Age Verification And Censorship

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Thanks to new laws in the place you live, we can’t show you all of the adult content on the Bright Desire preview tour. You are only seeing a very SFW and censored preview.

It’s likely your politicians have decided to censor the internet where you are and legislated the use of privacy-invading “age verification” software. This requires you to verify your age using either government-issued ID or facial recognition. Your info would go into a third party database which could be hacked and sold. Or used by the government itself to profile porn users.

At Bright Desire we believe adults have the right to enjoy adult content. They also have a right to privacy. We have decided against using age verification software because we don’t believe you should have your privacy violated in order to enjoy our ethical erotica. We believe it’s up to parents to police what their children are viewing online and there’s already plenty of porn blocking apps and software that does this. (Note: This site is labeled with Restricted To Adult (RTA) tags that work with parental blocking software.)

We also want you to know that, as a small, independent site, if we did use the flawed, privacy-invading age verification tech, it would be the end of our business. That’s because most people will see an age verification page and refuse to use it. They’ll seek free porn elsewhere and they won’t support our little site. It’s likely we won’t be able to pay our costs and the site will have to shut down. This is the stated aim of many anti-porn legislators – they don’t believe adults should be able to view any adult content at all.

We think our films should not be censored. They are positive, joyful depictions of an important aspect of our shared humanity and they should be seen. We want to make them available to adults. So you’re looking at an extremely restricted version of our tour which does not show any nudity or explicit sex acts. It’s mainly people kissing each other and laughing. It would be classified M in Australia – it deals with sex but there’s nothing you wouldn’t see on TV after 8.30pm. You’ll find much more explicit content on Vimeo or Youtube. It’s not perfect but we want to give you an idea of our work without having to invade your privacy.

You can still enjoy the explicit content at Bright Desire. You’ll need to join using a credit card which will verify your age. You’ll get access to all of our award-winning erotic short films, scenes, audio erotica, erotic fiction and articles. It’ll be worth it, we promise. Maybe do an online search of our name and see what other people are saying.

While you’re searching, maybe look up these search terms:

“Porn geoblocking”
“Age verification”
“Device-based aged verification”
“Porn blocking apps”
“Restricted to Adults (RTA) label”
“Ineffective, Unconstitutional, and Dangerous: The Problem with Age Verification Mandates”
“How Age Verification Will Put Small Porn Sites Out Of Business”
“How Do I Tell My Local Representative That Age Verification Sucks?”