Alex, the first part of this article left me in tears. The facts are astonishing. As a father to two daughters this is a concern for me on a personal level. My eldest is now 22 and has bought her first property with her childhood sweetheart and all seems well, but my youngest is 17 and on the autistic spectrum. We have had to protect her from the internet. Twice we have intercepted groomers and that was through heavily guarded apps that she has on her iPad.
I have cruised through life without really thinking about the hard hitting truth that the whole pornography industry leaves in its wake, I've just thought it's not for me. Its horrific! What a blinkered fool I have been.
You have educated me hugely in this article and for that I thank you. Please don't stop fighting for our girls and women. Without this kind of work it will never be challenged.
In either 1971 or 72 (I can't remember which) I was one of about 100,000 people who walked through central London to gather in Trafalgar Square and protest about the porn being circulated in the UK at that time. Mary Whitehouse was there, as were Ciff Richard, James Fox (Laurence's father and Edward's brother), Lord Longford and thousands of Christians and other concerned people. Just like with today's mainstream media, the event was ignored because too many of the people in power had vested interests. There IS such a thing as evil and the Festival of Light (preceded by the lighting of alarm flares all over the country) was deliberately "overlooked" by the television and newspaper "elites". They have a lot to answer for. Many of them are dead now and I believe they will have had to answer to God. Today's "elites" (I prefer to call them self-entitleds) should think about what waits for them when their lives on this earth are over.
Excellent article Alex. The constant drip, drip, drip of this sexualised culture since I can remember as a child until present day has a lot to answer for. It destroys entire lives, relationships, marriages and peoples mental and emotional outlooks. Take it from one who knows. It's very sad but has become another one of the modern day addictions as you touched upon, like gambling or alcoholism/drugs.
This is all so true and I've thought it for 40 years. If people can commit murder after radicalisation or from watching violence then after watching porn they can go on to rape or murder
Thanks for writing this Alex, I've not seen such an accurate summing up of the situation regarding rape and abuse stemming from porn in our society. I totally agree it needs to stop but I know certain people will think it's their human right to view porn! We live in a very self centred society and I can't help think this is all part of a bigger picture. Sigh.
The liberal argument that you don't have to look at this stuff is dishonest. If you make material freely available and promote it through popular culture, of course young people will view it.
When I was young, pre-internet, each country set its own rules. The UK was relatively strict and for most teenage boys, porn was page 3 of The Sun.
I can't help feeling that there has been a deliberate attempt by those in authority to trash traditional and Christian values.
Excellent point. I have been destroyed by it, despite trying to be a Christian since 2011. The damage was already done between 1990 and 2010, and now I am trying to pick up the pieces of my own broken family, after coming from a broken family as a child which was destroyed by lust and adultery. However, I still have faith that The Lord can restore everything, as He did with my own parents broken marriage. This problem is so widespread and all the points raised here are valid in terms of the root diagnosis.
I can't argue a case for the availability of free extreme porn. There is no argument for it that does not stray into obvious evil. But whereas most of this gathered pace and visibility in my 30s and 40s, the children of today have no chance to live in a society free of it and that's terrifying.
They have had no chance to be free of it.
I have to mention the LGBTQIA++ aspect. I'm tempted to take the L and G off, because those sexualities are so passé these days, so normalised, as we've seen with lesbian and gay folk being drawn into the trans debate (especially lesbians who refuse to have sex with a 'trans woman'). It is specifically the Queer part that needs to be addressed in the context of this article. 'Queering' is something deliberately aimed at creating a sexualised identity in young children, with the concept of the nuclear family an open target which the Queer agenda seeks to devalue and destabilise, along with other societal 'norms'.
Think 'drag queen story time'. You don't hear about drag queen hospital visits or prisoner outreach do you?
The Queer takeover of Pride is total these days, so now what used to be a march for rights, recognition and acceptance is instead a parade of hypersexualisation, transhumanist agendas and the kind of 'acceptance' that saw two men dressed in 'puppy' leathers talking with a young girl last year at one event.
Guys, please follow Jennifer Bilek. There you can learn why the trans question and other related topics suddenly found their way into our kids syllabuses. Clue: it's the medical-industrial complex...
(Alex, my rent isn't free either (annoyingly!), but I think I'm going to have to find some extra pennies to subscribe, I've read a few of your pieces and they've been excellent and important ones 👏🏼).
Spot on Alex, good to see someone coming out and saying what is needed to be said. I'm against generally government interventions into our lives, but particularly for the young this needs to be controlled, as it is damaging young inquisitive minds.
You said "The biggest online free pornsite Pornhub had to delete a staggering 80% of its content in late 2020 because it was of either child abuse or rape." but I don't believe this is accurate? They deleted/removed all videos by unverified users.
I am really angry at all the people that did not see this sooner. It would be great for someone to tell us all we have been right for twenty years. We laugh at CSA being a rite of passage into puberty like its a joke.
Porn is part of why women have had their rights obliterated. When did we lose our modesty and forget why we are beautifully female? If we don’t respect ourselves then why should others? It’s a very skewed way of looking at women.
You do know that every modern device with an operating system offers robust parental controls, right? If you actually want to limit kids’ and teenagers’ access to porn, you can—across all household devices. Router-level filters, software, and built-in settings make it possible. Sure, there are workarounds, but combining these tools makes it difficult enough that most won’t bother trying.
Alex, the first part of this article left me in tears. The facts are astonishing. As a father to two daughters this is a concern for me on a personal level. My eldest is now 22 and has bought her first property with her childhood sweetheart and all seems well, but my youngest is 17 and on the autistic spectrum. We have had to protect her from the internet. Twice we have intercepted groomers and that was through heavily guarded apps that she has on her iPad.
I have cruised through life without really thinking about the hard hitting truth that the whole pornography industry leaves in its wake, I've just thought it's not for me. Its horrific! What a blinkered fool I have been.
You have educated me hugely in this article and for that I thank you. Please don't stop fighting for our girls and women. Without this kind of work it will never be challenged.
In either 1971 or 72 (I can't remember which) I was one of about 100,000 people who walked through central London to gather in Trafalgar Square and protest about the porn being circulated in the UK at that time. Mary Whitehouse was there, as were Ciff Richard, James Fox (Laurence's father and Edward's brother), Lord Longford and thousands of Christians and other concerned people. Just like with today's mainstream media, the event was ignored because too many of the people in power had vested interests. There IS such a thing as evil and the Festival of Light (preceded by the lighting of alarm flares all over the country) was deliberately "overlooked" by the television and newspaper "elites". They have a lot to answer for. Many of them are dead now and I believe they will have had to answer to God. Today's "elites" (I prefer to call them self-entitleds) should think about what waits for them when their lives on this earth are over.
Excellent article Alex. The constant drip, drip, drip of this sexualised culture since I can remember as a child until present day has a lot to answer for. It destroys entire lives, relationships, marriages and peoples mental and emotional outlooks. Take it from one who knows. It's very sad but has become another one of the modern day addictions as you touched upon, like gambling or alcoholism/drugs.
The girls are confronted now by boys with insane hard porn initiated visions of the female sex.
It's disastrous for our teenagers. Of both sexes.
This is all so true and I've thought it for 40 years. If people can commit murder after radicalisation or from watching violence then after watching porn they can go on to rape or murder
Thanks for writing this Alex, I've not seen such an accurate summing up of the situation regarding rape and abuse stemming from porn in our society. I totally agree it needs to stop but I know certain people will think it's their human right to view porn! We live in a very self centred society and I can't help think this is all part of a bigger picture. Sigh.
The liberal argument that you don't have to look at this stuff is dishonest. If you make material freely available and promote it through popular culture, of course young people will view it.
When I was young, pre-internet, each country set its own rules. The UK was relatively strict and for most teenage boys, porn was page 3 of The Sun.
I can't help feeling that there has been a deliberate attempt by those in authority to trash traditional and Christian values.
Excellent point. I have been destroyed by it, despite trying to be a Christian since 2011. The damage was already done between 1990 and 2010, and now I am trying to pick up the pieces of my own broken family, after coming from a broken family as a child which was destroyed by lust and adultery. However, I still have faith that The Lord can restore everything, as He did with my own parents broken marriage. This problem is so widespread and all the points raised here are valid in terms of the root diagnosis.
Great article.
I can't argue a case for the availability of free extreme porn. There is no argument for it that does not stray into obvious evil. But whereas most of this gathered pace and visibility in my 30s and 40s, the children of today have no chance to live in a society free of it and that's terrifying.
They have had no chance to be free of it.
I have to mention the LGBTQIA++ aspect. I'm tempted to take the L and G off, because those sexualities are so passé these days, so normalised, as we've seen with lesbian and gay folk being drawn into the trans debate (especially lesbians who refuse to have sex with a 'trans woman'). It is specifically the Queer part that needs to be addressed in the context of this article. 'Queering' is something deliberately aimed at creating a sexualised identity in young children, with the concept of the nuclear family an open target which the Queer agenda seeks to devalue and destabilise, along with other societal 'norms'.
Think 'drag queen story time'. You don't hear about drag queen hospital visits or prisoner outreach do you?
The Queer takeover of Pride is total these days, so now what used to be a march for rights, recognition and acceptance is instead a parade of hypersexualisation, transhumanist agendas and the kind of 'acceptance' that saw two men dressed in 'puppy' leathers talking with a young girl last year at one event.
Guys, please follow Jennifer Bilek. There you can learn why the trans question and other related topics suddenly found their way into our kids syllabuses. Clue: it's the medical-industrial complex...
(Alex, my rent isn't free either (annoyingly!), but I think I'm going to have to find some extra pennies to subscribe, I've read a few of your pieces and they've been excellent and important ones 👏🏼).
And what about women? If you want to talk about men and porn, let’s not forget about young women whoring themselves out on Onlyfans.
Spot on Alex, good to see someone coming out and saying what is needed to be said. I'm against generally government interventions into our lives, but particularly for the young this needs to be controlled, as it is damaging young inquisitive minds.
You said "The biggest online free pornsite Pornhub had to delete a staggering 80% of its content in late 2020 because it was of either child abuse or rape." but I don't believe this is accurate? They deleted/removed all videos by unverified users.
I am really angry at all the people that did not see this sooner. It would be great for someone to tell us all we have been right for twenty years. We laugh at CSA being a rite of passage into puberty like its a joke.
Porn is part of why women have had their rights obliterated. When did we lose our modesty and forget why we are beautifully female? If we don’t respect ourselves then why should others? It’s a very skewed way of looking at women.
You do know that every modern device with an operating system offers robust parental controls, right? If you actually want to limit kids’ and teenagers’ access to porn, you can—across all household devices. Router-level filters, software, and built-in settings make it possible. Sure, there are workarounds, but combining these tools makes it difficult enough that most won’t bother trying.