We have already told you about the British government's measures to protect children from online pornography, which include fines of millions of pounds and the blocking in the UK of sites that do not comply with the new rules. Now France is also preparing a crackdown on the online porn giants: Arcom, the French audiovisual and digital police, has asked the Paris Court of Justice to block the connection to several pornographic sites because of the lack of [...]

As in second-wave feminism, the issue of sexuality has returned to the forefront of girls' minds. Intensely practised in the 1970s, that territory was later abandoned in order to invest energies in other themes, first and foremost that of work. In the meantime, pornography has spread, especially since the birth of the web, reaching unimaginable levels of diffusion, heavily influencing the free search for pleasure of girls and adolescents. If for males the models borrowed from consumed pornography [...]

Carol Maltesi, the young woman brutally murdered and hacked to pieces by banker Davide Fontana, was killed five times. The first time, by the pornography industry -online and then also live shows- from which the girl had been captured during the lockdown to be able to provide for herself and her son, whom she had given birth to when she was just 20 years old. The second time by her tormentor, for whom we are looking for -as usual- reasons: he killed her [...].

The UK government plans to force users of online pornography sites to prove their age by credit card or other proof of age in order to gain access, to prevent children and teenagers from viewing such content. Sites could be blocked in the UK or fined millions of pounds if they do not comply with the new rules. Opponents have objected that the innovation could be used to track users' pornographic habits, but the government has assured [...]

Men who say no more to porn: apps and psychotherapy to help them Young men increasingly aware of the dangers of pornography. After the surge in porn consumption during the Lockdown, services to help men stop using porn are booming in the UK: from psychotherapy to apps that block sexual content. But addiction starts at a very young age During the Lockdown, pornography consumption surged: in March 2020, the website Pornhub, for example, recorded a sudden increase in traffic of more than 20%. [...]

In 2019, Italy passed a law punishing the crime of revenge porn (the dissemination of sexual images of a woman by her ex-partner on the internet), but the web has brought an even more dangerous weapon against women: sites that give the possibility to create fake revenge porn, i.e. fake pornographic images, photos or videos, from a common photo. Recently the Anglo-Saxon media have reported on a site - which we do not name - on [...].

What impact does pornography have on the viewer? Is it really just entertainment and fantasies to facilitate and 'enrich' masturbation, as defined by an increasing number of men, women and teenagers?

More than 90 feminist organisations from Spain and 12 countries have co-organised the 3rd Abolitionist March to be held this Saturday 8 May. It is promoted and organised since 2019 by Mujeres por la Abolición -Women for Abolition-, calls for the abolition of prostitution, pornography and reproductive exploitation (uterus for rent). The first edition took place in presence, in the neighbourhoods most affected by prostitution in Barcelona, with the collaboration of French comrades and the survivor Rosen Hicher. A historic day that has [...]

Milwaukee County Juvenile Court Judge Brett Blomme, backed by the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund for his nomination, has been arrested on seven counts of possession of child pornography. Brett Blomme, 37, is also the former president of the Cream City Foundation, an LGBTQ+ organisation known for promoting Drag Queen Story Hour, events in which men dressed up in women's clothing read fairy tales to children (there are also some in Italy, here an event sponsored by the [...]