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Dear How to Do It,
My question has to do with casually viewing porn on the internet. If you believe the New York Times, child pornography is basically everywhere. As I am someone whose tastes run to younger-looking, smaller-breasted women (but no kids!), I am concerned about the possibility of accidentally viewing something illegal. Just how hard (or easy) is it to run across child porn? If I stick to sites like Pornhub or xHamster, am I safe?
—No Kids
Dear No Kids,
This is one of the best questions this column has received. It’s so simple, yet I couldn’t find clear information no matter where I looked, and its answer points to a moral muddiness—if not flagrant hazards—we are willing to tolerate for the sake of democratized access to pornography.
The short answer is: You cannot be sure of the legality of any individual video on tube sites, especially if it’s an amateur video. To avoid illicit material, your best bet is to purchase professional porn.
Child sex abuse material (the term experts prefer over “child pornography”), like you read about last fall in the New York Times, is more prevalent on the dark web than the so-called clear net, or publicly accessible internet, but it has certainly appeared on mainstream sites.
Here are three different reports—one from 2018, one from 2019, and one from 2020—about arrests of alleged abusers spurred by the upload of child sexual abuse material to Pornhub. Last year, the Sunday Times reported that an investigation showed that material featuring people under the age of 18 had remained on Pornhub for three years.
This is not to single out Pornhub. The New York Times reported that platforms as wide-ranging and popular as Facebook, Bing, and Dropbox have been used to disseminate child sex abuse material. BuzzFeed recently published a story about questionable (if not illicit) material showing up on TikTok in India, and I’ve read stories about Snapchat being used to exchange child sex abuse material as well (like this one—link is decidedly NSFW, and the story within is harrowing). Sure, there’s a Pornhub problem here, but more broadly, there is an internet problem here.
Tube sites are simply less regulated than the sites of official porn studios. Most professional porn companies adhere to a federal law that requires producers to verify and keep records of the age of their models. But a court in 2018 held that the law only applies to primary producers, as in those who make porn, and that it violates the First and Fourth Amendments when applied to “secondary” producers like distributors and online tube sites, and so they are not required to keep such records on file. (The Supreme Court has not definitively resolved the issue.) Reached by email, First Amendment lawyer Larry Walters said that intermediary platforms “should not be burdened with the obligation to verify the age of models depicted in content uploaded by third-party users,” because “doing so places blame on the wrong party, and stifles online innovation.” He compared the sites’ responsibility with that of a telephone company, which provides a service that could be used for illegal activity through no fault of the company.
Nonetheless, Pornhub vice president Corey Price told me through Pornhub’s communications director that when uploading photos and videos, “users must verify the content and assure they are 18 years of age and have on file records certifying that all models contained in the content are over 18 years of age.” That to me sounds like an honor system. (Price did not respond to a follow-up question about that through the communications director.) Price added that every video uploaded to Pornhub is manually reviewed by a human. It is also scanned by “A.I. technology to compare all uploaded content to a third-party content database to verify for digital fingerprints on noncompliant content.” But just this month, Vice’s Motherboard published an investigative piece that reported lapses in Pornhub’s fingerprinting methodology for identifying and removing illicit material made by the company Girls Do Porn.
“Child sexual abuse imagery is in direct violation of our Terms of Service,” Price wrote. “We take the protection of our community very seriously. We are also continuously striving to improve these processes and are currently working on implementing additional safety features to this end.”
Alex Hawkins, vice president at xHamster, a similar tube site, outlined a similar process of human and bot review. “Because we’re very aggressive in our patrol of content, the criminals know not to use us,” he wrote in an email. He said attempts to upload illegal content on xHamster are rare: “We only see about one attempt to upload illegal content in every 20,000 videos.”
“If anything, we’re overly cautious,” he added.
“If we’re not able to verify the age of someone in an amateur video, or if we sense anything suspicious, the content does not appear on the site. Similarly, words, categories, subjects that might refer to illegal content cannot even appear in a description.”
Shelley Allwang, the program director of the Child Victim Identification Program at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, told me that by cataloging metadata, the organization is able to generate a unique fingerprint (or “hash value”) for each piece of known child sex abuse material. The organization works with law enforcement agencies, domestically (on local, state, and federal levels) and abroad, which send it seized material for cataloging. NCMEC makes these “hash values” available to companies so they can identify offending material. The rep for xHamster said the company had not worked with NCMEC but is “open to it.
” Pornhub declined to discuss this on the record.
You can probably see how the system in place, while thorough enough to prevent child sexual abuse material from being common on clear net sites, isn’t perfect. (Keep in mind that “children” refers to anyone under 18 and that there are pubescent victims in known child abuse material.) With a safety net that relies on scanning for matches with precise metadata of preexisting videos, material falls through the cracks.
Allwang reminded me that NCMEC is a reactive organization. Its success in tracking down and eliminating child sexual abuse material depends in part on participation of members of the public who come across it. Allwang encouraged people to report any suspicious material to NCMEC’s CyberTipline.
“Even if they’re not totally sure, even if they just have a sneaking suspicion, or the feeling that it might be, we would way rather get those reports in,” she said. (Minors who are aware of abuse videos featuring themselves can reach NCMEC via its Get Help Now site.)
I’m not singling you out or shaming you for your porn-viewing habits, reader, but the taste in younger-looking women that you describe having does complicate things in some people’s opinion. As Daphne Young, chief communications officer of the child abuse prevention nonprofit Childhelp, told me, “You’ve broached on a really difficult topic because there is a culture of pornography trafficking in an underage aesthetic (and potential sex-trafficked victims being abused on camera) that seeks to conceal itself with obfuscating language.” She said that when she was part of a child welfare think tank, the technology for flagging child sexual abuse material was impressive, but “widespread usage of such technology is still in a discovery/solutions phase.
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XHamster countered that most of the material on its site featuring younger-looking performers is legal, and not barely. “There are plenty of people who work in [the younger-looking model] niche, and it’s not uncommon to find that someone in pigtails is actually 30,” xHamster’s Hawkins said. “Once a video is flagged, we can then work with the uploader to get proof of age or, if we don’t hear back from them, take it down.”
Researching this question, I thought back to Traci Lords, who was one of the most successful performers in porn in the mid-’80s. After the FBI was tipped off that she had been underage while filming the majority of her catalog, her movies were pulled from shelves and destroyed. Producers were arrested. Some thought porn, as a medium, would never recover.
The message rang through our culture: Having a 16-year-old girl appear in porn was unacceptable. Yet we now live in a world where we know, even if we don’t see it and just read the news, that child sex abuse material sometimes ends up on wildly popular tube sites like Pornhub (to say nothing of other illegal content like revenge porn or hidden-cam videos, which are common). It’s a world where you don’t even have to be looking for porn to come across this material. This risk does nothing, it seems, to scare the sites’ audiences away, and so for the sake of free porn, or even for the sake of freedom of expression, we are essentially shrugging our shoulders.
Dear How to Do It,
My wife and I have been married for three years now and together for five.
We have a great sex life that has its ups and downs but is always satisfying and ultimately enhances our relationship. We both identify as bisexual, even though neither of us have never been with another partner of the same sex.
The question I have involves an accidentally newfound talent and kink of sorts. We were recently playing with some new toys and discovered that I have an uncanny ability to deep-throat. We’re talking a 12” toy almost all the way down. We were both shocked and pleasantly surprised. It really enhanced our fun and turned me on in a way I’ve never experienced before. I want to try to incorporate this more into our sex life, but my wife is a little gun shy about using a toy like a strap on. Are there any things you’d recommend to help her be more comfortable in this new role or position? She’s never had a penis and seems frustrated with using one.
We have had numerous discussions about what we consider our limits and ways to make this fun for the both of us, but I think I’m too close to the situation and need some outside advice. What would you recommend?
—Big Gulp
Dear Big Gulp,
Congrats on your inner cavern. It should serve you well. What will not serve you well is forcing this issue. Your wife is uncomfortable with the idea, so respect that. If she had written to me to ask how to get used to a strap-on, my answer might be different, but it sounds like she’s not that into it. Play with the toy without strapping it to her body. Let her dictate how much further she is willing to take things, if at all.
Here’s another angle, if it hasn’t made it into your talks about this yet: Why don’t you find a hung guy to invite over for a three way so that you can serve him well together? That, I think, is at least worth a discussion.
Dear How to Do It,
I’m a married middle-aged woman. Like many of your other questioners, I’m not that happy with my sex life. My husband and I have sex once or twice a week, on the weekend mornings. It’s pretty much scheduled. We usually have to watch a sex video so I can get off. I find getting off hard work, and not that satisfying. However, I do get off frequently, with manual stimulation from my spouse.
I keep myself in good shape, and my spouse is happy with our sex life. I go down on him quite a bit to keep him happy. He thinks since I do get off, everything is fine. He’s a bit smaller than average down there and I never orgasm from intercourse.
The problem I have is that he doesn’t do anything I prefer besides the manual stim. He has a short bristly goatee, which is irritating, and he doesn’t like to go down on me anyway. He doesn’t like to kiss at all, except for pecks. He doesn’t touch me very much except right on my genitals. I’m sure there are things I could be doing better than I do, but he doesn’t talk about it. When I try to tell him what I like, he says something like, “I know I do everything wrong.” I try to talk to him when we are alone either before or after sex. I try to couch it in positive terms like “I would like it if you would do X or Y.” He says he doesn’t like French kissing because he has trouble breathing, but I can’t see how that could be a problem for five or 10 seconds.
I think it’s some sort of germ phobia. I feel really stuck. Other than the sex, our relationship is fine. We have disabled kids, and a divorce would be traumatic. I had a short affair 10 years ago, stopped because I felt guilty, but the sex was much better, so I know it’s not me. Any advice? I think he would feel offended if I asked to see a counselor. Since I do get off, I’m sure he would think I’m being unreasonable. He’s very defensive. Often, I’d just rather read a book than have sex with him.
—No Kissing Allowed
Dear No Kissing Allowed,
It’s troubling that he’s happy when you clearly are not, and that suggests you two have a real disconnect in communication (if not empathy). Why isn’t he reading your signs? Why is he content when you’ve expressed that you are not? Why does he get passive aggressive to shut you down when you suggest solutions? That’s not what a partnership is supposed to be.
This problem is bigger than an advice column has the capacity to remedy, but I have two suggestions that I hope will point you in a proactive direction. I want you to think back to when you first got together. Was sex enjoyable then? Was there something you both did at the beginning that you have since ceased? If not, and you proceeded with the relationship despite the red flags, why did you do that? Thinking back to the reasons you went forth with this obviously imperfect union may give you some perspective.
It is not unreasonable to wish for connected sex with your partner, so let me assure you that you’re not unreasonable. If anything, you’ve been too reasonable in your attempts to talk about this. If he won’t hear it, if he keeps casting himself as the victim of his own incompetence as a way to deflect accountability, I recommend choosing blunt words to make your point of view unmistakable. You have to get through to him. You could use some of the language you wrote in to this column while assuring him that more effort from him could help your situation. (Be careful with this: “I’d rather read a book than have sex with you” may be useful in getting your message across, but if it gives him a target for self-pity to bemoan the entire situation as hopeless, it will do more harm than good.) And don’t allow your intuition to determine your course of treatment, either—you think he’d be offended if you asked to see a counselor, but this is something you should know for sure. Your satisfaction is worth the risk.
Dear How to Do It,
Technical question here. I’m a lady, sans prostate. I gather that prostate stimulation is apparently on par with clitoral stimulation, but I haven’t tried it on a guy yet. What exactly do you do to get it started? Other than sticking a finger up there and being gentle, I’m really clueless. I feel like when guys are fingering a lady, they thrust in and out instead back and forth. What would you recommend for a newbie?
—Fingering Virgin
Dear Fingering Virgin,
The prostate isn’t quite a clit cognate—that’s more like the penis head—and stimulation of it alone is not usually enough to make most guys come, at least in my experience. (There are some out there, though, and they tend to announce their ability.) But in combination with penile stimulation, prostate stimulation can take sex from good to fantastic. It can also be so intense that it causes discomfort, so I don’t recommend a lot of thrusting unless it’s specifically requested. What you want to do, while paying close attention to your partner’s comfort (as he expresses it verbally and with his body language), is insert a finger up his butt and feel along the wall of his rectum adjacent to the front of his body. Curl your finger slightly, as though you’re pointing at his dick from the inside, and locate a knob that feels about the size of a walnut. (It’ll be right around where you’d imagine the root of his dick would be.) Just move your finger around gently—swirl, tap, lightly trace it. He may feel like he has to pee when you find it, and this may be disconcerting to him if he’s never experienced it. It also may be the best feeling of his life. Keep connected and communicating to maximize his pleasure.
—Rich
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I’m a woman in her mid-30s who’s been married for five years to my husband. Things are, on almost every count, good between us. But there is one issue he keeps raising with me, over and over, and it’s starting to drive me nuts: He’s terrified we’ll become one of those couples whose intimacy dies and never has sex the longer we stay together. We are not this couple. But he reads forums about “dead bedrooms” and talks about friends who never have sex with their spouses and are tempted to cheat. I try to reassure him, but his constant doubts are starting to make me anxious about the future too. He’s even said he thinks some of his friends are justified in cheating. It’s starting to feel like he’s already resenting me for future wrongs I have no intention to commit.
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Under new child protection laws, porn websites such as Pornhub and xHamster are being banned in Germany.
Why? Because the site’s pretty much nonexistent cooperation in implementing proper age verification is why. Everyone is apparently ‘over 18’ just by clicking a button.
83 million Germans are soon going to be heartbroken. The proposed porn blocking order will allegedly be issued in the upcoming weeks by the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media.
A.k.a these pornographic websites becoming inaccessible, and strategies on how to block pornhub are being implemented.
The CPMM is responsible for enforcing a broad treaty unanimously agreed upon by all German states in child protection.
This proposition has arisen from an ongoing campaign to have not only Pornhub and xHamster implement proper age verification checks, but all pornographic websites.
Officials are currently taking action with a focus on four major websites.
Chairman Marc Jan Eumann of KJM (Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz) has refused confirmation on what websites are under the spotlight. However, according to German reports, the cases are against Pornhub, XHamster, YouPorn and MyDirtyHobby.
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These four websites, in addition to many other pornographic websites, had been accused of failing to introduce systems that enable age verification.
It has long been addressed that websites that Pornhub perpetuate child abuse and sex trafficking rings.
Dr. Tobias Schmid the German State Media Authority director just told Pornhub and Mindgeek “age verify or get blocked in Germany”
I love it when government officials are not afraid to stand up to mega-predators making money off of mass child abuse. #Badass #Traffickinghub pic.twitter.com/Qm8GrKNYv0
— Laila Mickelwait (@LailaMickelwait) October 28, 2020
In addition to Germany, other regulators around the world including Canada, France, the U.K, and a handful of U.S states are also investigating more measures directed at preventing minors from accessing ‘adult material’ online.
It has only been since 2019 that they have been forcefully trying to get pornographic websites to introduce adequate age checks.
According to reports, the owners of xHamster failed to respond to this. Because of their lack of cooperation, the site’s blocking has been ordered to commence in the coming weeks. What is xhamster going to do about this? They probably can’t do much. How many countries is xhamster available in at present? Well, reportedly, more than 30 million people visit the site every day, so we’d say a lot.
But, it isn’t as simple as it sounds.
Basically, this would mean issuing a blocking order to Germany’s (and Europe’s) major web and tele providers; Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, O2 and 1&1, requesting that they block the accused websites for people trying to access it in Germany.
From this, these German web and tele companies could potentially challenge such orders by approaching the country’s legal system, resulting in the age verification legal battle extending for years.
Germany is set to ban Pornhub & other prominent porn sites
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This could likely happen given that this isn’t the first time internet providers were asked to block websites voluntarily and refused those requests:
“We’ve already talked to them, they are not happy,” Eumann said.
Censorship of certain porn sites in different countries isn’t a new approach. In 2017 the Philippines government censored Pornhub immediately after the website revealed data that Filipinos spent more time on the pornographic website than any other nationality.
Here in Australia, it’s been recommended that digital IDs should be used to access pornography. We all know a lot of people aren’t going to consent to this.
Despite this not being new at all, Germany’s proposed actions have been considered one of the most drastic measures thus far, with critics accusing this as censorship.
The co-founder of adult site Lustery and curator of the Porn Film Festival Berlin, Paulita Pappel, has commented that such actions are ‘comparable to China’s censorship’ and could set the pornography industry back decades in terms of its reputation and distribution, she said.
Pappel also noted her worry on the focus of age verification as it can filter down adult companies with fewer resources to implement them:
“Smaller companies, queer performers of colour, these are the people that are going to suffer the most.”
All we can do is wait to see what happens with Germany and Europe’s regime on censorship and website usage.
Maybe it’s time to start going old school and scouring eBay for vintage porno mags?
6 months on
Half a year later, Germany is continuing their crackdown on adult sites that do not integrate effective age-verification systems. The government has extended its online safety bill to target all porn sites, not just Pornhub and xHamster.
This crackdown has also extended to platforms such as Twitter. As of March 2022, the platform has been made to block over 60 adult accounts. This is because German law requires an age verification system for adult content, and Twitter does not operate with this system.
When trying to view blocked Twitter accounts, a message pops up saying the page is being “withheld” due to “legal demand”. Pictures, bio, posts and any other customisable features will be blank.
Hey Germany, instead of blocking porn on Twitter maybe do something useful like ban the AfD and NPD?
— Kitkat (@Katyavixen) February 18, 2022
This censorship has faced criticism for three key reasons.
Firstly, because it rings true to Pappel’s claim. Blocking adult workers is going to affect smaller companies and minorities the most.
Secondly, many observers believe the law lacks transparency and is fueled by conservative values, not protecting minors. The law could also be secretly harnessed by the government to track users’ porn habits. Without further transparency from Germany, we can’t be certain – but it’s definitely a possibility that data is being collected.
Here’s the bottom line – is pornhub legal in the way they have been choosing to operate? Most certainly not.
Neglect of protection of minors: xHamster porn portal threatens to block the network: ru_detv_us - LiveJournal
Children can easily access hardcore pornography on the Internet. Most pages have no age verification at all - an unacceptable situation for media wardens. So far, however, companies have felt safe from them. But for the provider, it becomes more and more difficult.
The highly developed porn portal xHamster is threatened with network blocking due to ignoring the protection of children and young people. “At xHamster we have a final notice against which there can be no remedy,” said Tobias Schmid, director of a state media agency in North Rhine-Westphalia. nine0004
The other operators of the portal currently continue to file claims against the notices affecting them with the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia. The situation with the law is "pretty clear" in terms of its powers: "It's pornography, no age verification, German law applies," Schmid said.
Since xHamster has so far refused to communicate with the supervisory authority and has not implemented any measures to make its offer legal, the network operator has been approached. These include Vodafone and Telekom: “We have informed you that there is illegal content on your networks that needs to be blocked and we are currently listening to it. Then we will make a decision." nine0004
“We only sell access units technically if they are required by law,” a Telekom spokesman said upon enquiry. Vodafone said: "We are currently working on a legal assessment." The decision of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court of 1 December will be taken into account in the response to the State Media Office. The court recognized the correctness of the state institution.
xHamster wants to find a solution
Upon request, xHamster announced that blocking the network is "far from optimal." Through them, young people will only switch to smaller sites where they will encounter more extreme content. The company is ready to work with the German authorities. Currently, age verification is the only way to keep young people away from adult content. This technology can be used. But it needs to be done across the industry. nine0004
"I hardly know anyone we've sent more letters and emails to than xHamster, and we've gotten exactly zero replies," said Schmid, on the other hand. However, the portal may at any time comply with the law and thus terminate legal proceedings against itself.
He was "somewhat surprised" that one of the network operators hired a law firm to ask for a significant extension of the deadline and "did not assume his social and political responsibility sooner," Schmid said. In the end, we are talking about the danger to children and adolescents. nine0004
"There is no freedom of speech, but there are illegal practices"
It would be unfortunate if they remained defenseless for months. “At the end of the day, this is clearly illegal content. If that doesn't work now, the legislature should take another look at it,” Schmid said. “Today, every 12-year-old has a smartphone and can switch from Tiktok to these offerings.” Previously, access to the network was through a home computer. “But today, parents no longer have access to it.” The situation has simply changed. "This is not about free speech, but about a business model that uses illegal practices." nine0004
A large number of parents in Germany seem to support this procedure, as shown by a representative public opinion poll conducted by the Children's Fund: 93 percent of the parents surveyed were in favor of reliable age verification and harsher penalties for violations.
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