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Laws and regulations aimed at protecting children from accessing erotic content.
Upbringing is a major but not sole architect of men's attitudes toward nudity: parental behavior, stated attitudes, early exposure, and broader cultural or religious norms shape comfort and meaning at...
Legal and technical definitions of CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) most commonly describe visual depictions—photographs, videos, live streams and computer-generated images—as the core category, esp...
ICE’s process to identify and rescue child victims of human trafficking centers on Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) using a “victim‑centered” framewo...
Age-verification laws for erotic content vary widely: some countries mandate robust, ID‑based checks and site blocking, others rely on industry self‑regulation or blanket censorship, and the United St...
Investigators do not generally “stop” pursuing small CSAM matters in the sense of formally abandoning them, but they routinely triage and prioritize investigations so that higher‑risk cases—those sugg...
Countries that permit largely unrestricted adult pornography generally do so because legal frameworks prioritize free expression and limit state interference in consensual adult sexual material, while...
Federal law defines child pornography as visual depictions of minors engaged in “sexually explicit conduct,” and prosecutors can — and do — pursue sexting and exploitation cases involving minors even ...
An adult who asks a minor on social media to wear boxer briefs and pays the minor could sometimes trigger criminal investigation, but whether that conduct usually results in federal charges depends on...
Seeing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in an Instagram Reel can have legal consequences: CSAM is illegal to create, distribute, or possess under U.S. federal law and many other jurisdictions, and p...
Most jurisdictions treat access to pornography by a fixed minimum age — commonly 18 — rather than tying access to broader civil “adulthood” status, but important exceptions and regulatory wrinkles exi...
Across multiple global datasets and reviews from the last decade, sexual violence is overwhelmingly experienced by women and girls and overwhelmingly perpetrated by men; international estimates put li...
There is no settled empirical answer to what effects child sex dolls have; academic reviews and studies report plausible harms, contested therapeutic claims, and serious legal and ethical concerns whi...
Creating, distributing, or possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been treated as illegal by many federal agencies and advocates, but key constitutional and statutory nuances m...
A report of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to a platform or to NCMEC does not guarantee immediate removal because reporting, preservation, and downstream law‑enforcement processing create legal an...
A global baseline of “18” as the minimum age for production, sale or viewing of pornography exists in many places, but multiple countries explicitly legislate different thresholds — commonly 16 or, le...