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This issue is fundamentally about consent, sexual exploitation, and treating people like people—not objects.
This issue is fundamentally about consent, sexual exploitation, and treating people like people—not objects.
Sex trafficking is a global issue in local communities, and it’s up to us to speak out when we see something that isn’t okay.
Elaine Bradley and her husband Sebastian are no strangers to the harmful effects of porn. So how have they navigated the issue within their relationship? Their intentionality with avoiding shame in conversations may surprise and inspire you.
“When the hardcore stuff stopped doing it for me, I started to search for simulated rape videos. When they ran their course, I tried to find actual rape videos.”
Dear FTND, I wanted to start this note by saying thank you. Because of you, your articles, your advocacy, and speaking out about pornography, I am overcoming…
“It’s like he’s two different people: a ‘good’ man, and an addict. It would be easy to love him if he were just a good man. It’d be easy to let him go if he was just an addict. But he’s not one—he’s both.”
One suggests it’s a healthy pastime for every teenager, while the other points to porn as being a huge contributing factor in ruining relationships. Who is more in line with research?
“Consent” will depict explicit sex scenes alongside documentary-style footage, with the claimed intent of “educating viewers about consent.” Oh, the irony of James Deen being requested to star in this.
With the increasing normalization of violent and exploitive porn, kids on the spectrum who unknowingly access illicit material are caught in the crosshairs of a booming underground industry.
Not ever having seen porn doesn’t automatically mean they’re going to be a great partner, just like exposure to porn doesn’t automatically make them a bad partner.
Like most people, I was exposed to porn at an early age. My family was verbally and emotionally abusive…porn became my substitute, and my coping mechanism.
As a therapist who works primarily with male survivors of sexual abuse, I am grateful for the conversations that Leaving Neverland has sparked. As a society, we have still yet to fully understand or recognize how boys and men experience sexual assault.