If I'm suddenly gone next year

[Z_TheWriter]

The combination of a thread headline at the top of the forums and iwatchus is gone! (which turned out to be much less serious than at first look) made me think I should probably mention this:

My home country is introducing a new age verification ID thing on the internet, among other things aimed at porn, sometime during Spring next year. I do not know if this will affect Literotica or not. They also have plans to restrict or possibly entirely ban the use of VPNs.

This is not the political board, so I will merely say that I disagree vehemently with both of these initiatives. If it turns out I can no longer access Literotica without verifying my IRL identity, I will most likely just disappear. This makes me sad, but it is not up for debate. I just thought I should say it, so I don't just vanish randomly.

 

[PennyThompson]

If it turns out I can no longer access Literotica without verifying my IRL identity, I will most likely just disappear.

This is a fear of mine as well, I really don't want my work on Literotica or other erotica sites to be connected to my real self... the devil would be in the details of what any particular verification system might look like, but I would be very very cautious about my privacy.

In the US at least, to my knowledge most of the state-level age restrictions seem to be focused on porn videos and images, because the censorious politicians that push for this stuff don't seem to be big readers

 

[Baztrachian]

The combination of a thread headline at the top of the forums and iwatchus is gone! (which turned out to be much less serious than at first look) made me think I should probably mention this:

My home country is introducing a new age verification ID thing on the internet, among other things aimed at porn, sometime during Spring next year. I do not know if this will affect Literotica or not. They also have plans to restrict or possibly entirely ban the use of VPNs.

This is not the political board, so I will merely say that I disagree vehemently with both of these initiatives. If it turns out I can no longer access Literotica without verifying my IRL identity, I will most likely just disappear. This makes me sad, but it is not up for debate. I just thought I should say it, so I don't just vanish randomly.

You are about to experience authoritarianism. Either fight or flee. Acceptance is always fatal to either the body or the soul.

 

[Davidwa1]

We have that here. The only issue is you cant open links like pornhub. I did do the verification for one site like that and not as bad as you think.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I would also guess that many of the big publishers have enough skin in the smut game at this point that that banning written works would be... tricky. Alchemised, a CNC breeding-kink fantasy, is published through Del Rey, which is an imprint of Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House paid big advances for memoirs by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, at least three Supreme Court justices and many senators, congressmen and governors. Right now, smut-romance is helping keep the lights on at some of these publishing houses and paying for those big advances. And, like Del Rey did with Alchemised/Manacled, publishers want to churn through as much cheap shit as possible until they find a huge hit. Sites like Lit are the bottom of that particular food chain.

 

[stickygirl]

The combination of a thread headline at the top of the forums and iwatchus is gone! (which turned out to be much less serious than at first look) made me think I should probably mention this:

My home country is introducing a new age verification ID thing on the internet, among other things aimed at porn, sometime during Spring next year. I do not know if this will affect Literotica or not. They also have plans to restrict or possibly entirely ban the use of VPNs.

This is not the political board, so I will merely say that I disagree vehemently with both of these initiatives. If it turns out I can no longer access Literotica without verifying my IRL identity, I will most likely just disappear. This makes me sad, but it is not up for debate. I just thought I should say it, so I don't just vanish randomly.

I've heard the rumours too, but I'm calling it BS. It's businesses and government agencies who first adopted and now rely on VPNs for online security and since probably half the UK use a VPN service ( please don't say you're using a free one ) then I don't see how the govt can force the change. The twats at Whitehall don't understand the tech now - imagine how AI will fry their brains.

 

[TheLobster]

I would also guess that many of the big publishers have enough skin in the smut game at this point that that banning written works would be... tricky. Alchemised, a CNC breeding-kink fantasy, is published through Del Rey, which is an imprint of Penguin Random House. (…)

It would be grimly hilarious if the clueless political powers that be banned the written porn on the internet, while at the same you’d be able to find material just as raunchy, if not more, simply by going to the nearest bookstore.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I've heard the rumours too, but I'm calling it BS. It's businesses and government agencies who first adopted and now rely on VPNs for online security and since probably half the UK use a VPN service ( please don't say you're using a free one ) then I don't see how the govt can force the change. The twats at Whitehall don't understand the tech now - imagine how AI will fry their brains.

The state legislature of Indiana is, I believe, considering legislation to ban connecting to age-restricted sites through VPNs. Not doing Politics Board discourse, but at least in the US it's starting to be a live issue.

Adult video content doesn't have an effective lobby, though, which is why I'm more optimistic about publishing. Kindle Unlimited and Audible are both Amazon products, and they both have a significant portion of the userbase that's just there for smut. It's even become profitable for audiobook producers to record full audio-play versions with separate narrator/FMC/MMC narrators and separate editions for standard-format and full-smut-audio that adds sound effects to the fucking scenes.

 

[PennyThompson]

separate editions for standard-format and full-smut-audio that adds sound effects to the fucking scenes.

Plot bunny... how does one become a foley artist for erotic audiobooks

 

[GemmaGemmaGemma]

They introduced this here in the summer. Literotica has survived for now, not sure if that is going to change in the future. I haven't bothered getting a permanent VPN yet so I just went cold turkey on some of the sites I used to use for meditation/inspiration, etc. Miss you random assortment of subreddits that I liked to search top of all time on

 

[TheLobster]

Kindle Unlimited and Audible are both Amazon products, and they both have a significant portion of the userbase that's just there for smut.

“Help us, milking farm minotaur, you’re our only hope!”

 

[Z_TheWriter]

I'm just gonna put here that I appreciate all of the responses.

I'm gonna avoid taking part in the conversation however. To say I'm upset and disappointed with my country for this (Denmark was the first country in the world to legalize porn) would be an egregious understatement. If I start talking any more about this, I will go off on a fiery, political, soapbox rant - which this is not the place for.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I would also guess that many of the big publishers have enough skin in the smut game at this point that that banning written works would be... tricky. Alchemised, a CNC breeding-kink fantasy, is published through Del Rey, which is an imprint of Penguin Random House ...

Have you seen Morning Glory Milking Farm, a tale of a woman who gets a job giving a handsome minotaur handjobs for a living?

No, not making that up.

https://www.jezebel.com/he-was-a-minotaur-she-was-a-human-girl-they-rock-each-1847893072

--Annie

 

[old_prof]

I'm just gonna put here that I appreciate all of the responses.

I'm gonna avoid taking part in the conversation however. To say I'm upset and disappointed with my country for this (Denmark was the first country in the world to legalize porn) would be an egregious understatement. If I start talking any more about this, I will go off on a fiery, political, soapbox rant - which this is not the place for.

 

[stickygirl]

They introduced this here in the summer. Literotica has survived for now, not sure if that is going to change in the future. I haven't bothered getting a permanent VPN yet so I just went cold turkey on some of the sites I used to use for meditation/inspiration, etc. Miss you random assortment of subreddits that I liked to search top of all time on

I suspect that's exactly why Lit purged all the onsite image-posting.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Have you seen Morning Glory Milking Farm, a tale of a woman who gets a job giving a handsome minotaur handjobs for a living?

No, not making that up.

https://www.jezebel.com/he-was-a-minotaur-she-was-a-human-girl-they-rock-each-1847893072

--Annie

Yep. That stuff drives a decent amount of business to Amazon. Some of them are self-published, others through indies. The Kiss of Seduction series, which is like vampire/succubus sapphic trauma-dumping, is published through an RPG publisher that mostly does Pathfinder 2nd Edition material. What makes Alchemised interesting that it's through a major imprint at one of the Big Five.

 

[OralAllOver]

The combination of a thread headline at the top of the forums and iwatchus is gone! (which turned out to be much less serious than at first look) made me think I should probably mention this:

My home country is introducing a new age verification ID thing on the internet, among other things aimed at porn, sometime during Spring next year. I do not know if this will affect Literotica or not. They also have plans to restrict or possibly entirely ban the use of VPNs.

This is not the political board, so I will merely say that I disagree vehemently with both of these initiatives. If it turns out I can no longer access Literotica without verifying my IRL identity, I will most likely just disappear. This makes me sad, but it is not up for debate. I just thought I should say it, so I don't just vanish randomly.

Consider Tor?

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/tor-vs-vpn/

 

[stickygirl]

I suspect that's exactly why Lit purged all the onsite image-posting.

I was not upset by that, not through the principal but common sense. If you want to look at endless porn images, go to a porn website and not have your viewing curated by an obsessive sex addict on a Lit thread.... only saying!

Again, this needn't be a political mud-slinging discush but ... if we are aiming to steer young men away from objectivising bodies, then maybe putting things back on a top shelf isn't such an affront to our liberties?
If we're hoping to improve literacy rates, then ... let them read Literotica, where third-person and semi-colons are a thing!!

 

[old_prof]

where third-person and semi-colons are a thing!!

Hey. No kink shaming my 1P!

 

[OralAllOver]

The combination of a thread headline at the top of the forums and iwatchus is gone! (which turned out to be much less serious than at first look) made me think I should probably mention this:

My home country is introducing a new age verification ID thing on the internet, among other things aimed at porn, sometime during Spring next year. I do not know if this will affect Literotica or not. They also have plans to restrict or possibly entirely ban the use of VPNs.

This is not the political board, so I will merely say that I disagree vehemently with both of these initiatives. If it turns out I can no longer access Literotica without verifying my IRL identity, I will most likely just disappear. This makes me sad, but it is not up for debate. I just thought I should say it, so I don't just vanish randomly.

https://www.allthingssecured.com/vpn/faq/4-vpn-alternatives/

 

[stickygirl]

My home country is introducing a new age verification ID thing on the internet, among other things aimed at porn, sometime during Spring next year. I do not know if this will affect Literotica or not. They also have plans to restrict or possibly entirely ban the use of VPNs.

Sorry not sorry with this thread twist, but I joked with a friend that if I'm hit by a bus, to explain my browser history.... I currently deep-diving alcoholics anonymous for a story.
Authors are smart people, given the breadth of research they undertake.... haven't researched much about undertakers yet, apart from that line in Goalposts I where she mentions mortuary make up and shovin paper up the corpse's ass.

 

[SimonDoom]

I suspect that's exactly why Lit purged all the onsite image-posting.

I suspect you're right. They don't want to be subject to those restrictions. As long as they are purely a WRITTEN erotica site I doubt they will be, but I wonder if there are any states in the USA currently looking at regulating written erotica the way visual erotica has been regulated.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I suspect that's exactly why Lit purged all the onsite image-posting.

It's exactly why, to go one step lower, below the radar. The site has stated that, in an email sent to folk with illustrated content in their portfolio. Text only content is inherently less threatening to the legislature than visual content.

 

[Baztrachian]

The twats at Whitehall...

Deserve an appointment with the axe at the Tower of London.

 

[Baztrachian]

I suspect you're right. They don't want to be subject to those restrictions. As long as they are purely a WRITTEN erotica site I doubt they will be, but I wonder if there are any states in the USA currently looking at regulating written erotica the way visual erotica has been regulated.

The states in the USA really have nothing to say about online content. This is Federal territory and the Feds get irate when the states try to intrude on this space.