Exposed

An expert’s exposé on the harms of Big Porn

We’re watching it on the bus, the tube, on the plane instead of the inflight entertainment.

We’re watching it at the office, at home, when we’re supposed to be working.

We’re watching it at school. We’re even watching it in Parliament.

What’s it doing to us?

Never more than a click away, porn is virtually inescapable. With minimal moderation, mainstream platforms don’t just host it, they push ever more extreme content into view, whether you want it or not.

The consequences are profound. Our most intimate relationships are being manipulated, our desires exploited. An entire generation is learning about sex not from experience or trust but from Pornhub, where fantasies are constructed by degrading, misogynistic and racist ideals that eroticise masculine dominance and normalise sexual violence. Meanwhile, non-consensual porn is destroying women’s lives, a threat now supercharged by deepfakes and AI.

The time to reclaim our sexual freedom is now. This is not only a fight for autonomy over our bodies and desires, but for gender equality itself. To move forward, we must confront and dismantle both the patriarchy and the porn industry that sustains it.