Protecting Minors From Accessing Porn – Whose Responsibility Is It?

With the appearance of tube sites and the evolution of our online world as a whole, porn is more accessible than ever. No need to pay if you don’t want to, and no need to share personal data with sketchy looking porn sites. The future is here. However, there’s one problem. Now that porn is easily accessible to everyone, who is going to make sure that minors aren’t accessing it?

It is no secret that we as porn stars are often blamed for the issue of underage porn consumption.

If there would be no porn stars and no porn, children would be safe, right?

That’s how anti-porn crusaders think.

But the reality couldn’t be further from this utopia. Porn isn’t going anywhere. So, what can be done? I talked to Anna Vespree and Nikki Night, to find out their thoughts on the situation. 

Do you think the current measures to protect minors from porn are enough?

“Depends on the platform we are talking about. If we are talking about social media, no, they are not. I believe social platforms can do more regarding this,” said Anna Vespree.

She pointed out that social media platforms could make partnerships with the adult industry platforms – like giving them exposure for money. 

“But this requires a lot of talk between [both] parties and true involvement, as well as less judgement.”

In answer to the question, Nikki Night stated: “Yes and no. While I agree with ‘gatekeeping’ adult content through age verification, I can’t say the ‘I am 18+’ verify button on sites is exactly doing anything other than saying we asked. That being said, minors should have firewalls and porn blockers across all devices anyway.”

Why do you think minors seek out porn? 

“Out of curiosity. We all have done it at [one] point,” explained Vespree.

She said that most of teenagers don’t have anyone close to them to talk about sex and relationships, which is why they look for porn.

“I believe if adults around them would start being more open and involved in shedding light on their curiosities, they would not search [for porn] so much anymore. For some it is a taboo subject, a shameful one, so hence why they need to find those answers in other places. ”

Night also agrees that a huge reason why minors seek out porn is basic human curiosity.

Whose responsibility is it to protect minors from porn?

“The adults around them! They should first learn to talk openly when the time is right, and before that to block the access [to porn],” said Vespree. “It’s easy to put the blame on others when you don’t assume your own responsibility as a parent and adult. If more [adults] will pay more attention to this, [our work] will be so much easier.”

“I truly think it’s everyone,” Night said. “I can’t see a way only one group (inside the industry or mainstream) could manage to do it alone.”

Is there anything we as porn stars should/could do to protect them more?

“Unfortunately, the power is not in our hands. We rely on platforms, and the platforms should do it first. I think we are already doing the best we can, by tagging and flagging and blocking the escaped accounts that lack adult supervision,” Vespree said. 

“Make sure you follow the content guidelines of social platforms, mark appropriate content as NSFW, age verify the best you can and advertise in appropriate places,” Night added.

Overall, we all seem to agree that the main responsibility of protecting minors from accessing porn falls to the parents themselves.

We, as adult content creators, are already using the limited tools we have to make sure our content isn’t consumed by minors. Controlling every child in the world is impossible, and, while there is no foolproof way to make sure no child ever looks at porn, parents have the greatest resources to minimize this possibility.

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Alison Sparks is a camgirl, solo adult content creator and writer. Find her on Twitter at @itsalisonsparks and email her via alison@ynotcam.com.