To tell you that from midnight, you'll have to upload ID to watch porn???!!!

I'm really pleased about this. It may not be perfect but it will certainly prevent young children stumbling across stuff. I expect the majority of people who aren't happy are male 'but it's not completely perfect' bleat, bleat, bleat.

If you have any ideas how to enforce a law against looking at porn online or offline e.g. magazines (yes Iceland made that illegal too) I'm sure the Icelandic authorities would be glad to hear it.

Even if it were possible to be enforced and LE chose to enforce it I'm not sure it would be in a country's best interest to give 70% of the population a criminal record.

@youreactinglikeafunmum
Apologies if said already, but you don't need to upload your ID. You can verify via your primary email address so long as it has your age in the settings

Very many chn won’t and that’s the point. If it’s harder they will be deterred.

inextricably linked with rape, abuse and an increase of dangerous and shit sex

And these are the guys that are now legally required to have access to bank details, personal information, or at the very least, a photo.

Protecting young people’s minds.

Protecting their minds perhaps, but forcing them to hand their personal data to some pretty nasty people.

Finally something being done to try to stop easy access. Protecting young people’s minds. It’s a start.

I don't understand the thinking that because any barrier to children having free access to horrendous images will never be totally impenetrable, that there is no point putting any barriers in place.

This will make it more difficult for children to access porn. This is a good thing.

Back in the days of sex shops and hedge porn teenagers did not believe that choking and anal sex were a normal part of a sexual relationship. And I never saw stories in the press about adult men raping actual babies.

Easy, instant, and anonymous access to images of constantly escalating depravity has not been good for society.

As well as a VPN, you could also use the Tor Browser to be anonymous. You don't get targetted ads and your browsing history will not be sold.

I love sex. Just don't love the Porn industry which is inextricably linked with rape, abuse and an increase of dangerous and shit sex particularly for girls and women.

How will they have access to "worse stuff"?

Kids after a quick hand shandy aren't using the dark web 😅

It's intended to put a complicated and annoying barrier in place to stop the majority of underage people casually accessing content.

Obviously anyone determined to see boobs will find a way to see boobs, as they have since the dawn of time.

Not quite sure what this is intended to achieve. Kids will use VPNs or go onto the dark web. They will still have access! Potentially to worse stuff...

The time was long ago to invest. Unless you mean buy a VPN for personal use? In which case, it is never too late.

Exactly.

Weird that you make women against porn out to be against sex. Let me put you straight. I love sex. Can't get enough of it. Was pretty wild in my time. Outdoor sex, sex on the beach ( noone else was on the beach it was 4am) . I even banged a stranger in the back of his van once at a rave. I masturbate daily, can't be arsed with men at the moment, life's a bit full on. However I've ALWAYS been against porn. Do you understand that sex isn't porn?

What about my unrealistic ideas that every time I called a plumber out he'd be a 6'2 tanned Adonis packing equipment so cumbersome he could barely walk straight unassisted?

In reality, last time we had a leaky tap my other half spent three hours in there watching 'Changing Washers for Dummies' YouTube videos on a phone propped on his beer belly, flooded half the downstairs bathroom then rang his dad for moral support.

Yes. The legally enshrined ability to steal viewers personal data will be an additional revenue stream, it will make porn more profitable, not less.

Agreed. I think the OP’s attitude is immature, frankly

I think we forget that there used to be regulation of porn which did not infringe on freedom of speech or create a slippery slope; and its widespread availability to all and sundry has only resulted in bad consequences.

Only the other day I was saying to my son how things were better in the olden days, when you had to go to a sex shop to get properly dirty movies and magazines. I presume these places still exist for OP??

Opera has a VPN button so easy to avoid giving personal data to porn sites. (The dodgiest of dodgy sites, IMHO.)

Terrible piece of legislation.

@youreactinglikeafunmum

It’s maybe a good insensitive to reevaluate your porn consumption. I watched the pornhub Netflix doc and it stopped me using free sites.

Good female run and centred porn is available behind a paywall . Bellesa, Frolicme and Erica Lust are available amongst others. Also sites like make love not porn are feel more ethical.

I ended going the whole way and turning to Audioporn as it doesn’t involve anyone’s body. I use Bloom stories which is pretty hot and lots of other interesting features like being able to sync with some toys (Lovense)

Your afternoons may actually improve 😳

I think this is a good thing OP.
I really do. I have concerns about what porn is doing to our society and I think making it less readily accessible is going to be quite useful.

VPNs get around it with no photo id needed.

Fake IDs are being shown to work

Very few people are arguing that porn isn't harmful.

This law will do nothing, absolutely nothing, to protect the women in the industry. Porn will still be produced and consumed

Maybe consider a new hobby. Oh and consider that the porn industry as a whole is based on the abuse of women. Just a thought.