during the mass rape and drugging trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men in southern France.

It was on a so-called dating website, in a chatroom called “Without Her Knowledge,” that Pelicot was able to connect with dozens of other men to instigate the rapes of his then-wife, Gisèle. While drugged unconscious by him, she was raped over 200 times by 70 men, not all of whom could be tracked down by police.

The Pelicot case briefly shone a spotlight on this dark corner of the internet. But while Coco, the website involved, was shut down and public attention moved elsewhere, this behavior did not disappear.

A monthslong CNN As Equals investigation has uncovered a hidden, online world where the commodification and amplification of sexual violence against women is flourishing.

One porn site, Motherless.com, is home to more than 20,000 videos of so-called “sleep” content uploaded by users, with hundreds of thousands of views.

The website, which had around 62 million visits in February alone and whose core audience is in the United States, describes itself as a “moral free file host where anything legal is hosted forever.”

The legality of some material posted is in serious doubt.

So-called “sleep” content is categorized using descriptive tags such as #passedout and #eyecheck.

The #eyecheck tag is frequently used in the so-called “sleep porn” community to categorize videos, like this one, posted to the “Zzz” chat group, to indicate a woman is asleep.
In these videos, men film themselves lifting the closed eyelids of women to show they are sleeping or sedated, with some “eyecheck” videos surpassing 50,000 views. Inside the Motherless “sleep” community – first reported on by German investigative journalists Isabell Beer and Isabel Ströh – members trade advice on how to drug their partners.

On the “Zzz” chat group, which a Motherless user had linked to and where we first met Piotr, they do the same. CNN is not providing the names and doses of the specific medicines the users said they employ.

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It’s a deeply troubling trend and it’s no wonder this has caused concern.

However, my socmed feeds are completely full of people saying there were 62 million men visiting a rape academy. I don’t mean one or two, I mean dozens of comments about the 62 million men. Anyone can make a mistake when reading an article but it seems beyond belief that so many would make this specific mistake.

The information in the article is that motherless, a porn website, gets 62 million visits a month. We don’t know how many users that is. If they are visiting on average once a day then it is about 2 million I suppose.

But that’s all the visitors to that site, not the visitors for this particular trend.

I mean the actual truth is terrible. Some of the rapey videos have tens of thousands of hits.

But you’re going to have a distorted and harmful view of the world if you think that 62 million men visited a rape academy.

“The legality of some material posted is in serious doubt.”

How can there be any doubt about the illegality of drugging a woman then raping her?