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“I am 22 and unemployed,” one person writes on the question-and-answer website Quora. “I am wasting [my] entire day watching porn and browsing Facebook. What should I do in my free time which is more productive?” The answers from well-meaning strangers are telling. Do a course, join the military, or learn to code so you can create fun apps for all the other bored 20-somethings out there who are watching porn all day. “Or try going outside,” jokes another. “I heard there’s stuff to do out there. Supposedly, there are people and places outside that you can interact with.”

Such complaints are growing increasingly common.

But addiction is powerful – a Cambridge University study found in 2014 that porn triggers brain activity in sex addicts in the same way that drugs trigger drug addicts. The research also found that the younger the user, the greater the neural response to porn.

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https://x.com/recusant_raja/status/1927279133383356886

THE COVER-UP REACHES THE TOP

The failure to protect working class White girls from industrial scale gang rape from the Pakistani Rape Clans was never just about local councils or rogue police officers. This is about the British state.

Because the people who enabled these crimes - the ones who buried reports, silenced victims, threatened whistleblowers - weren’t just negligent. They were protected. Many of them were even promoted.

Some now sit in Parliament. Some wear party rosettes. Some shape national policy. And that’s why there’s no appetite for justice, because real justice would expose rot at the highest levels of power. It would mean admitting that senior officials, elected representatives, and civil servants weren’t just asleep at the wheel. They were complicit.

Maggie Oliver, the detective who blew the whistle in Greater Manchester, has seen it firsthand. She watched as evidence was suppressed, inquiries sabotaged, and predators protected for political convenience. Now she’s launched the #TheyKnew campaign, pushing for private prosecutions - because the state still refuses to act.

What does it say when a seasoned detective no longer believes in the justice system? It says the cover-up didn’t end. It was institutionalised.

This wasn’t a failure of policy. It was policy. It was the preservation of reputation over the protection of children. Power before principle. Image before innocence.

Until those at the very top are held to account, this scandal is not in the past. It is still happening. Right now.

They Tried to Silence Us. They Failed.

Six years on, we’re still here. Still speaking the truth. Still refusing to back down. Every article. Every video. Every time I’ve stood up and said what others were too afraid to say has only been possible because people like you had my back.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/i-regret-approving-saunas-when-i-knew-they-were-brothels-zv9z2883b

A former senior Edinburgh councillor has apologised for her role in the granting of licences to saunas in the city knowing they would be used as brothels. Susan Dalgety, who rose to the post of deputy leader of Edinburgh city council, expressed regret to all “women trapped in prostitution” for regularly approving the venues when the police, council officials and elected representatives all knew women would be paid to have sex on site. Dalgety, who represented Scottish Labour at that time, said: “The irony was at the licensing committee meetings we could not describe the sauna as a brothel because we could not licence brothels, so it was all very ‘Edinburgh’.”

Dalgety described these as “living porn” venues “where young women perform sex acts for groups of men in exchange for money”. She noted that, despite it’s respectable façade, Edinburgh still had a “significant criminal underclass”, adding: “Women are trafficked from across the world into Edinburgh.” High levels of HIV were circulating in the capital in the Eighties and Nineties, fuelled by intravenous drug use, when Dalgety first became a city councillor. “The public health advice at the time was if you managed prostitution then you could better manage HIV and drug abuse,” she said.

As a young woman Dalgety, who is a columnist for The Scotsman, also accepted the argument that female sexuality could be empowering and prostitution was valid work. Now 68, she said she had since started to “understand how awful prostitution is” and the fact that “the vast majority of women who are trapped in it” are vulnerable and are dealing with trauma such as child sexual abuse and drug addiction.

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https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2025/defying-a-pervert/

Coming through Zurich airport, I was flashed in the ladies’ loo by a man in a skin-tight beige bodysuit and a dodgy Chelsea facelift. It was emphatically not a unisex bathroom, but at first I wasn’t too bothered to see a bloke dressed as a woman in there. I actually felt a bit sorry when he asked me in a chummy voice which of two lipsticks suited him best (note to aspirant women, we don’t actually go up to random strangers by the sinks and come on all 12-year-olds’ sleepover) and merely resigned when he asked me if his bra was showing. But then he took his penis out.

“Oh love,” I thought, “You’ve really, really picked the wrong day.”

Call me intolerant, but when returning from giving evidence in a case of attempted rape at the Supreme Court of Switzerland the absolute last thing I want to see is someone swinging their dick in my face. There are moments when it might be correct to rehearse a carefully calibrated argument about trans rights, but I find empathy easier when someone isn’t waggling their testicles at me in a space reserved for women. As it was, he didn’t get the reaction he was hoping for. When security arrived there may have been a moment’s doubt as to which of us was the threat, but not it’s my fault he’d picked on the angriest woman in Terminal A.

And what if I hadn’t already been exhausted and furious — what if I were a child or a disabled woman who couldn’t move quickly or just maybe a woman who wanted to have a pee in peace? That we have all of us at some point to tolerate such behaviour, so constantly, so relentlessly, is bad enough, but that we are expected to pander to it is obscene. Why was I so afraid of appearing a bigot, or even a Trump supporter, that I couldn’t say, politely but firmly, “I think you’re in the wrong bathroom, please leave”?

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-good-side-of-girl-power/

Not that the Girl Power of the nineties ever felt like much of a feminist force to be reckoned with. On the contrary, as several older feminists pointed out at the time, it in many ways epitomised third-wave feminism’s dropping of the ball. Rather than continue the rebellion, it opted for adaptation — at best, a watering down of key feminist principles (sisterhood, sexual autonomy, female self-assertion), at worst, a reframing of the anti-feminist backlash of Loaded and ladettism as a newer, better, more “palatable” form of feminism. You get something sweeter, as Horner herself suggests, when you replace the word “woman” with “girl” (especially if the “girls” are women in their twenties, their own names replaced by cutesy epithets such as Baby, Ginger, Sporty, Posh and Scary).

Does it matter, then, if the term “Girl Power” dies a death? If the reason for this were because, as feminism goes, it was a pretty rubbish, often counter-productive form, I’d say it didn’t. If the reckoning we were having today involved saying that actually — as predicted at the time in books such as Overloaded and Female Chauvinist Pigs — this kind of “feminism” was paving the way for the ultra-misogyny of the porn age, that would be one thing. If what was under attack were the worst aspects of nineties “feminism” — the infantilisation of women, the trivialising of sexual objectification, the reduction of female experience to short skirts and pillow fights — I would be happy to see it go.

Following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of women, we are starting to see organisations respond by deciding it is better to have nothing at all for women, if “women” doesn’t mean everyone. Now it seems we’re not even allowed feminism in its crappest form. At least girls of my generation were told that, in theory, you can have things which are just for you, your female friends, maybe even your mum, too. What do today’s girls have? The sense that perhaps even being a girl is problematic (how dare you be you without giving someone else a go?).

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