France and Germany are pushing ahead with porn crackdown over age verification measures
France and Germany’s crackdown on online porn intensified at the beginning of September 2022, with courts in the two countries pushing ahead…
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Pornhub banned from Instagram, cutting off access to over 13 million followers
Pornhub’s Instagram account has been banned from the photo-sharing platform, where it had millions of followers, leading anti-Pornhub campaigners to claim a…
‘I’m used to this’: Twitch and Fortnite bans add to sex worker stigma debate
Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, received a flurry of online criticism last week (beginning Monday August 22) after a former adult…
OnlyFans blocks Russia-based creators (over payment problems, rather than morals)
OnlyFans has become one of the latest tech companies to implement a block on users in Russia, following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of…
‘You need us more than we need you’: Creators’ trust in OnlyFans eroded
OnlyFans has performed a screeching U-turn, reversing its ban on explicit content. But the farce has eroded trust in the site among…
Explicit content creators planning next move following OnlyFans ban
Following OnlyFans’ announcement last week that the pay-for-content site will ban explicit content from October 1, creators have slammed the company and…
Pornhub responds to petition calling for its closure
The behemoth porn portal Pornhub is facing calls for its closure after a campaign group claimed that it has failed its duty…
UK’s impending porn verification rules will make things worse, not better
Not too many people would disagree that access to porn should be restricted to adults, and that sometimes that isn’t the case at…
‘Go meet someone IRL’: Russia blocks two of world’s largest porn sites
Russia has once again blocked two of the world’s most popular porn sites – Pornhub and YouPorn (both of which are owned by a company called…
Court continues to rule sex toys illegal in US city, despite knowing decision is wrong
A panel of judges has ruled that the sale of sex toys in Sandy Springs, Georgia isn’t a constitutional right – and…
xHamster bans simulated rape and other non-consensual sex videos
xHamster has said that anyone attempting to upload or view porn videos that depict people having sex where it isn’t clear that…
Earlier in this tag
Etsy sex toy and porn purge: Marketplace wields sexual content axe, with changes coming into effect July 29
SEXTECHGUIDE vs. YouTube: Unpacking the double standards in adult content moderation
Google is cracking down on deepfake porn via Search throttling and advert bans
Mainstream platforms still aren’t sure how to deal with sex: Baldur’s Gate 3 players booted off Xbox network for nudity clips
Pornhub blocked in Virginia and Mississippi over age verification
Porn subreddits ‘go dark’ in protest of incoming third-party porn ban (and other changes)
Utah Pornhub block leaves fans scrambling for VPNs
Imgur says goodbye to sexually explicit content (unless it’s arty)
Iraq blocks ‘all’ porn sites after years of faltering censorship efforts
‘Obscene, objectionable’: Two women given jail sentences for importing sextech products
Nintendo reportedly bans ‘uncensored boobs’ on all its consoles
India blocks Pornhub and Brazzers in ‘obscene material’ crackdown
France and Germany are pushing ahead with porn crackdown over age verification measures
Pornhub banned from Instagram, cutting off access to over 13 million followers
‘I’m used to this’: Twitch and Fortnite bans add to sex worker stigma debate
OnlyFans blocks Russia-based creators (over payment problems, rather than morals)
‘You need us more than we need you’: Creators’ trust in OnlyFans eroded
Explicit content creators planning next move following OnlyFans ban
Pornhub responds to petition calling for its closure
UK’s impending porn verification rules will make things worse, not better
‘Go meet someone IRL’: Russia blocks two of world’s largest porn sites
Court continues to rule sex toys illegal in US city, despite knowing decision is wrong
xHamster bans simulated rape and other non-consensual sex videos
Story arcs covering this tag
Long-running editorial threads we keep updating as new evidence lands.
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
SEXTECHGUIDE has tracked age verification as a live policy battleground since 2016, from the UK's Digital Economy Act delays and eventual collapse…
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Coverage thread Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
Eight years of coverage tracking image-based sexual abuse from DeepNude's brief viral run through today's nudify apps, following the law as it…
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Coverage thread Payment Processors vs Adult Games
What started in 2021 as isolated confusion over Steam's adult content rules, with studios like Holodexxx and Super Seducer 3 forced onto…
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