Pornography: The Other Pandemic
By roubicekandthacker At this time of national emergency due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus, everyone’s lives have been affec
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By roubicekandthacker At this time of national emergency due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus, everyone’s lives have been affec
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By Shawn Bonneteau Like most of us, COVID-19 has caused some tremendous change in our everyday life. You may be feeling emotions, experiencing things, and dealing with situations you have never had to deal with before. When our world gets turned upside down, sometimes we do too. This may look very different for each one […]
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By antiplondon On March 21, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the country would go on lockdown in response to COVID-19. She explained: “We are fortunate to still be some way behind the majority of overseas countries in terms of cases, but the trajectory is clear. Act now, or risk the virus taking […]
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By antiplondon Lisa is one of a number of young women who have told the BBC they have been pressured into acts of violence in the bedroom. She says she willingly “got together” with a guy she “kind of knew” at a house party but was shocked when he began repeatedly biting down on her […]
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By Sathiya Sam Let’s be real; COVID-19 is changing everything in our lives right now. Cities are shut down, people are confined to their homes, and the economy is extremely volatile. We are living in unprecedented times. The most concerning element of this pandemic is how many people are stuck at home, left to their […]
Read More →By antiplondon There are two contradictory trends identified in reports about young people’s sex lives. One is that they are virtually celibate, too busy playing Fortnite, watching porn, scrolling through Instagram or otherwise living screen-mediated lives to actually connect with another human being. The other is that “hook-up culture” and a plethora of Tinder-type swipe […]
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By antiplondon It’s no secret that today’s children are guinea pigs in a colossal porn experiment. Whereas (mostly) boys of previous generations might have passed around a filched copy of Playboy, today anyone with a broadband connection can instantly access anything you can imagine — and a whole lot of stuff you don’t want to […]
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By Richard De La Mora What’s wrong with porn? “Does porn affect me? There’s nothing wrong with it. I’m not hurting anybody. It won’t harm me or my marriage. So what is the big deal with watching porn?” Let’s put it this way, “What’s wrong with smoking cigarettes? They aren’t hurting me. I run a […]
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By antiplondon When Marco first met his new foster father, his reaction was one of relief. Not yet six, he had taken to wandering the streets of West Berlin to escape an abusive father who beat him so hard that his legs would bleed. By contrast, Fritz Henkel — a man in his late forties […]
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By antiplondon When I first encountered feminism, in 1979, aged 17, there was one story I heard about over and over from the activists I was hanging out with: the direct action that disrupted the 1970 Miss World competition, in front of a live audience of 100 million TV viewers worldwide, 20 million of them […]
Read More →By antiplondon Internet companies must do more to tackle “an explosion” in images of child sex abuse on their platforms, a UK-held inquiry has concluded. The panel also said the technology companies had “failed to demonstrate” they were fully aware of the number of under-13s using their services and lacked a plan to combat the […]
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By Sathiya Sam Pornography is a prevalent commodity in our society today, with over 2 billion pornographic websites on the internet. Things weren’t always this way. As recently as 20-30 years ago, porn existed in magazines & secret rooms of local convenience stores. While these media forms were hidden, they were common. Pornography is media-based, […]
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By antiplondon One day, just after I had dropped my son off at school, I was sent a horrific video on WhatsApp. It made me question how images and videos of child sex abuse come to be made, and how they can be openly circulated on social media. And I wanted one answer above all […]
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By antiplondon Two victims of a bizarre social experiment in which Berlin’s city hall deliberately placed troubled children in the care of paedophiles are on the brink of winning compensation. From 1969 to 2003 the authorities put at least nine boys in the hands of convicted sex offenders on the advice of a disgraced social […]
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By Cap Stewart When the doctor told Nathan that he had the lungs of a heavy smoker, he protested, “I never smoked a day in my life!” What he failed to take into account was that the casino where he worked allowed public smoking. He eventually quit his job at the casino. Unfortunately, it was […]
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By antiplondon My gratitude to whoever it was who complained to the Guardian about this article this morning; I saw it myself, and archived the page, but had other things to do today before I could write a complaint email. It’s still worth spelling out the arguments: rape is not work; a commercially raped child […]
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By antiplondon When Adam Lazarus complained about a seven-year-old boy putting his hands on his daughter at school, he was told not to cry sexual assault. “They don’t think like that,” the teachers said, “not at that age.” “But it’s power,” Lazarus seethes, recounting the incident. “It’s gendered power, and if you excuse it this […]
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By Brittni De La Mora The Routined Couple We are a very routine couple. Richard wakes up every day at 5 am to grab a coffee and seek the Lord. I, on the other hand, am routine when it comes to health and fitness. I work out 5-6 days a week and eat the same […]
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By antiplondon Last Sunday, a number of Pornhub’s most popular Asian performers took to the runway at New York Fashion Week to model the “Herotica” collection from Namilia. The designers behind the label, Nan Li and Emilia Pfohl, described their choice of models as a “feminist statement.” Li explained, “The cosmos of sexual pleasure has […]
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By antiplondon Crimes have a tendency to become not just stories but genres, once we get too accustomed to them. As more and more stories of sexual assault have been made public in the last two years, the genre of their telling has exploded. One thing we often do with narratives of sexual assault is […]
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By Richard De La Mora Men and Women Communicate Differently. Let’s face it; men and women communicate differently. Some would even say we speak different languages. Never have I found this statement to be more accurate until marriage. When men communicate, they often talk with the “give them the meat, throw away the bone mentality.” […]
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By Kris Rios The Month of Love is Here February has finally approached us again. Draped on every storefront in our small town of Santa Barbara are heart cut-outs, pictures of cupid, and of course, the signs that read buy him/her the perfect gift this year. As I curiously looked at all the decorative love […]
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By antiplondon When it comes to sexual assault, victims are often deemed to be not perfect enough: their sexual history too louche, their behaviour afterwards too wild. Yet predators pick off the vulnerable and survivors sometimes process trauma in deeply damaged and self-destructive ways. Instead of these factors being taken as evidence that something terrible […]
Read More →By Brittni De La Mora Statistics say that 56% of divorce cases involved one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites. Today’s last and final episode of eXXXamine – Real & Raw Conversations About Porn & Purity was vital for me to bring to you because of this alarming statistic. If 56% of divorces […]
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By Antonio Morra “Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” (NASB) -Romans 6:11 I fought with porn for more than 10 years I fought with porn and lust for over ten years. I felt like nothing could help me. I felt like I was living in […]
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By antiplondon Teenagers are being exposed to graphic images on social media that promote life-threatening sexual acts, such as strangulation and erotic asphyxiation, prompting concerns that this is “normal” for a generation. An investigation by this newspaper has uncovered hundreds of images of sexualised choking and strangulation on the virtual scrapbook Pinterest, the photo-sharing platform […]
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By Brittni De La Mora In episode 8 of eXXXamine, I had a real & raw conversation about porn & purity with my friend Billy. Billy is best known for his work on the Netflix documentary After Porn Ends 1, 2, and 3. After Porn Ends is a documentary that explores the careers of various […]
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By antiplondon A senior police officer admitted that his force ignored the sexual abuse of girls by Pakistani grooming gangs for decades because it was afraid of increasing “racial tensions”, a watchdog has ruled. After a five-year investigation, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) upheld a complaint that the Rotherham officer told a missing […]
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By antiplondon Senior police officers should be prosecuted for mishandling a Greater Manchester sexual abuse scandal that resulted in most offenders getting away with their crimes, a whistleblower has said. Margaret Oliver, a former detective constable who led Greater Manchester police’s investigation into child sexual exploitation, said the force had spent years trying to cover […]
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