Often vilified as a weapon of male supremacy, pornography in fact has much to tell us about ourselves and our culture
What the Internet Is Teaching Young Men About Desire
When pornography becomes the default sex education, it reshapes how a generation learns about power, intimacy, and attention
From Non-consensual Pornography to Image-based Sexual Abuse: Charting the Course of a Problem with Many Names
Every day, people’s most intimate moments are recorded, uploaded and circulated online without their consent. This gross invasion of privacy – commonly known as ‘revenge pornography’ – has become p...
From Non-consensual Pornography to Image-based Sexual Abuse: Charting the Course of a Problem with Many Names
Every day, people’s most intimate moments are recorded, uploaded and circulated online without their consent. This gross invasion of privacy – commonly known as ‘revenge pornography’ – has become p...
Beware of AI Sex Cult In SF and Berkeley
531 votes, 156 comments. Hi, salacious title, I know. I’m linking articles from Time Magazine and the SF Standard And here is a thread with LOTS of…
Gender Performativity | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Making Sense of Modern Pornography
While the Internet has made porn ubiquitous, it has also thrown the industry into severe decline.
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Artworks exploring the nexus of queerness, the body, and technology
Sex Workers Describe the Instability—and Necessity—of OnlyFans
Creators of sexually explicit content talk about what it's like to rely on a platform that can just... change its policies, then change them back.
For teen girls victimized by ‘deepfake’ nudes, there is little recourse
The FBI has warned that technology used to create pornographic deepfake photos and videos was improving and being used for harassment and sextortion.
Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
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Sex Workers Built the Internet
An internet history that centers sex workers’ voices and experiences
Sex Workers Built the Internet
An internet history that centers sex workers’ voices and experiences
Porn, Adult Content, Sex Work, & NSFW Moderation
On Bluesky, the wider web, and why ATproto matters for the industry.
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Sex Workers Describe the Instability—and Necessity—of OnlyFans
The forced global adoption of puritanistic American cultural norms vis sexuality and nudity via app store/payment processor rules is one of the least-discussed free speech issues of the last decade and this lack of attention is going to hurt online expression so much in the years to come.
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I think also we cannot ignore the potential social and cultural ramifications of normalizing the demonification of anything adult or sexual The whole system is stacked against any sort of movement in the other direction and it's not something the porn industry can handle alone at this point
