Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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News Sweden criminalizes paying for online sex acts, putting live cam and OnlyFans users at risk of prison
Sweden's parliament passed a law effective July 1, 2025 criminalizing remote sex act purchases, putting cam site and OnlyFans users at risk of up to a year in prison.
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Roundup Dating appdates (May ’25): AI meets human matchmaking, Grindr selling drugs, Hinge longform love stories, and more
Grindr launched Woodwork, a telehealth erectile dysfunction service; Match Group cut 13% of staff amid falling paid subscribers; Raw exposed user data with no encryption despite claiming otherwise.
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News Dame removes ‘Trump Tariff’ charge but slams instability
Dame dropped its $15 Trump Tariff Surcharge after the 145% China tariff was suspended for 90 days, but CEO Alexandra Fine called the reprieve instability dressed up as relief.
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News We-Vibe Melt 2 adds physical controls, suction patterns and ‘smart silence’
We-Vibe's Melt 2 launches at $149, adding physical controls, six preset suction patterns, and a Smart Silence proximity sensor to the original Melt's app-only setup.
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News You can finally move around in VR porn: SexLikeReal to roll out 6DoF
SexLikeReal is partnering with BraindanceVR to roll out 6DoF volumetric VR porn, letting users physically move within scenes rather than watching from a locked position.
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News Real intimacy, real voices: Xounds’ beta app brings unfiltered erotic audio with consent at its core
Berlin sextech app Xounds launched its beta on iOS, offering user-generated erotic audio with AI-powered voice consent verification and a freemium model at €6.99 per month.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Undress.cc and US porn site investigated by Ofcom over new age verification rules
Ofcom has opened investigations into Undress.cc operator Itai Tech Ltd and US-based Score Internet Group LLC for failing to implement age verification under the UK's Online Safety Act, with fines of up to 10%
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News Legal scholars advocate criminalizing VR ‘rape’
Legal scholars Clare McGlynn and Carlotta Rigotti argue in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies that non-consensual sexual conduct in metaverse spaces should be criminalized and reframed as 'meta-rape'.
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News YouTube experiments with blurring thumbnails of ‘mature’ videos
YouTube is testing blurred thumbnails for videos flagged as sexually themed but within community guidelines, a move that could reshape how borderline content gets surfaced on the platform.
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Huge deepfake porn site ‘Mr Deepfakes’ has shut down and ‘will not be relaunching’
Mr Deepfakes, once the world's largest deepfake porn platform with 13 million monthly visitors, has shut down permanently, citing a critical service provider termination and data loss.
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Take It Down Act: Sharing non-consensual deepfake porn to become illegal in the US
The Take It Down Act passed US Congress on April 28, 2025, criminalizing non-consensual deepfake porn sharing and requiring platforms to remove flagged content within 48 hours.
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Roundup Dating appdates (April ’25): Big verification push, massive data leak, apps ‘officially’ stressful, and more
Tinder and Bumble expand mandatory ID verification, nearly 1.5 million images leaked from LGBTQ+ and kink dating apps built by M.A.D Mobile, and new research links dating app use to cortisol and dopamine dysregulation.
