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What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by AdkamEup »

laurent_du wrote: post #21

> The image attached to this blog post is a stock photo of a nude pregnant woman. Absolutely nothing sexual. How is this not sexual? The fact that it's a stock photo, or that the woman is pregnant, is irrelevant. It's very clearly a sexual picture.

Wow, you've gotten downvoted.

I came here for your comment. That stock photo is strikingly sexual; it immediately makes me horny. (I'm a cis-het guy nearing 50 years of age, I have an active and satisfying sex life with my wife, and I've not looked at porn, or engaged in self-pleasing, for several years now. The reason I find the photo sexual is not that "I'm not getting any". I've been getting plenty, thank you very much.) I had had regular sex with my wife during all of her pregnancies; if anything, pregnancy makes women more arousing to me (without it being a "kink" for me).

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by AlecSchueler »

h1fra wrote: post #19

Hard question, and Instagram is getting abused by this. They allowed breastfeeding as a non-porn category, now you have hundreds of OnlyFans account faking breastfeeding. Effectively ruining the progress for everybody.

I'm a new parent who recently stumbled into the world of Instagram breastfeeding pornography. I just wanted to say that the content I saw seemed to be almost universally published by men rather than women pushing their own OnlyFans content.

I know you probably didn't intend it that way but I often see criticism of OnlyFans specifically made when I wouldn't have seen it around traditionally male operated pornography publishing, and sometimes there's a feeling of subtle misogyny creeping in.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by ta1243 »

It's not hard

1) Get any porn site that is going to obey this to instead list themselves in some open way (TXT record in DNS, blockchain, some other form of list)

2) Get any provider in the UK to block access to those lists if the account owner wants it. That's ISPs and phone providers. I'd say it should be opt in, but opt out would be a reasonable compromise.

That way I can be happy that my 12 year old won't accidentality end up on some really shady porn site following a link from a classmate's whatsapp if they aren't at home.

Of course classmates can still share the content on whatsapp, and this isn't going to stop that.

If you want to really tackle the problem - and this would be really controversial -- have lists of "healthy porn", which people could opt in via their ISP to allow, or perhaps allow for a set period. I have no problem with a teenager looking at boobs, there's a big difference between the modern equivalent of FHM or playboy and many kinds of aggressive porn that's just as accessible.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by zakki »

pmlnr wrote: post #15
forinti wrote: post #9

Some Brazilian tribes had fertility festivals with dances meant to arouse the males, because simple nudity wasn't enough to get them interested in sex. So maybe making nudity less common or accessible only makes it more valuable as a sexual thing.

It's a much bigger question why, such a completely natural and normal thing, like nudity, in the supposed to be educated - at least in basic biology - 2025, be made and exclusive thing. The intro of the 1986 Once upon a time... Life animation series, that's the best human biology educational program that exists to this very day, starts with scenes many would classify as nudity - but it's also essential to the topic a…

Well, many things are natural. Still we have many rules for it. I.e. naturally stronger animals kill weaker ones. Yet we don't want this happen in the human community.

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Post by RansomStark »

Havoc wrote: post #18

It’s the checking part that’s the bigger issue to me. Speaks to some weapons grade incompetence at highest levels of government Sending passport scans to random sleezy websites that are likely not even under British jurisdiction is beyond insane

I think that is the point... Like most things UK government related, this is about what is best for us, and what is best for us, is no porn, and no privacy.

Handing over details to sleazy websites is never going to happen. Everyone is going to use a VPN. That's the point. Next year, maybe the year after the government will concede that age verification didn't work and more needs to be done. Then they come for your VPN.

The BBC, always the mouthpiece of the UK government is already laying the groundwork [0].

I know how tinfoil hat this sounds, but at this point, its not a conspiracy, its just how the government that created and sold nudge units [1] operates. It's decades of thinking "they won't do that" then watching them do it.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team

edit: spelling

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by diggan »

laurent_du wrote: post #21

> The image attached to this blog post is a stock photo of a nude pregnant woman. Absolutely nothing sexual. How is this not sexual? The fact that it's a stock photo, or that the woman is pregnant, is irrelevant. It's very clearly a sexual picture.

Lots of people think any nudity is sexual, you included it would seem. Others draw a line between "this person is nude" and "this person is nude and sexually suggestive", I'm guessing that includes the author of the post.

Re: What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]

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Post by guappa »

anthk wrote: post #10
pmlnr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So could a lot of classic art, right?

As an European with non-censored History books in my teenage years, that nudity was... boring. Women just lying in a bench with... dull, bland, faded out colours. I would need far more to get laid.

My anthology book had a few pages from Ulysses by Lob & Pichard. I went to a catholic school.
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