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@ Sherri_Ingrey
2025-02-25 08:42:16
FACING REALITY: Addressing the role of pornography in the pandemic of violence against women and girls.
This is an absolutely brilliant, must read, new report from @SERPInstIRL.
“There is no question that this study, commissioned by Women’s Aid and undertaken by the researchers of the Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute, is a disturbing read, but it is an essential one.
The findings cannot be clearer. The commercial sex trade, including both porn and prostitution, is a multibillion-euro business seeking to normalise extreme acts and promote the dehumanisation of women and girls.
Like the drugs trade, the aim is to hook young people, in particular boys and men, exposing them to extreme and often violent sex that puts them at risk of perpetrating criminal sexual acts. The sole intent of these abuses is for pimps, traffickers and thugs to line their pockets.
By ignoring or avoiding this issue we let our young people down by passing on a legacy of gender-based violence to a new generation. Porn is the gateway to that violence.”
Read more: https://serp.ie/.../uploads/2024/10/WA_SERP_Report_FINAL.pdf