From top to bottom, the pornography industry is built on, fueled by, and perpetuates the demand for videos featuring women who never consented to their distribution — or even to being filmed. That’s according to a report titled “Not a…
Later this year, the most important free-speech case in decades will be decided by the Supreme Court, and it’s not about speech at all. It’s about common internet smut, and it’s high time the high court dispelled the modern myth…
On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton — a suit brought against the Texas law mandating that pornography websites require age verification to prevent minors from accessing sexual content online. …
A pro-porn advertisement titled “Republicans Rubbing You The Wrong Way” framed the GOP as an enemy that wants to ban porn nationwide. The ad is a $2.5 million campaign by two Democratic PACs, Progress Action Fund and Defend the Vote. The ad…
My new book on Pornhub’s reckoning, Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking, teaches that to stop online sex trafficking, we must eliminate profitability. Sex trafficking, to put it simply, is the…
Porn: everyone can see it but few will talk about it. Before photography, there were tasteful paintings at a downtown museum. Before the internet, there were tasteless videos at a few across-the-tracks theaters. Now in every man’s pocket cellphone is…
Pornography generated by artificial intelligence is a moral horror, and there is no clear solution in sight. There are more delicate ways of broaching that subject, but the conclusion seems unarguable. In mid-August, a theater employee in Florida was arrested…
For the past two years, Pornhub has been slowly losing its battle to keep pornography available to children. Pornhub — which has been credibly and repeatedly linked to widespread abuse, trafficking, sexual assault, and nonconsensual pornography — is one of…
I believe it began with the school lockdowns of 2020. Many parents got their first good look at what kids were learning in school by peeking over their shoulders during online at-home classes. There was a national backlash, particularly against…
