This is exactly why I criticize porn addiction coaches… You mean to tell me your recommendation for people struggling is…not a licensed therapist, but your own paid coaching? 🤡

Trump's FTC Chair posts that people opposing age-verification surveillance are just shills being "being paid by people who want to prey on your kids." The lengths this administration goes to delegitimize dissent is staggering.

Sex workers can’t exist online without people showing up in the comments to blame us for mens “porn addictions.”

Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching porn, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/viral-quittr...

I challenged a CSAT on the scientific evidence behind “porn addiction,” & this was her response….Completely unprofessional imo 😵‍💫

Quittr vulnerabilities exposed the masturbation habits as well as private confessional diaries of 600,000 users, including 100,000 MINORS. And didn't fix the problem despite being made aware of it more than six months ago. It's almost as if it weren't a treatment app, but a surveillance app.

404 Media@404media.co · 5mo ago

Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching porn, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/viral-quittr...

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

"The question isn’t just a matter of accounting or accuracy. The extremely low revenue figures equate sex work with trafficking, and are used to justify increased censorship, policing and banking discrimination. Better data is both a business and a political issue."

SWR Data@swr-data.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SWERFs and religious right are have been using faked numbers to justify censorship, policing and debanking of adult creators. This year's State of the Creator proved how wrong that data is. This week, we dive into how (and how much) adult creators are earning. 🧵

I Challenged a CSAT Therapist on the “Porn/Sex Addiction” Model:

After a series of violent threats last week on NoFap Discord, now calls to "Destroy Mindgeek". They don't even know who they're referring to, but they want violence. This is why science on violence in NoFap remains important:this is not self-help & not for youth. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

it's hard to explain how horrible and dangerous this app and the people who made it are but I tried: www.404media.co/app-for-quit...

App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits

Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.

404media.co

Having muscled age-verification through last session, AZ Republicans are pushing forward even greater restrictions on sex, including banning porn entirely (HB 2900), threatening adult producers with warrantless AG inspections (HB 2133) and HB 2720, which would make purchasing sex a felony.

Arizona Lawmakers Push To Make Buying Sex A Felony

Lawmakers push to make buying sex a felony and hold online platforms liable for facilitating prostitution.

hoodline.com

Ever wonder where the "OnlyFans creators only make $150-$180/month" stat came from?...One guy scraped around 1000 profiles, guessed earnings from likes, ignored tips and PPV..& then posted it as a blog in 2020! People still cite this BS stat to shame sex workers:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to the Senate claiming to "hold big tech accountable" while promoting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda and boosting groups like Morality in Media (aka NCOSE), which has sought to criminalize LGBTQ sex, w board members that support conversion therapy

I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...

The Bearded Educator@literarybeardo.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky

533 anti-LGBTQ+ bills filed this year. 120 more already pre-filed for 2026. The attacks are relentless — but so are we. Join the fight early. Be part of the resistance. woodhullfreedom.org/48mxJvX

The Vanguard Society: For Those Who Refuse to Obey

FREEDOM IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR - EVERY MONTH. Victoria Woodhull didn’t wait for permission - she led the charge. She stood boldly on the front lines of history, demanding equality, free speech, and ...

woodhullfreedom.org

Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving

Remember this when you see scare headlines about the high rate of minors seeing “porn” online: They’re either not seeing it on porn sites or what they’re seeing isn’t actually porn. It turns out minors not necessarily know what “porn” even is. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/no...

“I promise you, NCOSE would gleefully move to silence many RIAA-label supported artists, claiming their music is "obscene" and must be stopped. It would be nice if artists on RIAA labels spoke up about how they feel about the RIAA supporting NCOSE's attacks on speech.”

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 10mo ago

Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!? That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense. Let me explain...

All of the most wholesome people I know are sex workers.

wild considering most sex workers I know have had at least one of their accounts yeeted for the crime of existing

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

"Companies will always prioritize their needs and safety over yours, and that uploading sensitive information to the internet will always come with risks and vulnerabilities, no matter how safe these companies claim your data is in their hands."

Give Us Your Face or Lose Your Account: AI Age Verification Is Here, and Experts Are Worried

From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong.

pcmag.com

My time on ManyVids is ending now that the site is transitioning to an “exit program” for sex workers. I love my job. I don’t need a savior. I embrace and own my sexuality. Bella French profited off of sex workers for YEARS and is now pretending to be holier than thou. Tale as old as time🖕

Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could: * make camming illegal * redefine escort ads as pimping * render model contracts unenforceable * criminalize discussions of teen sexuality And a whole lot more ...

Moral panic about rough sex gives way to censorship in the UK

British regulators and lawmakers are hot on a measure that would make possessing or publishing strangulation porn a crime.

reason.com

The Online Safety Act has made going online even more dangerous. Google is now warning that as Britons turn to VPNs to avoid the act, there's been an explosion in scam VPNs that sell data or provide it to state actors. Naturally, that would includes data on (and access to) minors.

Google issues security alert: Your VPN app could be spyware in disguise

Google's November 2025 fraud advisory identified malicious VPNs as a rising threat

techradar.com

As someone who has frequently defended free speech rights of sex workers and sex work advocates, it's completely unsurprising but nevertheless galling to be reminded once again how POWERFUL MEN talk fondly about sex work in private while demonizing it and pushing oppressive laws about it publicly.

@eff.org: "Websites subject to [Wisconsin's SB 130] are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state. One state's terrible law is attempting to break VPN access for the entire internet."

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...

eff.org

The number of visitors to Pornhub have dropped 77% as the UK's censorship campaign takes huge toll — not just on adult sites, but on the rights of Britons to access the internet anonymously. The government was warned this would happen and they didn't care.

Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

The site tells BBC News it believes people are viewing riskier sites - but they may just be using VPNs.

bbc.com

Whenever I meet a "feminist" who wants to abolish sex work, I instantly know I'm talking with an unserious person who is not willing to do the work. Let's imagine, for the sake of the argument, that they were right and all sex workers were trafficking victims who wanted to leave sex work. 🧵