The minister assures that the “prohibitionist logics” are not “effective” and is committed to sexual education to discourage the consumption of pornographic content
“Prohibitionist logic is going to be difficult to be effective.” Under this premise, the Minister of Equality, Irene Monterohas ratified that not a supporter to prevent access to porn for minors despite the fact that, as he has pointed out, “some studies say that the average age of initiation of access to pornography it’s eight years old […]an enormously young age”.
Montero has thus ratified the news published by EL PERIÓDICO in February, when this medium revealed that neither PSOE nor Podemos planned to comply with the coalition agreementwhich marks that this legislature promotes “the reinforced protection of minors to prevent access to pornography”; a measure that France and other countries want to impose despite the technological difficulties involved, in addition to the fact that verifying the age of an Internet user could contravene the data protection law.
The Minister for Equality has argued this Wednesday that “ban“the access of minors to pornographic content “is not going to prevent boys and girls from accessing that content that exists on the networks” and which can be “access very easily“. Spanish data protection legislation already requires web pages to verify the age of their users, but the large porn platforms they just put a button All you have to do is click on it and confirm that you are an adult to gain access.
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In this scenario, Montero has ensured that “the solution” involves “educating, educating and educating” and for this reason the ‘yes is yes’ law “emphasizes” the need to teach sex education at all stages, “because it is a child’s right” and it would help him to get to know his own body, “to talk about consent from the beginning […] to know how to identify violence from a young age and to ask for help”.
Montero has recognized, in an interview with RNE, that other measures can be approved but “the fundamental issue” is “education, prevention and sensitization in all spheres of society”, so that minors can “identify the violencenot reproduce it and know how to ask for help”. Likewise, he has opted to build “a society free of violence” and “eliminate that violent pornography that reproduces stereotypes”.