LISTEN Laura Farris MP calls for criminal penalties for online porn providers

The sharing of revenge porn is to be classified as the most serious type of online offence under the Online Safety Act, meaning social media platforms will now have to take steps proactively to remove it, the Government has said. Intimate image abuse can also be referred to as ‘revenge porn’, non-consensual pornography or image-based sexual abuse. Recently passed legislation in Texas requires citizens of that state to provide websites with distressingly detailed personal information to access pornographic content. Using a VPN to spoof your location to anywhere else in the US would protect you from having to hand over this information. Don’t worry if you don’t already use one of these privacy-protecting services; we have a handy roundup of the best VPNs for Pornhub you can consult. In some places, what would be considered legal pornography in the US is outright banned, and accessing it could lead to complications with law enforcement.

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Basically, don’t slide into random DMs or be creepy with your colleagues, and be respectful to the sex workers whose content you consume. Privacy services like Abine Blur and others let you create disposable email addresses, phone numbers, and even credit card numbers on the fly. The disposable email addresses are particularly useful since you can generate a new, unique address for each service, making it much harder to tie accounts back to you. A variant of this kind of scam is called “sextortion,” where the attacker blackmails the victim into providing explicit images of themselves.

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The best sex education you can give your son (or daughter) is to talk to them about the porn they will see, either from their own phone, or if you have put parental filters on, on those of their friends. They need to understand that the porn videos they see are not the kind of real sex that usually occurs between loving partners. There is no intimacy, no discussion of consent, and the most repeated behaviours demonstrated often objectify the receiver of the sexual act, most commonly young women and young men. Porn teaches that women and young men want to be ejaculated all over their bodies and/or faces, that they want to have every orifice filled all at the same time, and that whatever is done to them, they are happy and willing recipients. There is no understanding that these are choreographed events, and there is also no understanding that many are coerced into looking ‘happy’.

He advised that users avoid downloading pornographic content and instead stream it (via a VPN, naturally). One of the easiest ways for your pornographic preferences to become public is the auto-complete self-own. Most browsers and search engines try to be helpful by guessing what you’re typing based on what you’ve done in the past. If you frequent pornsite.xxx, your browser might “helpfully” fill in that URL when you go to show someone PCMag’s best VPN roundup. This is bad enough if someone is looking over your shoulder, but in these days of working from home and screen sharing in Zoom meetings, you’re likely to multiply your embarrassment by the number of people attending your meeting.

Porn sites start rolling out age assurance

• Models have traditionally defined the basis of addiction purely in neurobiological terms.
• Well… the porn industry has, since the dawn of the internet, been the driving force, the biggest influencer and the core innovator that has created the – clean – everyday internet we know and love today.
• Yet despite this central role, ISPs remain largely on the sidelines of the current Online Safety Act framework.
• Each image is likely to have been viewed for a matter of seconds before the next is searched for, as it is the searching that is addictive, not the images themselves.

“Some people will seek out more extreme images to achieve greater sexual gratification,” she said. Advice for parents, carers, professionals, and survivors, providing guidance on understanding key issues, responding to challenges, keeping children safe, maintaining wellbeing and where to find additional support. The best test is to stop using porn for a period of time, say at least a month, and see what happens. You may lose all interest in sex for a while (called ‘flat-lining’), but don’t panic and return to porn.

JoyBear is a British porn site that prides itself on promoting complex, strong, interesting female characters who are respected and paid fairly – and is one of the industry OGs, since it’s been around since 2003. JoyBear want us to see a “world where sex is positive and not taboo” and their platform is a safe space to explore, enjoy and most importantly have fun – removing the fear of not being perfect during one of life’s greatest pleasures. Oh, and they make sure to include “a lot of kissing” — because, honestly, that’s sometimes the best part. Make Love Not Porn is a platform that shows real sex among real people, giving us LIFE (and porno body confidence) for not looking as slick as the contrived porn we have all been drip-fed up to now. “#RealWorldSex in all its glorious, silly, beautiful, messy, reassuring humanness.” Couples willingly submit videos of themselves having sex, where half of the money will go back to the stars themselves.