Category: Pornography

With huge numbers of users comes huge amounts of responsibility, and not a single site has developed a porn-proof filtering system or thorough enough moderation team.

Porn divides people in relationships, stunts sexual pleasure, and messes with consumers’ arousal and sexual function. Wouldn’t that make it sex-negative?

With the accessibility of porn and a sharp increase in popularity of the OnlyFans platform, a whole new demographic of (much younger) men are entering the commercial sex market.

Ohio could become the next state to protect children from obscene content online if legislation introduced last month becomes law. House Bill 84, or the Innocence Act, would compel platforms to verify users are age 18 or older before providing “material that is obscene or harmful to juveniles.” The law would also “prohibit a person from using another person’s likeness to create sexual images of the other person.”

Indeed, the deeper history of opposition to pornography in particular, and the sexual revolution more generally, suggests that one explanation for this lack of efficacy is a failure to emphasize a central truth: that the question concerning pornography is and always has been a ¬subcategory not of the question about sex but of the question about technology.

Many young girls grow up dreaming their first romantic relationship will be special—holding hands or sharing a kiss with a boy who respects and cares for her. But instead, the heartbreaking reality of most teenage girls’ sex lives features abuse, assault, and manipulation—sexual experiences altered by porn culture. One high school-aged girl said a boy recently told her, “If you give me [oral sex], I’ll give you a kiss.”

Short for “Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net,” the bill requires websites to verify the ages of American consumers trying to buy or access adult content

While not perfect, age verification laws greatly restrict the amount of porn young people can consume. South Dakota became the twentieth state requiring pornography companies to check online consumers’ ages on February 27, joining [others]. Described by Politico as “perhaps the most bipartisan laws in the country,” age verification laws empower parents to protect their kids by making it harder for minors to access harmful content like pornography.

Pornhub is the most visited porn site in the world with billions of annual views, and is owned by Aylo Holdings, which operates out of Montreal, Canada. Pornhub has been the subject of a non-stop series of sexual abuse scandals for a half-decade. Toronto comedian Matthew Puzhitsky has a proposal for Canadians: ban Pornhub for Americans, and the trade war will be over. He’s joking, of course, but only kind of.

Porn is a women’s issue in that women and girls are constantly degraded and exploited by porn companies while being told they’re empowered.

First Lady Melania Trump recently held a roundtable in support of legislation that’s crucial to prevent the creation and dissemination of “revenge porn.”