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If you're filming sexual acts to be placed onto a website for monetary gain, then there should be a written form showing that consent. He said/she said shouldn't be something that should come within 10 miles of these conversations. The consent form should grant either party the ability to with draw that consent again with written consent.

Lot's of should which is the problem



See my other comment about the "girl do porn" cases. The models signed release forms with the expectation their videos go to private buyers but instead they were sold online, so they turned around and sued the producers for sexual assault instead. This sort of thing needs sunshine lists and clear regulations. Plus having to disclose your identity on a public registry would reduce porn participation too, so it's a win-win even for the Republican legislators who are against porn in the first place.

I would go as far as to suggest that full SSN-level KYC ought to be legally required for all actors. From my understanding the adult film/sex industry currently rely purely on physical signatures and maybe driver licenses for their releases. If you need to disclose your SSN to sign up for a penny stock app like Robinhood, then you damn well should be required to do the same for anything sex work related. And if an underaged person try to do that, automatically notify the parents. It's not as if certain segments of the American government are unfamiliar with "don't say trans" tattle-to-the-parents legislation for kids.


> If you need to disclose your SSN to sign up for a penny stock app like Robinhood, then you damn well should be required to do the same for anything sex work related.

Stock trading accounts need your SSN for its original purpose, which is taxes.

And I think that having the government keep a list of people who do things that many consider immoral might worry people who don't trust the government to use such lists responsibly.


> The models signed release forms with the expectation

If the website hosting the content requires consent forms before allowing the video to be published, then these types of situations will be covered. To allow the content to be published, the consent must explicitly grant the host site to publish. If not, then the site should not allow the content. All content should be explicitly granted permission for use. This is how the rest of the world works with licensed content. Not just photography, but even things like fonts grant a license for personal desktop use, but requires additional licensing for use on a website or printed material. Music grants rights for personal use, but again needs additional rights for use in movies, TVs, commercials, social media platforms, etc.

It's yet another example of a working system in place for everyone, yet the people either disrupting or flagrantly disregarding those systems causes chaos.




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