If you thought US religious conservatives had a monopoly on unhinged, crackpot theories about the porn industry, and calls for state censorship and broad criminalization of all sexual expression...
Check out the notions of this French government office led by rabid SWERFs:
https://www.xbiz.com/news/276952/french-government-report-urges-criminalization-of-adult-industry
Adult videos, HCE the report proclaims, "meet the legal definition of acts of torture and barbarism."
The report makes no distinction between consensual and unconsensual sex, acting and not acting, or even fiction and reality.
@gustavoturner I dunno what is up with Europe lately.
Updated after double checking.
International Justice Mission (a group with a clearly religious name, and a bit of a negative reputation) made a submission to insert "written story" into chat control (what critics call the E.U.'s think of the children surveillance proposal).
This would target things like literature, and probably even someone talking about things which happened to them. It is so monumentally stupid.
One of the countries where they have a branch, Germany, seemed a bit confused about fiction and reality. Conflating fiction with abuse in '21 and '22, particularly when it came to cartoons and literature (same window of time). This is troublesome because they're *not* the same.
With this particular report, these are strong assertions. Do they have any evidence whatsoever? Presumably evidence that doesn't involve looking for any keyword which someone could spin to be "related to" these things?
I suspect it's probably someone like Laila who conflates fantasy with reality, and is prone to talking in an exaggerated fashion.
