While the Internet has made porn ubiquitous, it has also thrown the industry into severe decline.
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
Opinion | Can There Be Good Porn? (Published 2018)
I never wanted the responsibility of shaping young minds. Now it’s keeping me up at night.
The Future of Sex Work Slams Up Against Big Tech
As influencers peddle more sexually explicit content, Big Tech's biggest platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter—are increasing restrictions.
Bringing Sexy Back
Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.
AI-Generated Grandma Porn Is Flooding the Internet
Hundreds of AI GILF erotica are flooding Xvideos and Manyvids.
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.
100 years of whatever this will be
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
Reddit recently started censoring all nsfw nudity subreddits from r/all ever sin... | Hacker News
No, it's not different at all. Plenty of people see porn as "manipulating people's persectives to harm"; in fact Apple is doing it almost precisely because that's the mainstream opinion.
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
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.
The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
The main changes that will happen is due to regulators being intensively focused on ‘protecting the children’. So more labels on adult content and more divisions between people who identify as minors and people posting adult content. They continue to add to the list - gov.uk/government/news/new-laws-to-t…
New laws to target online abuse and pornography
www.gov.ukPorn, 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
