Porn

Explained: Why banning porn doesn’t guarantee a drop in sexual assault cases

News of a 10-year-old being raped and murdered, allegedly by a porn-addicted teenager, has raised the old demand of banning X-rated content online. But studies show countries which loosened porn restrictions witnessed a decrease in sex crimes and experts say porn may act a ‘safety valve' for men

Twitter searches for China COVID-19 protests bombarded by spam, porn

For the past few days, searches in Chinese for major protest hotspots, including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou, show a nonstop stream of solicitations, images of scantily clad women in suggestive poses and seemingly random word and sentence fragments

Great Wall of Porn: How China is using sex bots to quell the COVID protests on social media

A search for the names of the Chinese cities where mass, unprecedented protests are taking place over the strict zero-COVID policy saw users being flooded with lewd posts. Analysts point out that it’s a tried-and-tested method used by the authorities to crush dissent

Jharkhand: Villagers blacken school teacher's face for showing porn to girls, touching them inappropriately

At least six girl students of an upgraded middle school in Noamundi block had told their parents that the teacher showed them indecent videos and touched them inappropriately, a police officer said

Kangana Ranaut calling Gehraiyaan 'porn' only reflects her limitations as an actor

"Dear Kangana Ranaut, you cannot play Jhansi Ki Rani and Rani Padmaavat all the time. Sometimes, you just have play to dark, undesirable, even loathsome characters."

Police investigate local US news channel for accidentally airing 13 seconds of porn in weather report

A statement by the Spokane City Police Department said that the broadcast of the clip led to the department receiving calls from many citizens, who were left disturbed by the images

Do we need 'heavage' queens like Poonam Pandey in the age of internet porn?

There’s a market for erotic movies, but in an industry where women struggle every day to be more than just wallpaper, do we need more "actors" trying to make it on the basis of how much butt-crack they’re willing to show?

Women who watch porn have been left out of the conversation: Deep Dives editor

How do gender, sex and technology interact in the modern world? Deep Dives editor Richa Kaul Padte publishes stories that aim to answer those questions.

Instagram has more than one million porn videos hidden under Arabic hashtags

In spite of Instagram's no nudity policy, there are millions of hardcore porn videos on the site lurking under Arabic hashtags.

What Indians look for in desi porn: Homemade videos, 'bhabhis', and familiar settings

Richa Kaul Padte's Cyber Sexy offers views into online sexual cultures — camgirls, fanfiction writers, 'home-made' videos — while also exploring questions such as consent and its violation