So-called "barely legal" pornography and content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned amid efforts to regulate intimate image sharing.
Yeah, I won’t claim to have much in terms of ideas for how exactly to make legislation, I’m just saying it’s a problem and we shouldn’t be resigned to it being a necessary evil.
To clarify, while obviously I think there are worthwhile conversations about power dynamics, raising the age of consent, and such, what I was saying about “barely legal” porn had nothing to do with the age of the actress (they lie not just to sometimes sneak in minors but also just to make over-18 actresses more “marketable” too, blegh) but with how the actress is presented, by remarking on how she is “barely legal,” “just turned 18,” etc. The complaint that I mentioned was not about whether or not we should let 18 year olds do porn, but that the presentation of some porn is predicated basically on having the closest legal proximity to csam possible, with the whole point basically being pandering to predatory attitudes.
To offer just the smallest bit of a proposal on the “schoolgirl” part though, I’m not saying we should be banning pleated skirts, but we should definitely ban porn labeling someone a “schoolgirl” or similar title that maybe technically could conceivably be legal but in practice mostly refers to minors and is clearly being used because of its proximity to minors, and of course the same goes for carrying this characterization without using that term, like a character being in high school. Practically, this would probably need to take the form of a living list of specific banned things like the aforementioned. I guess it’s a different topic but teacher/student and tutor/student stuff should also be seen in this context as promoting predatory attitudes (though again, I’m not interested in arguing about what private individuals do).
I should mention that I’m emphasizing things like titling so much because there is a huge volume of porn where the title is basically the only full sentence involved short of a remark about climaxing or dirty talk, rather than the kind that has a pizza delivery plot, so the title, the costuming and sometimes the set convey basically the entirety of the “story” that is relevant to this discussion.
When this results in a proliferation of “deniable” media trying to accomplish the same thing, we can cross that bridge when we get there based on the tactics that media uses.
Yeah, I won’t claim to have much in terms of ideas for how exactly to make legislation, I’m just saying it’s a problem and we shouldn’t be resigned to it being a necessary evil.
To clarify, while obviously I think there are worthwhile conversations about power dynamics, raising the age of consent, and such, what I was saying about “barely legal” porn had nothing to do with the age of the actress (they lie not just to sometimes sneak in minors but also just to make over-18 actresses more “marketable” too, blegh) but with how the actress is presented, by remarking on how she is “barely legal,” “just turned 18,” etc. The complaint that I mentioned was not about whether or not we should let 18 year olds do porn, but that the presentation of some porn is predicated basically on having the closest legal proximity to csam possible, with the whole point basically being pandering to predatory attitudes.
To offer just the smallest bit of a proposal on the “schoolgirl” part though, I’m not saying we should be banning pleated skirts, but we should definitely ban porn labeling someone a “schoolgirl” or similar title that maybe technically could conceivably be legal but in practice mostly refers to minors and is clearly being used because of its proximity to minors, and of course the same goes for carrying this characterization without using that term, like a character being in high school. Practically, this would probably need to take the form of a living list of specific banned things like the aforementioned. I guess it’s a different topic but teacher/student and tutor/student stuff should also be seen in this context as promoting predatory attitudes (though again, I’m not interested in arguing about what private individuals do).
I should mention that I’m emphasizing things like titling so much because there is a huge volume of porn where the title is basically the only full sentence involved short of a remark about climaxing or dirty talk, rather than the kind that has a pizza delivery plot, so the title, the costuming and sometimes the set convey basically the entirety of the “story” that is relevant to this discussion.
When this results in a proliferation of “deniable” media trying to accomplish the same thing, we can cross that bridge when we get there based on the tactics that media uses.