And activists are starting to point out the grave injustices that come with it, including the massive threat to sex workers’ income and safety.
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For self-employed workers in the sex industry, the measures could pose a tangible threat to their income and safety. And the magnitude of this threat won’t be fully realised until the law comes into force.
The new law — known informally as the 'porn ban' — will apply to the major porn providers like YouPorn etc. It will also affect small scale sex workers, who use specialist sites or their own personal websites to advertise their work.
In other words, this law won’t just affect porn makers, it could impact on private sex workers, escorts, webcam models, fetish models, and dominatrixes. A 2015 study estimated there’s around 72,816 sex workers in the UK — 88 percent of whom are women — but it’s difficult to assess just how many will be impacted by the new law.
'My biggest worry is income,' says Eve. 'I have absolutely no clue how it's going to affect the clip and cam sites I'm on. There's no way to predict it.'
This uncertainty means cam girls like Eve have no idea whether their business will be severely impacted, which could cause a significant drop in earnings. Eve’s focus for now is on working hard to create a financial safety net.
I don't know, the left used to be very much against porn and prostitution, there's even a porn shop in my small town that kept getting vandalized by leftist groups. Suddenly a switch was flipped and now porn is feminist and prostitutes are "sex workers" and we have to support them. The narrative changed very quickly.
Justin Gutierrez
Bongs have to be retarded to do this, do they not realize that without porn they will lose their grip on the populace? People will get restless
The 3 things in life that I love: 1) My boys 2) My girls 3) My porn
John Sullivan
Thank god. I just wanked to porn. Ive been pretty good this year, trying no porn, but have failed a few times in the last couple of weeks. This wouldn't have happened if the porn ban was in place. Long long overdue.
Kevin Nelson
>but how can we possibly make any money if we aren't allowed to strip for children?
do they really think that kids are paying them to begin with
Gabriel Hall
>independent sex workers independent sex workers >independent sex workers independent sex workers >independent sex workers independent sex workers >independent sex workers independent sex workers
it won't stop people watching porn and the ban has nothing to do with porn
Joseph Edwards
Why then?
Ethan Martin
they get to make money from selling porn loiscences
Jose Hughes
They just like renaming things so as to empower themselves.
Owen Baker
Wtf you have to pay for them? Porn should be a right
Cooper Hughes
couldn't you just use a VPN? Everytime a video is banned in the US from youtube i just switch the VPN to Brazil and problem solved.
Samuel Jenkins
It’s going ahead. The whole Tory party stands behind the porn license.
Jeremiah Clark
No, they put a “min 1/3rd of content” threshold in to exempt twitter, facebook, Jow Forums rtc.
Ryder Barnes
It’s not delayed, it is coming into force next month.
Brayden Brooks
Other away around, only the well known sites like pornhub can manage id verification. All the rest os being blocked by the UK gov.
Jayden Carter
>british >white
Hudson Cooper
How do you deal with blue balls then?
Logan Young
I think the point is that only the big players can comply with the rules, so the small rip off sites amd cam girls and prostitute/escort sites will be targeted and shut down.
Jacob Gomez
Yes, you can buy VPNs... and the UK government is thinking about special VPN taxes to make money off the surge in VPN subscriptions.
Benjamin Lopez
Being against porn and prostitution is fascist now.
It's been postponed like 5 times now already lmao.
They've already put together a fucking legal fund because they know it will be shit all over by privacy lawsuits.
It's a pathetic attempt by the Tories to secure the sad old prude vote that's totally ineffective in the real world.
Parker Brooks
Then it definitely won't be going anywhere at all m8, the Tories are a little bit busy for the next month or so, stabbing each other in the back on live television in an uneddifying leadership race that frankly the country hates them even more for now. Let the Wanking Loisence be their headstone, now that really would be appropriate.
Meanwhile Farage is talking to the public one on one via wildcard talk radio five times a week discussing electorial reform and dragging the judicial system out of the 1700s. And they wonder how he's so popular, eh?
