Saskia Vandoorne
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And you don't need an email address to access these sites.
You just land on them and that's what's being sold.
And that's because
as men are consuming this content and they get desensitized to it, they tend to then click on more and more extreme content.
And that's where there is, and experts will tell you this, a failure in moderating this kind of content.
Because
as soon as you've got the word rape there, the site should be geo-blocked, brought down.
That's what a lot of the experts and advocates who've been trying to combat this problem have been fighting for.
And they say that what's happening in the online world, the policing of the online world just isn't in step with what's happening in the offline world.
And that a lot of the behavior that we see on these porn sites, like, for example, strangulation.
This is an example that I've brought up before.
20 years ago, strangulation during sex was incredibly rare.
It was niche.
But since the porn industry has, with the algorithms, pushed this kind of extreme content into the mainstream, there are a third of women in the UK who will experience strangulation in their 20s.
So it just goes to show how what we're seeing online then shapes what's happening to women in the bedroom.
And so there's an argument there that the porn industry isn't reflecting our sexual desires, but shaping them.
Erotica, you know, has been around for decades.
No one is suggesting, when you listen to the experts, banning porn in its entirety.
But it's extreme porn on this scale that is so readily available that
that is harming men and women.