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Oct 9, 2005


 I've mentioned this before, but Jon Ronson's The Butterfly Effect (2017) is a pretty good look at how porn transitioning from """professional""" shoots to websites full of mostly stolen content affected the workers.

http://www.jonronson.com/butterfly.html

IIRC it doesn't discuss the new industry pipeline where you start in porn and then, to actually make money, move out of it into unboxing videos for your thirsty parasocial fans, as that to my knowledge is relatively new. But it does discuss the Pornhub guys, the destruction of pre-Internet porn studios, digital porn being a permanent scarlet letter (since everyone will recognize you everywhere you go), the rise of custom order fetish content, and other things.

Generally the Internet caused the industry to just go to different forms of corruption and abuse.


UCS Hellmaker posted:

Iirc the user submitted stuff getting removed was largely due to pornhub having both revenge porn and also child porn. They were notorious for maybe removing it, but then their algo would boost a resubmited video almost instantly. Then you had the whole girls do porn issue where the guy running it was drugging and forcing girls to sign contracts, several of which were under 18, and one of which literally signed it the day she turned 18. Oh and several that demanded he remove or delete the videos that they had attempted to void the contract he had them signed. He instead boosted them and flooded them on tube sites.

There's a massive amount of shady poo poo and mindgeek is just the tip of that iceberg. You could have a book just on the poo poo that happened in the girls do porn moniker and how hosed that was.

Yeah just because it was a prudish billionaire asking the right friends if they could prove their banking companies were not aiding criminal conspiracies does not necessarily mean that he was wrong.

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Shrecknet posted:

Less than 27% of parents use the parental controls to keep kids from accessing porn

Parents are getting better about controlling screen time in general and keeping kids from being zombies who are just on their phones 24/7 (they're less good about staying off phones themselves, but that's another thread) but it looks like they either don't know how or can't be bothered to actually lock down their child's devices to block porn. Every porn site is registered with RTA, the porn industry itself has ASACP to work together to stop CSAM and make sure everyone on their sites is able to click the "Are you 18?" button, but other than that, what is the industry supposed to do?

Obviously being exposed to porn too young is bad, especially porn with specific fetishes like CNC and just generally the very sex-negative way porn is presented in a lot of mainstream films, but what can we do as a society?

Modern sex ed needs to address porn in any substantive way

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