The term “safe porn” targets the audience, the final customers – so you and me. But what exactly makes a porn website secure? And what’s wrong with mainstream porn sites? Aren’t they also safe?
While porn has to be ethical and female-friendly to protect the industry’s workers, there’s one more term that targets the audience: Safe Porn. The phrase stands for the protection of the users.
What does safe porn actually mean?
Safe adult sites include various forms of user protection, including virus-free content, advertisement-free-enjoyment, no pop-ups, no data selling, and quality data protection. On the other hand, most mainstream porn websites lack these and exploit both their workers and users.
Safe adult sides make sure that you are a well-served customer: they consider your needs and respect your person. CHEEX doesn’t want to sell you anything besides its safe, female-friendly, and ethical services. It won’t exploit your data and won’t steal your time with annoying pop-ups.
The criteria for safe porn include:
- An adult site with no advertisement
- Safe porn sites don't do data-selling
- The lack of pop-ups on safe porn sites
- You won't get viruses on safe adult sites
- Safe adult sites protect your data
- Safe porn sites are more likely to be ethical and sex-positive as well.
What's so wrong with not-so-safe porn sites?
You might be wondering what’s the whole fuss about safe porn. There’ve been advertisements for years, and it’s better to have free-of-charge porn anyway. Right?
A Netflix documentary called The Social Dilemma exactly describes how two-sided internet companies function. On the one hand, there is the platform. On the other side of the coin, there are the users who pay or don’t pay for the platform’s services. The online company has to make a profit; otherwise, it wouldn’t make sense to operate the business. If the users don’t pay, someone else has to. The main takeaway of that documentary is that if you’re not paying for a product, then you’re the product.
Paying for porn makes you the customer.
Let me explain. Your attention costs money. Companies pay for mainstream porn websites to share their ads and therefore market their products or services. You’re literally the product that is sold to advertising companies. As many people visit free-of-charge pornography websites, there are many to show advertisements to.
You're not the customer of a mainstream porn side: you're the product that is sold.
You might think you don’t purchase anything anyway, so unsafe porn websites can’t harm you. Wrong. Free-of-charge porn sites can monetize your person differently. Besides advertisements, they can sell your data. The website you visit can track which videos, which advertisements you’re interested in with cookies. They collect the users’ data and sell it to companies who’re happy to work with it to create better ads, products, or services.
But let’s distance ourselves from the “we’re the product” argument for a second because unsafe porn websites can harm you one more way. You can get viruses from porn sites with massive traffic. And that’s usually the main characteristic of a mainstream website: they attract many users, as they’re free-of-charge. At the same time, they attract hackers. Cybercriminals will target big porn sites because, this way, they can harm many people, which is, unfortunately, their ultimate goal. In short, unsafe adult sites can surprise your computer with a virus.
The last drop in the ocean is that unsafe websites are usually also unethical. If you don’t pay for your porn, you risk promoting the exploitation of sex workers. You also risk watching nonconsensual videos. There are plenty of rape videos out there, and thanks to the unsafe websites, the victims can replay their rape over and over again.
Safe porn is quality porn. Choose responsibly.
To protect yourself, your data, and the actors of the videos, feel free to join the new porn wave. It’s safe, ethical, and female-friendly.