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Girls watch porn, too: An essential conversation with Jessica Harris

Porn and Rape Culture, Radio ShowBy Jonathon Van Maren January 9, 2017 Leave a comment

For years, people have assumed that pornography is exclusively a male problem. That is not true. Jessica Harris of Beggar’s Daughter is one of the first female voices speaking out on the reality that hundreds of thousands of women and girls struggle with porn, as well. She joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss the problem–and…

So this is what an anti-porn conference looks like

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren September 29, 2016 2 Comments

By Jonathon Van Maren September 28, 2016 I touched down in Houston, Texas, in mid-afternoon with my colleague Josh Gilman, the executive director of the two-year-old Canadian anti-porn start-up, Strength to Fight. We were flying in to attend the third annual Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit, a gathering of anti-porn activists, researchers, scholars, and organizations…