pokoko said: Yeah, that source means that I'm going to trust this about as much as an article from Infowars. "Gail Dines is affiliated with Culture Reframed, and is a feminist activist who writes and lectures about the harms of porn." |
I looked at the article and it isn't as bad as the sensationalist title would suggest. The only thing that has actually changed is that porn producers no longer have to record the ages of all their performers and share that information with the authorities whenever they want it as that was deemed to be unconstitutional.
Making porn featuring underage people is still fully illegal, nothing has changed there. It just seems like the burden of proof now lies with the authorities. It sounds like now if they want to prosecute somebody for producing porn with underage people it's their job to prove they were underage, not the porn company's job to prove they weren't.
Strictly speaking, it is worse as it could lead to some dodgy stuff going on with less obstacles now in place to prevent porn companies using underage actors, but it's certainly nowhere near as bad as the title is making it out to be.
Last edited by Ka-pi96 - on 26 August 2018