TLDR: there is still more that can be done to make your users feel the porn is being made ethically and the site is truly setting the standard for accountability and compliance. Give your models a platform to have a voice and hold producers accountable, fix payment processing, improve 2257 documents, add RTA and ASACP certifications, add parental controls, and surface all the compliance work you are doing to create the new standard onto your landing page so users see it.
Grab a coffee this is a long one.
Let me start by saying by no means do I want this to come off as disrespectful, these are only my views and opinions on how to make users feel more comfortable in the site as it’s rebranded as sexual wellness.
I appreciate how engaged the SLR team is with their users and how active the forums are. It gives a voice to the users and helps build a community around a great product. Honestly I stop into the forum before looking at the new videos now.
doublevr i agree with catflap on this one. It’s great that SLR takes compliance seriously and you say it isn’t a problem but saying it, and making users existing and especially new truly believe it are two different things. If you truly believe there isn’t anything shady going on with any vent content producer anywhere I fear that may be a head in the sand approach. Instead actively seek it out to weed out any problems before it turns into a porn hub situation years later.
Don’t be Nike in the 90s providing lip service to the public while knowing there are sweatshop conditions going on in the factories. https://www.newidea.com.au/nike-sweatshops-the-truth-about-the-nike-factory-scandal
RTA Parental controls, & ASACP
SLR is the only porn site in recent memory that doesn’t have an RTA overlay on the landing page, or an RTA logo/link in the footer. There is no mention of parental controls or safe browsing guidelines. There is no link to asacp certification. There are no brag links to articles about SLR were mentioned in well known publications (like vrporn.com)
2257 & MasterCard
Finally the 2257 statement puts the onus on the user to go out to all the dozens of studios to validate they have a 2257 compliance location instead of listing all the information for the user (like xhamster a top 5 largest porn site https://xhamster.com/info/2257 ). Or even better stating in your 2257 statement that you are keeping records of all information now because while SLR is not an American company required by law to keep that information, In all your compliance work to be compliant with MasterCard processing which is an American company any porn site must keep records of all performers and content depicted on their site regardless if they are producer or a secondary service. https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/protecting-our-network-protecting-you-preventing-illegal-adult-content-on-our-network/
If you have all that information listed above there is no reason why you can’t use the metadata from the video to post the publication date of video under its if and model age at publication under the model in the video details.
Payment processing
A final note about MasterCard is finding a way to make us payment processing work better. Many have stated on other threads that billing fails because most US payment processors don’t work with epoch in EU but how does your general user know that is the reason and not some other reason like MC flagged this as a non-compliant site .
Surface your compliance work.
After all of this there could be blog posts or even something in your banner spinner that link to all the compliance work you are doing and surface it for all users to see, instead of burying this information deep within the forum. It could even show what the various rules are country by country and how you have cataloged them all
Models
Hold your producers to the highest standards, provide interviews with the models, give them a platform to speak so we know they want to be here and like doing this, and don’t feel coerced, forced or that they don’t have a voice. https://goat.com.au/relationships/mia-khalifa-speaks-out-shining-a-troubling-light-on-the-porn-industry/?amp You see in this post Mia Khalifa talk about her bad experience, but still defends people’s choices and pushes for ethical porn practices while Abella Danger defends the industry. There are different views, and I know me as a user I want to make sure models are being treated on the ethical side of the industry, and have a way to tell/show us that with interviews on their profiles, or special Live AMAs during a shoot in your live section. In addition to providing them a place to speak it all translates to views for you and site . People like hearing from the real model look at the gabby Carter interview 45k views in 1 month. https://youtu.be/8UZ8beflRb0
I’m Sure this post isn’t going to win me any friends here after reading all the comments on the compliance thread but at the end of the day if it’s about becoming a site synonymous with sexual health and wellness then users need to feel like they are in a safe space and not in some shady site on the internet.
I’m sorry for the long post but this is something I have been thinking about for a while as I have silently watched this and the various compliance threads grow over time.
