Four senators must present, Wednesday, the first parliamentary report on the subject, including “Le Monde” was aware, and who adopts a decided tone and muscular proposals against a “toxic” industry, which they hope to regulate strongly.
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“This is the first time that I have been working on a subject on which there is no institutional bibliography, no report, nothing.” And for Laurence Rossignol, socialist vice-president of the Senate and co-reporter, Sides of senators Annick Billon (UDI, Vendée), Alexandra Borchio-Fontimp (Les Républicains, Alpes-Maritimes) and Laurence Cohen (Communist Party, Val-de-Marne), of the first parliamentary report on the pornographic industry, this lack of ‘interest in the subject is no coincidence. “The male resistance to make these subjects political subjects is very great.”
of different political sensitivities, the four rapporteurs display a united front in the document they must publish, Wednesday, September 28, and of which Le Monde learned, after six months of work and dozens of hearings. As they pointed out in their foreword, it is for them “to finally open the eyes of all to this system of violence”, illustrated by the sprawling French Bukkake, named after Pascal Ollitraut, for which Judicial information was opened, in October 2020, for “trafficking in aggravated human beings, rape in meeting, aggravated pimps”; But also “to initiate a public debate on the practices of the porn industry and on its very existence”.
Pornography has long been confined to the cinemas, or erected as a symbol of the liberation of manners, has long been confined. The Internet has profoundly transformed production as well as consumption, which has become as massive as it is precocious: “two thirds of children under the age of 15 and a third of those under 12 have already been exposed to pornographic images, voluntarily or involuntarily. Almost a third of boys under the age of 15 go to a porn site at least once a month, “notes the report. With deep consequences on the psyche and on the representation of sexuality and women.
“Stop looking away”
“What we mean, sums up Laurence Rossignol is that the porn industry is toxic in its mode of manufacture and consumption. It colonizes the brains.” For rapporteurs, “we must become aware That it is a problem of public policy, we must stop looking away. ” In France, the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) estimates that 19.3 million people (a third of Internet users) consult online porn, minors representing 12 % of this audience. If this massification did the business of a few large groups – in the first place the Canadian giant Mindgeek (Pornhub, Redtube, Youporn …) and in France the ARES groups (Jacquie and Michel) and Dorcel – she also led to a massive casualization of others Industry actors, first of all the actresses.
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