Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Social Media
Recent reporting, brand coverage, ongoing story threads, and source-backed context from SEXTECHGUIDE.
Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
46 entries in this thread.
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Roundup Dating appdates (Feb ’25): Instagram is the new Tinder, ‘carouseling’ trend, and meatballs
Instagram now accounts for 22% of messages uploaded to Rizz's AI dating assistant, outpacing Tinder and Hinge, while a 45-study Australian review links dating app use to body image and mental health concerns.
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News Fears about Meta censoring women’s health content under Trump regime
Meta's algorithmic enforcement is blocking women's health content on Facebook and Instagram, with abortion pill providers and pelvic floor device makers reporting suspensions while erectile dysfunction ads run unchecked.
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Analysis Camming on the slide? New creator report offers snapshot of industry today
SWR Data's 2024 State of the Creator Report finds live camming dropped 15 percent among adult creators since 2022, while fan site earnings, fetish content, and creator age all rose.
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Roundup From VR passthrough to polar bears: 20 of 2024’s biggest sextech happenings
SEXTECHGUIDE rounds up 20 defining sextech moments from 2024, spanning VR passthrough advances, deepfake crackdowns, Pornhub's US state blockades, and products ranging from AI masturbators to a polar-bear vibrator.
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Guide Bluesky adult content: Every feature that keeps your feed exactly how you want it
Bluesky's content controls give adult creators and users meaningful moderation tools, from granular content filters to quote-post management, that most social platforms have historically withheld.
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News Etsy sex toy and porn purge: Marketplace wields sexual content axe, with changes coming into effect July 29
Etsy is banning genital-contact sex toys and explicit adult content from its platform effective July 29, 2024, citing user safety and evolving industry standards.
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Opinion SEXTECHGUIDE vs. YouTube: Unpacking the double standards in adult content moderation
YouTube permanently banned SEXTECHGUIDE's channel in June 2024 with no explanation, illustrating how platform moderation systematically disadvantages small adult-adjacent publishers while legacy brands face no equivalent scrutiny.
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News Twitter/X new porn rules: Explicit content is now only officially allowed if it’s flagged
X formally acknowledged its adult content policy for the first time, requiring creators to flag explicit posts with content warnings or face automatic restrictions.
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News 4channers’ Duolicious dating app is as ballistic as you’d expect
Duolicious, a 4chan-adjacent dating app with 50,000 users, has gone viral for profiles featuring far-right politics, violent messaging, and widespread catfishing.
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News X introduced porn and nudity content warnings (but it’s not really working)
X made content warnings mandatory for nudity and porn in January 2024, but a same-day search turned up untagged hardcore content while innocuous posts got flagged instead.
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News Twitch switch makes sexual content rules less of a hitch
Twitch updated its sexual content policy to consolidate rules and permit deliberate depictions of breasts, buttocks, and pelvic regions, then almost immediately reversed its short-lived allowance of fictionalized nudity after the platform was flooded
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Opinion Pornhub’s righteous Terms of Service podcast has more moaning than meaning
Pornhub's new podcast Terms of Service, hosted by Asa Akira and Alexzandra Kekisi, frames the platform as a victim of censorship while sidestepping its documented history of illegal content and copyright abuse.
