"The industry must make its revolution." The Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men, Bérangère Couillard, wants to tackle "violence in pornography" which "continues to grow since the advent of online porn," she wrote in a column published Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche. "Millions of videos online depict appalling torture and barbaric acts. Behind these images, there are women who suffer," she laments.
Faced with repeated scandals such as the "French Bukkake" affair, the minister wants to "act to put an end to impunity, the eroticization of very violent practices, undermining human dignity". To do this, it proposes to create a new tool, a "retroactive right to be forgotten in order to be able to remove" "content from the public sphere for those who wish it". "This right must obviously be open to all," she added, also referring to the case of "men who suffer this violence on set".
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To date, an "unlimited image rights assignment contract is imposed" on women working in this industry. "The withdrawal has become almost impossible by the dissemination on the platforms," deplores the minister who wants to "protect women who have been abused in the context of filming, whose images circulate on the Internet".
Joining forces
"It is by joining forces that we will be able to achieve these objectives, and the contribution of all will be necessary: lawyers, digital experts, producers, actors of the pornographic industry, parliamentarians, representatives of civil society... " she says. The government wants to legislate and obtain the blocking of sites that do not enforce the age control of users, a protection that is mandatory. The child protection associations, La Voix de l'Enfant and e-Enfance, are also calling for the blocking of pornographic sites that do not verify the age of minors.
