Violent porn to be outlawed as minister warns young people are being harmed by ‘crazy’ content

No more granny porn!!

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Does this include Cork Hurling fans watching the team fall short again the year after plying brilliantly the whole way through?

I’m not a libertarian and misogyny/ violence towards women is awful and definitely normalized in a lot of porn. But my dilemma is how or who is judging what “crazy content” is?
I’ve experience with kink and bdsm and the structure of consent with agreed boundaries and safe words and framing of power exchange can change was a situation is or appears to be.
Ethical porn does exist and can be found, look on here on Reddit as an example of where self producing content creators can advertise content.
But where is the line? Everyone has their own idea of what they consider acceptable. I’m not being a right wing libertarian arguing in bad faith that because it’s difficult there should be no line btw.
But imagine having to review each porn video to make sure it meets or exceeds a specific criteria.
What’s that criteria? non consensual elements sure, extreme violence .. sure. but there is grey there like spanking or choking in consensual kink play? If done by algorithm.. how’s it going to know the difference? Will it not just impose the vanilla sex as a norm and anything else including LGTB effectively as deviant? Unintentional consequences are the way to hell unfortunately.
Also aren’t promoting concepts of dignity and self respect, why misogyny hurts men and women and then education on what applicable of consent in emotional and sexual relationships should look like more important than distinguishing then banning particular kinds of porn? certain porn should be banned or restricted to be clear but there ae some fuzzy lines here..

Maybe they should block generative AI since they’re always used to create horrible content.

Jokes aside, this is a pretty significant move.

More ‘hardcore’ content featuring violence has been trending a lot the last few years on adult sites.

I wouldn’t make the call to say it has left ‘fetish’ material but its significantly more common than it used to be. Porn is unrealistic in genreal but throw some extreme elements in on top and it makes for a very messed up idea of what sex should be.

This is also why sexual health is an important topic to discuss bc people who just became adults won’t know much outside of what they might have seen one time on the aul PH one time.

How they gonna enforce this. They can’t figure out anything involving IT

How do you actually administrate that ban

I agree with the idea that violent and extreme porn needs to be more regulated and less accessible, but in practice this is too hard to legislate. I think a better and more practical approach to protect women and girls is to educate on sex better and earlier. We need kids to have proper sex education before they get it from porn.

As someone who is in their early 20s, me and a lot of my friends have had men our age place their hands on our neck during intimate encounters. I think this is a direct result of the normalisation of choking in porn. Things like this need to be addressed more specifically, early on.

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>The Justice Minister is introducing new laws to make it a criminal offence to possess or distribute extreme and violent pornography.

I think people are ignoring this. He isn’t just banning it. He’s banning possession too which I believe is further than what other governments do where they ban access via the sites.

Seems absolutely bizarre to me that you can have a video of two consenting adults having sex and it will be illegal.

I have serious ethics concerns with a lot of the porn industry but I don’t think this is going to be helpful in any way, it’s just overreach