Call for evidence on pornography regulation, legislation and enforcement

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https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/pornography-regulation-legislation-and-enforcement

The government wants to ensure that any legislation and regulation operates appropriately for all pornographic content, and that the criminal justice system have the tools they need to respond to online illegal pornographic material, and exploitation and abuse in the industry.

The Independent Pornography Review involves a comprehensive assessment of the legislation, regulation and enforcement of online and offline pornographic content, and is overseen by Independent Lead Reviewer Baroness Gabby Bertin.

The review will take an evidence-based approach to develop a range of recommendations on how to best to achieve the review’s objectives:

• understand the prevalence and harmful impact of illegal pornography online, and the impact on viewers of other forms of legal pornography, including emerging themes like AI-generated pornography, and the impact on viewer’s attitudes to violence against women and girls;
• assess the public’s awareness and understanding of existing regulation and legislation of pornography;
• consider the current rules in place to regulate the pornography industry, comparing online and offline laws;
• determine if law enforcers and the justice system are responding to illegal pornography sufficiently, and if change is needed;
• find out how prevalent human trafficking and exploitation is in the industry, before recommending how to identify and tackle this;
• use this knowledge to set out what more can be done to provide those who need it with guidance on the potential harmful impact of pornography.

To ensure the review’s final recommendations are robust, it is important that a broad range of views and evidence are considered. This call for evidence invites:

• members of the public
• the government
• subject matter experts
• organisations

to contribute to the review.

The call for evidence closes on 7 March 2024.

What a complete shame the actual questions don't match the preamble and they aren't actually looking for what they said they were at all, and instead are looking for lobbyists or market researchers to do their work for them instead of sending their own researcher to answer those questions with a few days on Google Scholar.

What a shame the questions are biased and they're asking the wrong questions with a slant on what they want the outcome to be.

This had so much potential to actually research this important topic and it's so clear from that whole set of questions that they aren't genuinely interested in what they said they were at the outset. They haven't even defined what they mean by pornography specifically for the purposes of this research or what is excluded from the scope of it.

I agree with giraffe. Impossible to answer the questions, totally unhelpful as a member of the public and I think the harms from online porn are huge (and have direct experience). But i couldn't answer the questions. So frustrating

Times Radio are doing a full week on pornography next week. When they announced who they were talking to (can't quite remember who, but someone in the industry, someone who makes ethical porn and someone who does something in schools) and said they weren't going to be challenging the morality of it, I realised it would likely be shit.

They need Dr Tamasine Preece on.

Just to note there is no need to answer their questions online, anyone can respond by writing a letter and submitting it to the email address on the site. The letter can contain anything you want to say on the subject, without their bias.

I hate that harm to women and children gets dismissed under a smokescreen of "morality". As someone who's marriage was destroyed by porn addiction and associated lying/spending the black and white characterisation of "all men watch porn" really annoys me because it Implies I should have really just let exH have at it and the problem is my morals, not his sexual incontinence. Might have a listen anyway.