David French

that kids are being exposed to at a very early age.

And I think it's just warping the whole way in which the sexes are interacting with each other and exploitation is endemic to parts of the porn industry.

So I do think we need to have a real conversation about what are we allowing our children to be exposed to at an early age?

And by golly, what kind of choices are adults making?

And

I think the pornification of our culture is an aspect of this that we just don't address enough.

You know, one thing that I have seen is that people are very good at making themselves victims even when they should be held accountable.

And here's what I mean.

Every incident that I've ever looked at

involving abuse within an institution, like say the head of a ministry or in a college or a big summer camp, you have one predator maybe who's a person who has abused many, many, many people.

And it's the one predator who does the abuse, but it sort of takes a constellation of people around them

to enable it to go forward through warning signs, through red flags, through- They ignore the red flags.

Oh, sometimes the red flags are just waving, like you're waving in an airplane, and they'll just push through it.

Or sometimes they'll even know about misconduct, and then the person will say, I'm so sorry, please forgive me, and then they'll push through it.

And then when the truth emerges, that same constellation of people will flip around and say, I'm shocked.

I'm stunned.

I cannot believe how betrayed I was.

And so everything gets isolated to the individual.

And the individual absolutely should be 1 billion percent held accountable, but we're always so good at deflecting and avoiding responsibility, especially institutionally.

And so, in my view, if you see an institution that has been through a scandal