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  • This is probably a very controversial view, but I think we need "teenage friendly" porn (by which I absolutely do not mean teenage actors! Just intended for viewing by teenagers as well).

    If you have porn which shows no exploitation, is always fully consensual, no violence and closer to reality, then I think the harm it does to teenagers will be much less severe.

    You don't really need an age verification system (although I'd not be against a truly anonymous one, e.g. the verifying site doesn't know what service you're signing up to, and just provides a token with proof of age), but by default if you're not logged in you get the safer kind of content. And when creating an account it asks your age. If teenagers know they are allowed even when underage, they'd have little incentive to lie.

    • when creating an account it asks your age.

      Why would anyone create an account when they can just go to some random website on the far side of the world that doesn't follow that system to get whatever they're looking for? Even when people got their pornography from magazines the stereotype was of even supposedly mature adults being weird about it — wearing dark glasses, going to the 7-11 in a part of town where they won't be recognized, and looking all furtive and embarrassed with their copy of Hustler at the till. Vilifying porn and trying to make people register for some kind of age verification service or anything else in order to see it is just going to make people even more secretive about it just like the good old days, and everyone will go to some dodgy unlicensed website hosted by a shell company in the Seychelles instead of the strictly regulated law-abiding Canadian purveyors.

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