Is pornography illegal?

• The strict interpretation of this definition should lead to asserting that pornography is a form of pimp. However, this is not the case. “Due to a particular cultural relationship to pornography, industry is not worried,” said Arnaud Casado, author of a thesis on the subject. The argument of the sector in question: the pornographic work is artistic and does not imply any contact between the spectator and the actors. “These objections are ineffective, since jurisprudence does not require that these contacts take place between the service provider and the sponsor, and is indifferent to the artistic dimension,” says the lawyer.
• In his judgment of May 14, Regarding the trial of a pornographic site accused of disseminating videos in which the actresses were deceived on the conditions of the shooting (1), the Court of Cassation recalls the jurisprudence of 1996, making a link between pornography and prostitution. It thus gives a possible angle of attack to feminist associations. If these sites were prohibited, the Arcom, authority in charge of audiovisual and digital regulation, could block them. Admittedly, there are virtual private networks (VPN) which make it possible to bypass these restrictions, but justice may require from the latter that they make access to these platforms impossible.

(1) French Bukkake affair.