Earlier this month, Slate published a letter from a distraught woman who had just discovered her partner’s porn stash. Although she had been aware of the fact that he watched porn, what she found stunned her.
“Some of his ‘favorite’ pages on the browser were things with titles like ‘Teen Degraded’ and ‘Woman Treated Like a Piece of Meat.’ This really upsets and disturbs me, especially the focus on violence towards adolescent girls,” she wrote. “I also am disgusted by him getting off on degrading violent porn about adolescent girls, partly because I am sensitive about that stuff due to an assault I experienced as an adolescent, but partly also because I find it upsettingly misogynistic.”
