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UK Porn Block Could be a Ticking 'Privacy Timebomb'
The Open Rights group claims that the BBFC's Age-verification Certificate Standard provides little safety assurance to people who watch porn in the UK.
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39 of the most hilarious messages on the Penthouse strip club's legendary marquee
Vancouver's historical Penthouse Night Club has been adding hysterical messages to it's marquee sign for the last few years. Here are some of the best.
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Tumblr returns to App Store after porn ban
Social network Tumblr is back on Apple's app store after pledging to remove adult content from the platform. Tumblr was removed from the app store in November after child abuse images were found to have slipped through its content filters. The social network then said it would ban adult content completely from 17 December. However, the move has angered many people who said they used the platform as a way to express their sexuality.
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7 Sex Workers on What It Means to Lose Backpage.com
The site provided them with a sense of safety, independence, and control.
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What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn
American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?
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Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence
Easy-to-use applications are letting people face-swap celebrities and porn stars
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The Cam Girls Who Also Stream on Twitch
In many ways, Geisha Monroe and Mandy Morbid are typical Twitch streamers—they’re gamers who share their play experiences with an online following. They cosplay, they collect game-related memorabilia, they tweet Overwatch memes. And like most streamers, Twitch isn’t their job. But what does pay their bills makes them unusual among Twitch streamers: they’re cam performers.
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Where Have All the Sexy Movies Gone?
Film Crit Hulk breaks down the massive social implications of our problem with sex in cinema.
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Porn websites told to prove users are at least 18 or face £250k fine
Pornography websites will be forced to prove that users are aged at least 18 under tough new powers to be announced by the Government tomorrow. The websites will have to install age-verification software or risk being banned in the UK. Sites could also face £250,000 fines if they fail to comply. It is estimated one million children access pornography websites each month. An NSPCC study found half of secondary school pupils had watched online pornography, which experts warn gives them a warped view of sexual relationships.
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Gay porn studio sparks anger over didgeridoo sex movie
A gay porn studio has sparked a furious backlash over a film that shows a man performing a sex act using a didgeridoo. The explicit movie has been branded 'racist' and 'incredibly disrespectful to the Australian aboriginal community' for its portrayal of the wind instrument as a sex toy. The adult film - titled 'Didgeridoo Me' - shows a sleeping man being woken up by his partner loudly playing the long pipe.
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New internet porn laws could force viewers to prove age at POST OFFICE
Tough new porn laws could mean viewers of adult content are forced to verify their age at the post office before accessing explicit material online. Online restrictions are being brought in thanks to the Tory Government's Digital Economy Act, which received Royal Assent last week. The new rules make it more difficult for children to access adult material because of the new age verification process.
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Pornhub And YouPorn Are Adding Support for HTTPS Encryption
Porn sites need to have good security. Hackers have repeatedly targeted such sites and made off with user data, including usernames and passwords. But, although it's not a totally mutually exclusive concept, porn sites should consider the privacy of their users too. On Thursday, both Pornhub and YouPorn announced they were switching on HTTPS on their websites, which protects data in transit between users' browsers and the sites' servers.
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Russia bans porn site Brazzers
The Russian government has blocked porn site Brazzers over claims it is damaging to the “human psyche”. Roskomnadzor, the country’s media watchdog, blacklisted the site, preventing access from Russian servers. It follows a ruling by a district court in the Samara region that Brazzers has a “negative impact” and “violated citizens’ rights”, reports the TJ Journal.
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Prenda Law “copyright trolls” Steele and Hansmeier arrested
Lawyers who turned porn lawsuits into big business now face criminal charges.
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One lawyer’s crusade to defend extreme pornography
The long read: Myles Jackman is on a mission to change Britain’s obscenity laws. For him, it’s more than a job, it’s a moral calling.
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800,000 Brazzers porn site accounts exposed in huge, throbbing hack
Nearly 800,000 emails, passwords and usernames attributed to accounts on the Brazzers porn site forum have been leaked. Originally reported to Motherboard by vigilante.pw, a breach monitoring watchdog, the hack contained over 900,000 individual records. Aside from inactive or duplicate accounts, that meant some 790,724 unique email addresses, usernames and plaintext passwords are now out in the ether.
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FBI-owned Megaupload.org serves up porn and sex ads
Megaupload.org used to be where you'd go to access the vast amount of films hosted by Kim Dotcom's Megaupload service. But once Dotcom was hit with US criminal charges, that site and many others were grabbed by the FBI, and visiting them produced nothing but a government seizure banner. No longer. Today, a visit to Megaupload.org (NSFW) brings up what can only be described as softcore porn.
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Divorce rates double when people start watching porn
There’s an oft-quoted rule on the internet: “If it exists, there is porn of it.” Even if that’s an exaggeration, there’s no question that men and women have been consuming more sexually explicit content since the world went online. Now, a new study looks at how this consumption might affect marriage in the United States. The study, a working paper presented this week at the 2016 American Sociological Association’s annual meeting, suggests that men and women who begin to consume pornography partway through their marriages are more likely to get a divorce than their non–porn-consuming peers.
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Micro-targeted digital porn is changing human sexuality
Ever-faster feedback loops and micro-targeted digital porn are pushing human sexuality into some seriously weird places
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What Is Utah’s Anti-Porn Craze Really About?
One scholar doesn’t think it has much to do with actual public-health concerns.
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