In the News: Lawmakers are turning up the heat on PornHub

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What do you think, Can We Make Our Sex Lives Fun Again? Five people share pointers on how to reignite your sexual spark whether alone or with a partner. [The Wall Street Journal]

Hopefully you’ve read Nicholas Kristof’s article that exposed the amount of illegal and non consensual content on PornHub’s site. Now, Lawmakers are turning up the heat on PornHub by introducing a bill that allows victims of sex trafficking and revenge porn to sue sites hosting videos of them. [Business Insider]

And, PornHub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform but is it enough? “While Pornhub's decision to stop unverified users from sharing videos on its site could greatly reduce abuse on its platform, it's not a guaranteed method to stop all abuse. Pornhub continued to host Girls Do Porn and even promoted it as a "Pornhub Content Partner" while it was being sued by 22 of the women for fraud, emotional distress damages, and misappropriation of their likeness, and after a Motherboard investigation showed Pornhub was being used to dox and harass the women in the videos.” [Vice]

How a Queer Icon Made the Holiday Film of the Year - Actor turned writer-director Clea DuVall talks about her holiday film that has captured queer audiences everywhere and her own life experiences that inspired it. [The Atlantic]

The women of the Tight Lipped podcast discuss reasons behind why vulva owners might be experiencing painful sex so if you’re one of them you know You’re Not the Only One Having Painful Sex. [Glamour]

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