#especially concidering it's not a topic i'm not all that well versed on

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See like, weird thing is I can agree on more regulations for porn, I can understand people wanting to regulate it. but I know that because it’s a republican platform and that it says “for the children” that it’s going to be stupid and they are going to suggest stupid things. 

on the other side of that some people are going to go fully the opposite end of the spectrum which is also dangerous, you get some horror stories out of the porn industry even now.

I do think there needs to be regulations oh how sites present their porn though, like, rating systems and little things saying what will be in the video, like mandatory tags. I know porn sites kinda do that but not really in a content warning way. like, what is hardcore? what makes porn for women different? why is there not lesbian porn in that tag? Have a nice and neat website that is clearly defined you know? and there needs to be more of an effort to promote safe sex, communication, and consent in porn vids. I mean I know the point of some porn is not to have that but really it should be a bit clearer because porn is it’s own medium now with amateurs and all that, 

and people put up revenge porn and stupid shit like that which needs to stop. I mean, just something requiring that at the end they have the people say “I consent to this sexual video ‘___’ being put online at _____ and to the sexual acts-blah blah blah- we practiced sex safely by using/doing -blah blah-” would probably be handy as a law regulation thing, but as an advertisement thing would be great (you could include your site name and the address to it.), as well as would kind of show sex workers as people and help prevent the theft of their content. I get it’s not a super realistic solution, and it sounds kind of like the end of a youtube video but I do think it could be and idea towards an actually workable idea. in the worst case scenario it could help in legal disputes on if a contract was breached during the development or release of a film.

as for the “for the children” sex education is the thing for that, but also I think it’d be a good idea to tell kids why sites ask if they are 18. that reason being it’s illegal to give a child pornographic material knowingly/unknowingly and that people can get in trouble even if they have know way of knowing you are the wrong age. I never knew that growing up, as well as the fact that even if you in your country are legal if it’s illegal somewhere else they can still get punished. That could probably help a little with kids going off into the online world, since they’d have a hard stop in case they felt over their heads. the law. 

Teaching kids about laws pertaining to them and sex would probably be a good thing as they got older and started to invesigate sexual stuff, especially since laws are kind of messy to find and not the first thing in the mind of a kid.

(I sorta learned the age of consent via those ‘I thought she was 18″ jokes, though I thought it was that’s how old you had to be before it was legal for anyone to have sex with each other until I was like, 15. I heard that is/was a real law in France though, and that it worked pretty well and created a more chill atmosphere to learning about sexuality.)