Winnifred, 12, a precocious New York City girl on the cusp of adulthood, wears fish-net stockings and low-cut tops, striving to emulate her musical idol, Lady Gaga. Laura, a year-old kindergarten teacher from Alexandria, Va. Nichole, 32, of Clearwater, Fla. Perhaps they do not represent typical American youth, but they all feel the pressure to be beautiful and to be sexy. All three stories are intertwined in "Sexy Baby," an award-winning documentary about how technology and pornography are shaping the sexual identity of young girls. With Facebook, smart phones and instant access to the Internet, a generation of children is getting their sex education from online porn.
Pornhub Halts ‘Unverified’ Videos Following Report of Bakersfield Teen’s Plight
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Pornhub has been sued by 40 women who say it profited from a sex-trafficking operation by a content partner. The women were all victims of Girls Do Porn, whose owners have been charged with offences by US officials. The victims allege that Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek knew of the allegations against the company, but continued a partnership anyway. It comes as Pornhub finds itself cut off from customer payments amid a scandal over illegal content. Payment providers Mastercard and Visa have cut ties with the site after a New York Times investigation accused it of hosting child abuse and rape-related content.
Generation XXX Gets Sex Education From Porn, Says Film
The National Office Against Pornography and Illegal Publications said on Saturday that it's investigating websites providing sexually explicit pictures and videos of children. China's National Office Against Pornography and Illegal Publications reiterated that China won't tolerate the production and distribution of sexually explicit content featuring minors. The move came after people exposed similar websites in Chinese following the recent high-profile "Nth room" scandal in South Korea. On Thursday, the Beijing News received a tip on social media saying that five Chinese-language websites had been providing sexually explicit pictures and videos of minors.
Young adults say pornography is their best source of information about how to have sex, new research finds. In a nationally representative survey, a quarter of to year-olds listed porn as their "most helpful" source of information on how to have sex. This made porn the most-mentioned source of information, even above asking one's own partner.