Seems like a business opportunity for another website to take that niche, a "Porntreon" if you will.
If you want to be a global platform, morales are tricky to get right.
I believe it's best to let the consumer decide. Force people to mark their content as adult and hide adult content by default. Maybe with age verification to enable it, for countries that want that?
There are, of course, things which are not suitable for children, frightening things, disturbing things, content related to immoral behavior.
But if you ask an American, the destruction of life is far more suitable for children than it's creation. Patreon has no qualms hosting videos fantasizing mass murder and death [1] even when those videos are obviously aimed at children [2]. Is this really family friendliness or merely some strange flaw in our psychology without moral or philosophic basis?
[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/dreadnought-epic-13951713 [2] https://www.patreon.com/posts/103684
That is not pornography but a crime.
Somebody that watches videos or looks at photos does not "actually know what is happening". They are trusting this exercise to the distributor, and if the distributor is just a medium that does not concern themselves with checking for consent (e.g. most free sites), then you have just delegated to somebody this is not performing this work for you. In that case, you have no way of being able to gauge whether some pornography has had somebody else's consent or not.
Consider also, the idea that not all pornographic actresses/actors are happy with having their content distributed to non-paying consumers, and I think it's highly likely that you and people you know have broken the law and not received consent for at least some of the content you've viewed.
I will, however, grant that there are tremendous problems with the porn industry. That is absolutely besides the point. These problems are:
A) not unique in any way to porn. Large quantities of clothing and tennis shoes are made by indentured child laborers.
B) only go to further cement my opinion that the actual actresses should be paid for their work.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_film_industry_regulation...
It is because of our barbaric taboos against women who appear in porn that revenge porn has power. It is because of our barbaric taboos that the porn industry is so shady. We should fight those taboos, and fight for the dignity of porn actresses.
These flaws in the industry are all the more reason to pay the actresses directly through Patreon. Why should we get our pornography through shady websites on which there is no accountability as to the origin of the images?