Listening to the Rosanna Arquette interview of Laila M*cklewait and taking notes. Apparently L pushes for banning porn at the UN. Says her mission is “make the world a better place, especially for those who are facing injustice.” Interesting how that mission excludes sex workers.

Another aspect that I think is really interesting is in the two examples L cites at the top. Both were teenagers who took pictures of themselves which the recipients then uploaded to pornhub. In both cases the trauma was in the embarrassment and stigma of being seen naked/sexual.

In one case a teenage boy kept sending more porn to his abuser bc the abuser threatened to tell his mom about the photos he’d already taken. Now what kind of reality have we created that the boy would feel ashamed in that scenario?

When police, parents, and teachers tell kids not to take naked pictures of themselves, what they’re saying is that it’s your fault if someone violates you by sharing them. It teaches teenagers to feel like they’re at fault. Like they screwed up. Which is completely bass ackwards!

Then of course there’s the aspect that teenagers say they feel suicidal and drop out of school bc they’re naked on the internet. Again, what kind of culture are we cultivating that a person would feel like a naked picture of them means life isn’t worth living?

The fact that it’s illegal for a teenager to take a naked selfie sends the clear message that doing so is immoral and shameful. But it’s not! What’s immoral and shameful is violating someone’s trust. There is nothing wrong (or unusual, to be clear) with taking a naked selfie.

The other thing I want to mention is that everything L said about pornhub’s business model and previous uploading policies is true of Facebook as well, where there’s many times more CSAM. The only difference is PH until recently allowed downloads.

And ohmygod do I hate to defend or seem to defend Mindgeek but everything she says they said about her is absolutely true! She does lie. She is on a moral crusade. I love how Mindgeek’s leadership’s secrecy is presented. Someone literally just burned down the pornhub CEO’s house

RA claims child sex trafficking is the world’s largest industry, bigger than the global drug trade and L agreed. Like she can’t go 20 min into a single interview without a frankly insultingly obvious complete fabrication.

“Any minor that is involved in a commercial sex act is a victim of human trafficking by definition.” Any definition of child sex trafficking that must include any instance of teenage revenge porn is not a useful definition.

L claims children are exposed to porn that is “hardcore and violent often.” 1. The average age a boy first encounters porn is 13. 2. Porn is actually not “often” violent. Violent porn makes up a very small % of porn and it’s definitely not what porn sites surface to new visitors

Listen I’m with you that it’s fucked that online porn is most American kids’ only sex Ed. And whose fault is that? Oh right, it’s the direct result of lobbying by evangelicals like L.

Guys this is so painful to listen to. This is an act of love. A tremendous self-sacrifice. I want to joke that it’s so you can jack off to porn. But people actually think that is true. I’m doing this bc I’m (like everyone else) against sex abuse. Banning porn creates more of it

RA: “Get AOC involved in this.” AOC (along with the ACLU, Amnesty International, etc.) supports decriminalizing sex work to reduce human trafficking you dumb cunt.