The Porn Industry Offers Us a Glimpse Into The Future; and the Future Looks Very Bleak Indeed

[TomFarr10101]

Hi all,

Some months ago I published this article about Gender self-ID that seemed to go down very well on mumsnet.

medium.com/@tom_farr/the-left-are-abandoning-women-and-in-doing-so-abandoning-everything-they-stand-for-51fd63457d8c

Thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3206756-Labour-are-abandoning-women?pg=1&order=

I've just published this article, focusing on the effects pornography has on cultivating relationships, specifically amongst young children. I worked closely with leading academic Gail Dines on it, and her organisation Culture Reframed is aimed at engaging parents when it comes to the health crisis of pornography. The article is below anyway, any I hope you enjoy it if you do read it. Any questions, please feel free to ask away.

medium.com/@tom_farr/the-porn-industry-offers-us-a-glimpse-into-the-future-and-the-future-looks-very-bleak-indeed-86eeac0d229

Gail will be speaking in London on Weds 18th July, details of tickets etc can be found in the article.

Tom

PS - I can't log in on my old account, hence the new one, for anyone wondering.

Clicky links:
medium.com/@tom_farr/the-left-are-abandoning-women-and-in-doing-so-abandoning-everything-they-stand-for-51fd63457d8c

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3206756-Labour-are-abandoning-women?pg=1&order=

medium.com/@tom_farr/the-porn-industry-offers-us-a-glimpse-into-the-future-and-the-future-looks-very-bleak-indeed-86eeac0d229

Tom, I've appreciated your writing and comments, thank you.

Can it get much bleaker than now for girls and women?

I love Gail and her work. Will check out the link and have enjoyed your previous articles

Thanks so much, and thanks for the clicky links!

What an important article and research. It feels so helpless in terms of knowing how to begin to tackle the toxic impact of porn. Having to spend so much time and energy just trying to protect women and children's rights to have safety and boundaries is exhausting and then to even contemplate how to address this?

We really are staring into the abyss.

Pornography is a plague. It is awful, awful, awful. We need to teach our children to avoid it at all costs, because it will shut down all opportunities for a healthy, happy adult relationship.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43795806

Soon UK citizens will have to prove their age to watch online porn

Adding to my reading list. No chance of there being a ted x talk in the future Tom? Would make a great accessible platform for the research.

Great idea, add my vote.

Depressing read. Thank you for writing it.

The normalisation of pornography and prostitution scares and worries me far, far more than trans rights issues (the latter of which to be honest beyond some of the sheer silliness doesn't bother me that much).

I really don't buy into the end of civilisation as we know it/erasure of women's rights line so far as trans issues but pornography and the normalisation of prostitution are genuinely dangerous.

the event looks really interesting thanks.

and i have also enjoyed your articles.

Great article. Why this issue is not considered urgent and serious by the powers that be, I can't fathom.

Why this issue is not considered urgent and serious by the powers that be, I can't fathom

Because they're all pornsick I suspect

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/08/parliament-reports-24000-attempts-to-access-pornographic-websites-since-election

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/three-judges-sacked-for-watching-porn-on-court-computers-10112935.html

Oh fgs. Those judges should be ashamed of themselves.

When computers first became a thing at work one of the big insurance companies sacked an employee for watching porn on a work pc. The loathsome individual took them to an industrial tribunal and won because they hadn't explicitly said in the employee handbook that watching porn in the office on office equipment wasn't allowed.

Thanks Tom. So depressing. Massive problem for us all.

Really interesting event. I can't make the Lecture on the 18th - how can we help you make this more widely available?

Thank you for reading. Just sharing the article and/or the event details around on Twitter/Facebook etc helps boost the profile of it. I've written previously about porn on my Medium account (above) so there's some other stuff there too if you're keen to know more. Thank again!