The 1975 have always been a controversial band - a lot of what he says is part of a persona/character and plays into the trope of a wayward out of control rock star who’s pushing boundaries.
The masturbating to violent degrading porn alluded to was a quip on a podcast when he laughed as SOMEONE ELSE mentioned a porn site called Ghetto Gaggers. I don’t know if its a real site (not going to check) and clearly the whole convo went a bit ‘locker room’.
He’s since apologised and goes to great lengths to admit when he fucks up. He’s done it a lot!
But he’s grown up in a showbiz family with addiction issues, so of course he’s going to be a bit fucked up!
He’s absolutely not racist, sexist or homophobic, but he gets labelled as such all the time, despite championing female artists, having relationships with women of colour (and at the very least kissing other men). People just latch on to one stupid joke and think that represents the whole man.
Maybe instead of clutching at headlines, imagine for one moment that every stupid thing you ever said got published online. Sometimes people mess up. We’re all human.
And I love Taylor too, but we hear only her side of the story on TTPD, I’d love to hear his!