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BougieBitch
Oct 2, 2013

Basic as hell
So here's a thing I've never seen meaningful discussion about - what would a reasonable option be for controlling what underage users view?

It seems to me like full prohibition is a non-starter - I doubt anyone on this site waited until they were 18 to look up porn - but there are some really gross outcomes for full opening the floodgates, especially for stuff like camshows or whatnot where every teen that sneaks past the filter is essentially a participant in a group sex act. If I was camming I would feel extremely gross knowing that had happened, so there are definitely SOME situations where we definitely want hard barriers, but at the same time there has never been a way to keep teens from porn, and even if the mainstream, US-based sites had a foolproof system it would just funnel people into the shady Russian ones or whatever, which probably have a higher likelihood of being unsafe for virus/data stealing reasons and featuring trafficked performers.

Is there, like, some sort of "porno learner's permit" that should exist somehow? Like, what is the middle ground between total prohibition and Wild West unregulated?

It feels especially egregious when you consider that there are a bunch of technicalities around the age of consent that make it so someone can be covered by "Romeo and Juliet" laws if they want to have actual sex, but aren't able to look at erotic content in any other venue - not to mention how many people are victimized in part because they don't recognize that something is inappropriate

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BougieBitch
Oct 2, 2013

Basic as hell

Grape posted:

He's from Texas, it would have been better for him to ask and then for us to look up the local rates are.

I mean, seems you could easily read it as his immediate cohort, which is a countable number and not anecdotal data

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