Papers please: for millions of Americans, accessing online pornography now requires a government ID. It could have global implications for the future of the web.
Note that “sexual violence and harmful attitudes” often also include any kind of BDSM or adjacent kinks, anal sex, fisting, scat, etc., all with intentionally misunderstood and exaggerated harms (if not outright just fabricated, like the people tying diapers to “normalization of pedophilia”, while stuff like even pubic hair removal was decried as such). Yes, kinks are becoming more popular thanks to porn (and communities around those kinks), even if it’s scat, which is even thought as disgusting by its practitioners. And there’s nothing wrong with it as long as it’s done with mutual consent and with big care being put on safety. Except if you’re an Evangelical Christian, with a mission to save people that do sex outside of child making, and not in the missionary position.
Note that “sexual violence and harmful attitudes” often also include any kind of BDSM or adjacent kinks, anal sex, fisting, scat, etc., all with intentionally misunderstood and exaggerated harms (if not outright just fabricated, like the people tying diapers to “normalization of pedophilia”, while stuff like even pubic hair removal was decried as such). Yes, kinks are becoming more popular thanks to porn (and communities around those kinks), even if it’s scat, which is even thought as disgusting by its practitioners. And there’s nothing wrong with it as long as it’s done with mutual consent and with big care being put on safety. Except if you’re an Evangelical Christian, with a mission to save people that do sex outside of child making, and not in the missionary position.