Christians discuss how to overcome the sin of lust. Girls spread awareness of teens whose rapes were filmed and uploaded online. Boys share stories of how their middle school porn addictions ruined their lives. But their message is the same: Porn is inherently evil it normalizes rape, incest, pedophilia, and misogyny and it profits off of sex trafficking.
But if you squinted, you could see what it said: “Cancel P*rn.”īased on its hashtag, the Cancel Porn brigade seems to be made up of the same TikTokers I normally see on my For You page - teenagers mostly, diverse in race, gender, and aesthetic (some were girls with the dramatic winged liner of alt-TikTok, others looked like frat boys). Ī couple of months ago, I kept seeing the same burnt-orange avatar popping up on my TikTok feed, overlaid with black text that was almost too tiny to read.
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