Behind the scenes of the finished product porn consumers see online, there are literally screams of the girls between scenes often saying things like, “Please stop,” and, “I said I didn’t want to do this,” and, “Please, this hurts,” and, “Hey, don’t do that.”
Meet Tevan Tobler, a 16-year-old honor student who was the former president of the National Junior Honor Society, a champion high school wrestler, and an active member in his local community. He’s also a victim of sextortion and took his own life as a result.
“As a young boy, I was sexually assaulted many times. Not only was I forced to do things, this person introduced me to porn before I was 10 years old.”
“I’m not a pedophile, I’m attracted to adult women. I was just so addicted to porn that I could only get the same high with content that was ‘taboo.'”
“Upon realizing what I had done, and have been doing all these years, I was sickened. Because that’s the truth: porn flattens people into images and ignores their humanity.”
When I returned to the film set, groggy from the pills, the room was filled. Over 20 people stood around, focused on the couch in the middle of the room.
“These images I’ve seen stay with me. When I walk across campus and see so many beautiful girls, all I see are body parts.”
We sat down with YouTuber Chaz Smith and asked all about what it’s like to decidedly go against the grain of pop culture by speaking out about porn. Here’s what he had to say.
“I feel like porn just ruins relationships and can ruin men’s/women’s self-esteem if their partner continues to watch it.”
“I worked at the front desk of a brothel, and the sex buyers wanted exactly what was in porn. They would complain to me if they did not get it.”
What started as a chance viewing of magazines has evolved into a full-blown struggle with consuming violent porn focused on pain and humiliation.
“I was 16 when a secret online crush introduced me to the world of anime. As a sheltered daughter from a conservative home, I was instantly enamored.”
