Joanna. Luk

Pornography is an important influence on people’s ‘sexual scripts’, their blueprints for how to think and behave in sexual interactions. A new Dutch study finds that among male university students, viewing violent pornography increased the risk of sexual violence perpetration.

Today, The Intercept reported that the federal government is ordering Reddit to appear before a grand jury in connection with the anonymous speech of a user who criticized the Trump administration's deportation efforts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to identify a user based in the Pacific Northwest without success. They approached Reddit, demanding identifying information on the user and refusing to specify the posts that caught ICE’s attention. Reddit has not identified the user. Reddit’s own attorneys reviewed the user’s posts for any speech not protected by the First Amendment, and found none. Government critics are not suspects and free speech is not a crime. The First Amendment protects our right to criticize the government anonymously — an American tradition that dates back to the founding. So far, the government hasn’t been able to point to a single Reddit post that’s not protected by the First Amendment. Not one. By putting the administration’s feelings above the First Amendment, government agents are sending a deliberate message to each of us: Don’t criticize us — or else. How we respond to this chilling moment matters. Today, lawmakers from both parties are busy promoting age-verification laws that would force each of us to reveal our identity before we speak online. If lawmakers had their way, the Reddit user would already be standing in court just for expressing his or her beliefs. Who knows how many of us would be hauled up next?

Pornography is an important influence on people’s ‘sexual scripts’, their blueprints for how to think and behave in sexual interactions. A new Dutch study finds that among male university students, viewing violent pornography increased the risk of sexual violence perpetration.

when i was a teen navigating the internet, i engaged with a lot of fanworks that were extremely graphic in nature, and not once did i interpret fictional content as endorsement of those acts irl. i don’t understand why that’s so difficult to grasp

they on twitter dot com saying proshipping is "white people shit"

“just block people and move on” imo is quite harmful cause if you see a proshipper in your fandom and simply block them without notifying others, minors could be swept into that mess and exposed to things they should not be exposed to.