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 FCKSPACE launches as porn-friendly ‘Airbnb for adult creators’
FCKSPACE has launched in closed beta as a property rental platform for adult creators, offering porn-friendly hosts and searchable amenities like dungeons, after mainstream sites like Airbnb routinely ban performers from their accounts.
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News Pornhub 2025 Year In Review: Hentai, age verification and Coldplay
Pornhub's 2025 Year In Review shows age verification laws dropped the UK three places in traffic rankings and France to sixth, while Coldplay's viral CEO affair scandal drove a 388% spike in 'CEO' searches.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Porn company fined £1 million ($1.34M) by Ofcom for UK age verification breaches
Ofcom fined AVS Group Ltd £1 million ($1.34M) for failing to meet UK Online Safety Act age verification requirements, plus £50,000 for non-compliance with the investigation itself.
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News AI teddy bear toy pulled from sale after giving advice on bondage and sex positions
FoloToy pulled its AI teddy bear Kumma from sale after researchers found it explaining bondage, sex positions, and restraint knots to child users despite running on OpenAI's GPT-4o.
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News Character.AI bans open-ended chats for under-18s as tech giants split on erotic AI
Character.AI will block under-18 accounts from open-ended chatbot conversations by November 25, 2025, following lawsuits tied to teen deaths, as the industry splits between Microsoft's refusal of erotic AI and OpenAI and Grok's embrace
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Pornhub says UK traffic dropped 77% after age verification laws as users flock to non-compliant sites
Pornhub's UK traffic fell 77% after age verification kicked in under the Online Safety Act in July 2025, with parent company Aylo telling regulators users migrated to non-compliant sites rather than stopping.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage ChatGPT will guess your age to block sexual content and ‘flirtatious talk’
OpenAI is rolling out age-prediction in ChatGPT to automatically restrict sexual content and flirtatious responses for users it identifies as under 18, with ID-based verification for adults who want fewer restrictions.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Australia will require age checks for online porn from March 2026
Australia's eSafety Commissioner has mandated age verification for online porn from March 9, 2026, with fines of up to AUS $49.5 million per breach for non-compliant platforms.
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage UK watchdog investigates 22 porn sites over age verification failures
Ofcom has opened age verification investigations into 22 porn sites with over 8 million monthly UK visitors, targeting platforms that gained traffic after the July 25, 2025 compliance deadline.
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News Sex robots should be designed to give consent, says law researcher
Leiden University researcher Carlotta Rigotti argues sex robots should be programmed with affirmative consent cues under an EU AI Act code of conduct, not to protect robots but to counter harmful assumptions about consent
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News Meta retrains AI chatbots to prevent ‘sensual’ conversations with children
Meta is retraining its AI chatbots after an internal document revealed the company permitted romantic and sensual conversations between its AI and minors, including an eight-year-old.
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Roundup Dating appdates (Aug ’25): ‘Male’ rival to Tea app, browser history dating, Grindr’s zionist issue, and more
TeaOnHer leaked driver's licenses and selfies at launch, Tea faces a California lawsuit over its own breach, and UK dating apps including Feeld, Tinder, and Hinge rolled out age verification under the Online Safety
