Honey, flowers, movies and romance: all these things could relate to bees, well maybe not so much for romance, that is until Pornhub came along.
Pornhub, a Canadian pornographic video sharing site owned by MindGeek, recently launched a new category called BeeSexual to help spread awareness of the diminishing bee population and its effect on nature while also donating to bee-saving charities.
At first, you might think this is a kink-filled category fuelled by melissophilia, sexual attraction to bees (yup, that’s a thing). But bees drastically declining in numbers is an ongoing epidemic and Porhub merely brings some levity to this situation.
According to sos-bees.org honeybee colonies have been declining since the 1990s. The reasons: bee-killing pesticides, loss of biodiversity due to monoculture (the cultivation of a single crop over a large area), parasites and climate change.
However, it is not only the bees that are on the decline. Pollinators as a whole have been dwindling in size. According to xerces.org, which describes itself as a “science-based nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation” western monarch butterflies have declined by 99.4 percent since the 1980s. Pollinators play a vital role in agriculture by fertilizing flowers and crops. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, bees alone fertilize more than 90 percent of our major food crops.
A world without pollinators means a world without humans as well. A study on pollinators by United States Forest Services says that “without pollinators, the human race and all of Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems would not survive.”
Zeke Wagner a plant science major from Mercer says “I believe that as some of the most compos mentis and sentient beings on this planet it is morally unsound for us, as a population, not to take the necessary measures to support, maintain and save the bee population.”
So if people want to keep bees Stayin’ Alive like the Bee Gees then we have to start taking better care of the environment. Ways people can help right away includes stopping the use of harmful pesticides such as neonicotinoids which are toxic to bees since they can be absorbed by flowers according to panna.org. The other thing you can do is spread awareness.
Abella Danger a porn star says on Pornhub’s BeeSexual premier video “So remember, without bees, there is no plan-B. Take the matter into your own hands.”
Time to step up and be more like the wise folks at Pornhub. No, seriously. The bees need us.
