The behemoth porn portal Pornhub is facing calls for its closure after a campaign group claimed that it has failed its duty of care in protecting under-age performers from appearing in content uploaded to the platform. A Change.org petition which currently has 300,000 signatures, claims that a 15-year-old girl, missing from home for over a […]
Apple has said it is “deeply concerned” by the European release of what is believed to be the first porn app to become available on the iPhone. Hot Tub is a new native app for iOS devices that lets you watch porn videos from sites such as Pornhub, xHamster and xVideos. The app says it […]
The landscape of erotic imagery is undergoing a seismic shift. Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the bedroom, not as a robotic lover, but as a powerful tool for generating hyper-realistic and customized ai-generated pornography. This development is not only disrupting the adult entertainment industry but also sparking a fierce debate about its artistic merit, ethical […]
A lawmaker has proposed a bill in Texas that would ban the sale of sex toys in business establishments deemed not to be “sexually orientated”, including supermarkets and pharmacies. The bill, HB 1549, was proposed by Republican state representative Hillary Hickland. It would see fines of up to $5,000 imposed if a company was found […]
The efforts of some major search engines to crack down on nonconsensual deepfake porn have arguably been undermined by a news investigation showing that they can point users to tutorials explaining how to make deepfakes. An investigation by Glamour Magazine showed that Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search also pointed users of the search engines […]
How should porn, sex and sextech-adjacent AI tools (and the content they can produce) be regulated? Should they be regulated by government and government-commissioned authorities at all? With the recent rise of AI-generated deepfake porn making news around the world, largely due to its nefarious use, these questions are also rising to the fore. Some […]