Let’s face it: the internet is for porn. On a given year for the industry, porn earns a cool $97 Billion globally. With that much money going around, it should come as no surprise that the money would come back (snerk) to charitable causes of all shapes and sizes, even if most charities would prefer not to be named when receiving money from porn companies.

It’s really nice to see that when the porn industry says they’re doing charity, they don’t just introduce us to a cute girl named “Charity” immediately after. On top of all this talk about charitable causes, there are a lot of other things the porn industry has helped fund and improve upon.

Here are just 8 things the porn industry has accomplished, because when the movers and shakers of the porn industry go for a worthwhile cause, they’re pretty hardcore about it. And yes, expect the double entendres to keep going.

When Steve Gutenberg invented the printing press, the first book it ever published was the Bible. Despite that, what was the book that was most read in the following centuries in Europe, a book that was passed around even more than the duchy on the left hand side?

Pictured: The inspiration for the UFC. Maybe.

Ladies and gentlemen, all rise for the “I Modi.” This book was so popular for so long that people felt the need to actually learn how to read just so they could appreciate it. Between the Bible and the I Modi, the latter provided stronger motivation for literacy.

When armed with a credit card and a modicum of technological knowhow these days, it’s downright convenient to make purchases on the internet. Try to think about which industry did that before everybody else, though. That’s right: porn.

The porn industry was the only industry willing to deal with the, ahem, kinks of a then brand-new payment model that no other online entity was willing to risk at the time. It was this kind of willingness to experiment with new possibilities that could screw them over is what has helped the porn industry blaze a trail everybody else has only recently followed. Indeed, porn is like Star Trek in a lot of ways: boldly going where no man has gone before.

And no, we don’t use air quotes when we say that.

While we get a nice laugh from the many findings Pornhub and RedTube glean from their users, there is a lot of knowledge to be acquired from looking at the data closely and reading between the lines. This is especially true for men, who often get distorted pictures of what women want, thanks to the kind of porn they watch.

Hint: contrary to what this lady used to imply all the time, if a woman really likes it in her face and her hair, she’s a keeper. She’s also rarer than a shiny Pokemon.

The “What Women Want” study by Pornhub and RedTube indicates that the male-centric straight porn we see all the time are less preferred by the ladies, who would rather watch gay porn and lesbian porn on the average, yet still often search for the well-liked porn actor, James Deen. A possible interpretation of this is that women do enjoy porn, but there is a certain type of porn that appeals to them, and whatever may be wrong about straight porn is what’s turning women off.

If men who become real-life sexual partners with these women understood that, then they would be doing themselves a favor just as much as they’re doing the ladies (heh) one, too.

Boobs. They’re nice, but they’re also susceptible to cancer. Pornhub realizes that they need to protect their, ahem, assets, so they decided to make a $75,000 contribution to the war chest of the Susan G. Kommen Foundation, who apparently has no problem with receiving money from fracking, but apparently has issues taking money from porn. Thankfully, the money has been given to three smaller charities for breast cancer, so at least, their jugs are filled. Cock-up averted.

Ochopus may have just made this picture even sexier for Japan.

Apparently, Japan has decided that the best way to raise $24,000 for AIDS research was by allowing men to cop a feel on a dozen Japanese adult film stars. The wildly successful “Boob Aid,” aka “Eroticism Saves the Earth,” was adult channel Sky Perfect TV’s idea to, ahem, bounce back against AIDS. With over 2,000 fans lining up to grope these ladies for a cause, the battle against AIDS has never been more lewd-icrous (or high-pitched).

Pornhub has planted 15,000 trees for their campaign, aptly titled “Give America Wood,” because why the hell not? 15,000 trees erected thanks to porn!

Nobody’s going to argue with you about the social and personal impact that porn makes, and nobody’s going to pretend the negative impacts don’t exist, but let’s not forget that so long as consent is king and content is queen in porn, then it shouldn’t hurt anyone (unless it’s BDSM). Other companies don’t quite have that much moral ascendancy, surprisingly.

PTSD is one of the worst things besetting military veterans. This is why The Porn Charity, led by porn star and former aerospace engineer (YES) Mercedes Carrera, has decided to give some air time to the cause of veterans on her YouTube show. This initiative started in April 18 and is still ongoing, so actual numbers aren’t available just yet. Nonetheless, this is arguably the most different cause porn has ever fought for, since it is probably one that nobody can even try to make some double-meaning poster about, unlike every other item on this list.

Let’s help our hardened veterans!

Or not.

In so many ways, porn has been putting women through college.

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Pornhub is doing it. The Porn Charity is doing it–for Science, no less. Nearly every stripper in a club claims to be doing it. Camgirls do it.

After going through all of the things that porn has done, it’s pretty amazing that there are some churches out there that haven’t done even half as much for the betterment of mankind than porn has, and they don’t even pay taxes. What’s their excuse?

Know anything else your porn has been up to while you weren’t paying attention? Share it with us in the comments section below!