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  • ‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

    AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes Eleanor, 24, is a Polish historian and lecturer at a university in Warsaw; Isabelle, 25, is a detective serving with the NYPD; Brooke, 39, is an American housewife who enjoys an opulent Miami lifestyle financed by her frequently…

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  • OnlyFans, AI girlfriends and ‘stepdads’: the porn industry in 2025 – podcast

    What does Europe’s biggest porn conference reveal about the future of the porn industry? Amelia Gentleman reports The Xbiz Adult Industry Conference is Europe’s largest porn industry gathering. About a thousand content creators travelled to Amsterdam for the event earlier this month. The Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman was there and describes to Helen Pidd the…

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  • A day with the Revenge Porn Helpline: ‘You can sense the callers’ desperation’

    Intimate image abuse is a crisis in the UK – with a fortyfold increase in calls to this service since it opened in 2015. Thankfully, there are effective ways to help those being victimised By midday, Jessica has dealt with five calls from highly distressed young women in their 20s, all close to tears or…

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  • Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act

    Deputy PM says move would cause rise in ‘revenge porn’, as Labour launches attack ads against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is “failing a generation of young women” with his plans to scrap the Online Safety Act, Angela Rayner has said, arguing the move would cause an increase in the prevalence of “revenge porn”. The…

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  • UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced

    Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety Act British visits to popular pornography sites have slumped following the introduction of strict age checks last month, data shows. Daily visits to Pornhub, the UK’s most used porn site, fell from 3.6m on 24 July, the day…

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  • Anger grows in China over reports of online groups sharing explicit photos of women

    Chinese media said more than 100,000 were members of Telegram group that shared pictures taken without consent Anger is growing on Chinese social media after news reports revealed the existence of online groups, said to involve hundreds of thousands of Chinese men, which shared photographs of women, including sexually explicit ones, taken without their consent.…

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  • UK online safety law leads to 5m extra age checks a day for pornography sites

    Huge increase in online age verifications but many users turn to virtual private networks to access pornography sites Five million extra online age checks a day are being carried out in the UK since the introduction of age-gating for pornography sites, according to new data. The Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) said there had been…

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