U.K. media regulator Ofcom, the government authority tasked by the recently enacted Online Safety Act with online content restriction enforcement, issued on Tuesday its first guidance to adult websites regarding age verification.
Days before the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the U.K.’s Foreign Office and state departments around the world are reminding traveling soccer fans about the country’s strict morality laws, including a blanket ban on sex toys.
Spain's Congress of Deputies moved forward Tuesday with a proposed new law backed by the ruling party, aiming to “prohibit pimping in all its forms” with the final aim to “abolish prostitution.”
Hong Kong police arrested two people on Monday over their participation in a nine-year-old explicit video depicting men in police uniforms, a 10-second clip of which went viral in April.
Members of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics of Canada’s House of Commons are now expressing concern about the committee’s treatment of witnesses during their hearings targeting MindGeek and Pornhub, after sex worker advocates who tried to speak to the committee on April 19 shared their negative experiences.
Within the space of several days recently, Utah legislators moved forward with a bill intended to explicitly criminalize the sharing of private sexually explicit photos without the consent of the people depicted, and at the same time defeated a proposal that would include the teaching of consent in the state’s sex education curriculum.
The Central Committee and the State Council of China’s ruling Communist Party of China (PCP) has just issued a document outlining the country’s “moral policy,” including an exhortation to “avoid pornography” in the name of “doing a good job in the moral construction of cyberspace.”
