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C.J. Strachan's avatar

Some interesting comments, thanks for contributing. Comments are now closed

There's a general point coming out here - that this is beyond pornography - that we are presenting a global online monoculture which is over 30% pornography and the rest of which presents greed, sexualisation of women, instant gratification. Our caveman brains are developed to survive encounters with Sabre Toothed Tigers, our institutions and faiths are medieval and our technology both space aged and terrifying. Educated westerners show themselves every bit as easy to manipulate and with the cusp of an AI revolution - that should concern us all.

Education is critical - education that what you see online is rarely the whole story: that the image of life painted online is as fictional as any Marvel movie.

It's going to be critically important to improve the ability of everyone, everywhere, to think critically. How you do this is another question entirely when the rewards for manipulating others are so high.

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an_imaginative_thing's avatar

I don't think you actually understand what it means to live in a third world country. I just— you have no idea how bad things are. Imagine the worst form of your government you can think of, and you haven't even begun to understand what it's like. People are leaving because things are seriously hard. I, myself, and every other young person I met wants to leave because our institutions are specifically designed to work against us. We'd prefer to stay here, but nobody is ready to starve to death for patriotism, especially from a country that feels like it hates you. The idea is always that since things always seem to be working out for you guys, people from these kinds of societies want to go to where things aren't so hard, where life isn't a series of frustrated efforts at improving your quality of life. I assure you— there is plenty of domestic porn and countless opportunities for sex in these countries too. People are looking for opportunities to better their lives, and I'm pretty sure the disappointment stems from encountering institutional problems preventing them from achieving that better quality of life in Europe. I just— really, you think the promise of sex with white people is enough to go through the insane stress of migration? Really?

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

He's at least giving SOME explanation for why I, as a woman in Europe, can't leave my goddamn house, not once in two years since I moved to my current neighborhood, without being harassed by a man in a dress. Oppressed people who are trying to improve their lives don't stand in the street leering and shouting at women.

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an_imaginative_thing's avatar

I'm pretty sure being harassed by men as a woman is a universal thing. I'm getting harassed here too, and so are all my female friends. It's a terrible thing, and I'm sorry it happened to you, but it seems to be a staple all over the world. And from the testimony of the Westerners I've also spoken to online, as well as friends or friends of friends who have emigrated, Western men also seem to partake in this practice. So, no, they did not specifically come to your continent to harass you. You existed as a woman, and generally, some men worldwide are misogynistic, and take that godawful behaviour wherever they go.

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

None of the men who harass me are indigenous but thank you for the mansplaining, it helps a lot.

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an_imaginative_thing's avatar

Alright, white lady. If you really have never experienced sexual harassment from someone of your own race, I'm happy for your luck. I also see you'd rather accuse me of being sexist toward you and invalidate the experiences of my friends and myself rather than actually listen and engage with the point of view of someone who actually is from a third world country and knows why her people want to leave. I'm really sorry for your experiences of sexual harassment though— it's always horrible. But I can't really say anything to someone who honestly believes the world revolves around them, so have a nice day (or night, I'm not really sure what time it is wherever you're from)

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Did I say I’ve never been harassed by my own race? Now you’re moving the goalposts again. I only moved to this town two years ago, as stated. Although at least when people of my own race sexually harass me, there is no racial menace, as there is here. After invalidating my experience and then accusing me of doing the same. I take it white lady is meant as an insult, so out comes your racism. Only takes one scratch of the surface. Crying out as you strike others.

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guttermouth's avatar

Jesus lady shut up

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Ann K Sterzinger's avatar

Here's a compromise: People might not be coming here solely because of the porn--I don't think that was the strength of the original claim anyway--but that doesn't mean they don't consume and believe in way too much porn before coming here and inflicting their porn brain on real live human beings.

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The Canny Man's avatar

Where young migrant Muslims turn up en masse sexual assault stats increase, I don’t believe it’s porn that causes that.

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AntoDiNetto's avatar

Andrew Huberman is not a psychologist. Such a curiously basic fact to get wrong. What else is amiss with your assertions?

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

If your best response is to seize on a single error and use it to cast doubt on the entire article, that’s not serious criticism — it’s a hasty generalization. One flaw, real or perceived, doesn’t invalidate an argument built on broader reasoning and evidence. If you believe the piece is fundamentally unsound, you’re welcome to make that case. But engage with the substance, not just a slip. Otherwise, it’s hard to see your objection as anything more than an evasion.

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Tom Häkkinen's avatar

It’s otherwise a good article, but this also struck me when reading. I would recommend you make a correction and write neuroscientist (if anything, psychologist is a demotion from neuroscientist).

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

I'm sure things are hard and if you re read the article without projecting you'll see that my target is online pornography and the collapse of moral standards in the west that is corrupting EVERYONE. I'm not saying that the portrayal of white women as objects on 1/3 of the internet is the THE reason for mass migration but it is A reason.

Answer me thjs; why are 95% of people illegally arriving in the UK young men?

Why are women on the streets of European cities being harassed by migrant men to the extent that in Berlin the police are warning them to stay indoors at night and to dress from head to foot?

I'm in my 50s and this wasn't the case in the 80s, the 90's or the 00s..it's the last 10 years .

This may be normal where you come from but it is not normal here. So the question is,.WHY are these young men behaving in this way? What's changed? As you've not come up with any answers I'm positing that it could be the image that western women have through an internet lens.

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an_imaginative_thing's avatar

I stopped replying because some people start off with an opinion, and then find facts to back them up, and I had already said my piece about your piece, and I'm not going to get into online arguments lasting weeks because I have better things to do than argue with people who don't want to actually listen to you, and don't want to interrogate their own assumptions. I have spoken from my own experiences, and I have told you that I, myself, and everyone I know wants to integrate, and I don't watch online porn, and neither do my friends, because of religious reasons— yet we would do anything to get the heck out of here. The reason I'm replying now is because I don't want you to think I'm conceding to theories that harm everyone in the end, even if I am sorry for any white woman who has experienced such a thing, and I pray they'll heal and recover from it. It's unlikely I will speak again, but I prefer to have fully explained things for anyone who wants to hear the actual third-world perspective, using my country as a case study.

You realise that this point of view shows off this West-centered mode of thinking some of you easily fall prey to? Online porn is bad enough on its own and we can all agree about that. But deciding that people who came from terrible places looking for better opportunities are there because porn told them to is actually seriously insulting, and worst of all, false. Misogyny is universal. Sexual objectification is a universal thing, because patriarchal systems are also nearly universal. It's horrible, but it's true. Now, as to why:

Sexual assault and harassment is about power, which I'm sure you already know, before I get accused of mansplaining. Catcalling and nonconsensual stuff like that is usually an expression of power that I don't think comes from the fantasy of watching online porn, but the patriarchal idea of domination itself. I don't pity or sympathise with any sexual offender, but I'm pretty sure incidents like that can be explained by those that have nothing and are miserable will see someone who has it so much better than them, but who they think they can dominate and overpower who has it better than them, which is the general evil nature of the human race. I think, if there are high rates of this, this is a far more likely explanation. Just plain misogyny. Which again, is universal, which they would have done to anyone, and not particularly any race of women. Remember this was the kind of logic that got a lot of innocent black boys in America lynched.

Secondly, most people living in my country are below middle class, like, most of the population is living below the poverty line.

Now I'm middle class, and the only reason I can afford to buy data is because I am living in my parent's house and therefore do not have to contribute money towards my own survival. God has been very good to me, so I my minimum wage job affords me the opportunity to be somewhat online, some of the time, though I have to put restrictions on myself, and so have my middle class friends. We don't have Wi-Fi culture, and our telecommunications system is cheating us and has increased the price of data over the past two decades, while nobody's earnings increase. Middle class is also decreasing, and has been for a long time. In fact, go online and read the articles about how Netflix defunded our productions because we can't afford Netflix, and so we patronise very low budget local made things. My point is, these uneducated immigrants are unlikely to be online, watching porn. And also, are unlikely to be watching white porn. Why?

Nigerians prefer their entertainment domestic. Movies, television, music, social media. We actually love our culture, and most people think it superior to yours just because it's ours. And the majority of Nigerians, especially uneducated ones, and most of the middle class, like what they can understand. They don't understand you people, and so they don't like your media. I'm one of the few people in the population that consumes more Western media and I have nearly nobody to talk about it with. I'm frustrated also by the fact that I get made fun of for it quite a lot. Because people look down on Western media. I highly doubt it's different with online porn. Plus, on those sites online with the popup ads, porn and prostitution ads are always about some naked black lady inviting you to meet up with her or watch her videos.

And if your 95% stats are actually true:

Leaving the country is mostly reserved for men. Why? Because like most of the world, our culture is patriarchal. Men provide, women stay at home. No, really, if you're a woman, and you're choosing to have a career and family, people are going to side eye you or mock you, talk less of being a career woman. This is a culture where I, as a woman, have been advised not to buy a car while unmarried because nobody will marry me if I do. Like I've mentioned, it's expensive to leave this country as a single person, and if you're going illegally, outright dangerous. Nobody is taking their families with them. The men go out of the country seeking for better lives for their families, the women, who ought to stay at home and be good domestic servants, mostly do not. Even among the educated class, it's mostly, stay here, babe, I'll go abroad and come back to take you with me eventually.

Also, like, I said, misogyny, so women aren't getting paid anywhere as much as men are, and it's expensive as heck to leave this place, so go figure.

Third, misogyny, so women are less likely to be connected to high placed people who can get them visas, which leads to sex trafficking, which makes vulnerable naive, women look for other means to leave, and end up sold into sexual slavery, so your statistics are unlikely to include them. And most of aren't going to take the risks of illegal immigration.

The fact is that, it is unlikely online porn caused people, in anyway, to go over to Europe to seek white women to exploit. Unlike the anecdote of youthful misadventure chasing different flavours of European women, these immigrants don't see this as some kind of vacation and great adventure. There's so much at stake— if you're surviving, and doing your best to ensure it, as they are, I doubt that is a thought in your head. I'm sorry for any women who have suffered this kind of assault or harassment— it is definitely not okay. But has it occurred to you, like I said in my comments, that misogynistic men saw the opportunity to be misogynistic and took it? Why are you making it about migrant men and Western women, when even Western media shows that harassment would happen to you even from your fellow indigenes. Do you really not see how patently unfair that is? Punish people who commit sexual offences— that is absolutely NECESSARY, but don't you think it is irresponsible to assume that everyone coming to your continent is doing it because online porn told them that assaulting white women is aspirational, and people who actually believe this stuff will make it difficult for law abiding citizens who live there, or people who actually need help? It's very dangerous logic.

Why things are worse in the world? Because they just are, universally, I say again. My dad and mum reminisce about the old days a lot, they're in their 60s and 50s, and Western influence was a lot more prevalent then, ironically. Movies, TV, music, it was all Western. And yet things were better, now, my people are arguably leaning into our own culture, more than ever. I would argue that there's been a decline in education and the population of the middle class in recent times. More homegrown political and institutional problems, more educated people leaving. That's why things are worse here. I don't know about over there— perhaps your moral systems are degrading, for your own reasons.

I agree with you that online porn has not made society better, but I don't believe it's leading people to migrate.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

The issue isn't universal and perhaps I should have been more specific.. West African immigrants are, in my experience, keen on integrating and respectful of others.

East Africans.. some north Africans and those from the areas where strict Mohammaden protocols exist like Sharia.. not so much. This is why I use the Hindu Kush village as an example.

Lastly I make no apologies writing from a western, Christian perspective. That is my experience and the lens through which I view the world. This is our nation, we have no other, people are welcome but you become British here. That means adopting our values etc.

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an_imaginative_thing's avatar

Just to reiterate: Respectfully, I understood your article, sir, and I have gotten all your points. I just won't be replying again if you reply, because I don't think there's anything else for us to both say as we've deeply expanded on both our points, and we both have better things to do in each of our lives than spend too much time arguing with strangers online. All I'm saying is, if you don't get a reply, it's not a concession, or an insult, it is just me not replying.

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Alex Varley-Winter's avatar

The person who wrote this Substack must be rage baiting. Wars, scarcity, hostile governments, instability — these drive migration. Along with, myths spread by traffickers who prey on the desperate. Nothing to do with sex tho’ maybe that happens in the opposite direction (e.g. the charity scandal that occurred almost a decade ago when aid workers were soliciting locals.)

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

Call it “rage‑bait” all you like — it’s a dodge. This isn’t emotional click‑bait; it’s a forensic examination of how online pornography has become a core pillar in today’s migratory and commercial‑sex architecture. You suggest that war, famine and traffickers’ tall tales alone drive movement, but traffickers now flow hand‑in‑glove with porn platforms. Migrants aren’t tripping over “charity scandals”; they’re finding their first paid‑sex gigs through the same apps that stream adult videos into every handset. That is not “nothing to do with sex.” It is cause and effect.

The 2015 aid‑worker scandal was a rotten footnote in a closed system. Online porn, by contrast, is a half‑billion‑user global marketplace normalizing transactional intimacy. To conflate a handful of predatory aid workers with the systemic commodification of human bodies via the internet is conspiracy‑theorist thinking, not serious critique.

And if you doubt this, look at the data. Across Europe and North America, under‑25s consistently point to internet pornography as their first point of contact with commercial sex; traffickers mine social‑media metadata to groom the vulnerable. Label that a “myth” if you must, but you will be choosing willful blindness over empirical truth.

Denying the role of online porn in shaping sexual economies is akin to denying the steam engine’s impact on the Industrial Revolution. This is neither hype nor conspiracy: it is the foundation of a modern crisis demanding rigorous scrutiny, not hand‑waving dismissal.

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Rachel's avatar

Maybe we don't understand 3rd world life, probably we don't, but perhaps also you don't understand what it means to live in a developed country, how hard we have striven to get away from the kind of gross behaviour that we're now encountering.

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Alex Varley-Winter's avatar

Much of these comments reflect myths and propaganda: More prosperous nations are exploiting so called 3rd world resources, allowing an unfettered arms trade, and so increasing strife *all over* the world. The root causes of migration are too often fed by our own governments’ cruelty or that of our allies.

It’s important to note that Russia, too, is fuelling a lot of instability, so we are not responsible for *everything* & in opposing Putin I would say the ‘West’ is making the right stand.

But we have also been exploitative of many countries that people have felt compelled to escape… and our own role in destabilising people’s lives or fuelling strife, is not often kept in perspective.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

That’s a familiar gambit—blame imperialism for everything and pretend any other industry ceases to exist. I’ve no quarrel with critiques of resource plunder or arms proliferation, nor with people fleeing regimes torn apart by Western or Russian intervention. But your lecture on geopolitical cruelty feels hollow when you’ll only acknowledge one vector of exploitation.

Online pornography isn’t a harmless bystander in this narrative; it’s a half‑billion‑user trafficking facilitator. While you excoriate governments for bombing and looting, traffickers are mining social‑media metadata, recruiting migrants into paid‑sex networks the moment they cross a border. That’s not marginal footwork—it’s systemic, internet‑enabled commerce in human bodies.

If you want true perspective, don’t cherry‑pick the sins you’re comfortable indicting. State violence and corporate‑sponsored porn are two sides of the same coin: they both commodify human life. Refuse to examine one, and you leave half the problem unaddressed.

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Peter Jones's avatar

So...not war, poverty and water shortage.

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Just Some Guy's avatar

I absolutely think you're onto something. Easy access to porn has certainly changed the world.

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E. Hillman's avatar

This makes total sense to me. As a young blonde woman traveling alone in India in the 1980s, doing development work, in some places and villages I'd be treated kindly, and in others instantly sexually harassed. The difference? There were vans showing porno movies to village men and boys, and the assaults followed in their wake. Many of them men assumed I must be a prostitute or up for any sick thing they desired, and screamed "how much, how much?" as they pawed at me on the streets. They were furious when I said no or fought them off. They were totally baffled and furious, saying things like "But you are blonde!". Side note: I was modesty dressed, veiled, and often traveling in tandem with Indian women or Western men. None of that helped.

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The Sue With the Goats's avatar

I don't think enough attention is paid to the fact that men from these cultures have almost no access to women they're not related to - not just for dating and sex, but even ordinary conversation. This is entirely unnatural, it's not the way humans are meant to live. Seems to me that that must make it vastly easier to channel all those raging young hormones into radicalism.

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Anne Stafford's avatar

'Access to women' - what a loathsome expression.

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The Sue With the Goats's avatar

Yes, could have phrased it better. I suppose "exposure to"? Or "contact with"? Regardless, the point remains the same.

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Nathalie's avatar

Where did you get that bit about the police in Germany advising women to cover their hair from? As a woman in Germany, I've never heard of that, and I never encountered any place in any city where I felt the need to do so.

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Walter Z.'s avatar

Sie sind offensichtlich mit Blindheit geschlagen oder willentlich blind...

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

Leider hat die Mainstream‑Medienlandschaft inzwischen echte weltweite Folgen, weil sie ihre politische Parteilichkeit und ihr Festhalten an ideologischen Narrativen über die objektive Berichterstattung stellt. Werfen Sie einen Blick in eine Ausgabe der *Times* von 1906 – zu 90 % reine Nachrichten, ungeschminkte Schilderungen dessen, was geschehen ist, mit kaum oder gar keiner Wertung. Vor vierzig Jahren bestand Ihre Zeitung noch zur Hälfte aus Nachrichten und zur Hälfte aus Kommentaren; heute ist sie vollständig meinungsgeprägt. Nachrichten MÜSSEN kommentiert werden.

Vielleicht ist es an der Zeit, die Uhr zurückzudrehen, denn die eigentliche Gefahr liegt darin, dass gutmeinende Menschen einer einzigen – vormals vertrauenswürdigen – Quelle glauben, die einst ihre Objektivität oder wenigstens die Trennung von Nachricht und Meinung bewies. Genau hier sind Dienste wie Ground News bahnbrechend: Ihre Fähigkeit, Auslassungen aufzudecken – also diejenigen Fälle, in denen parteiische Publikationen unbequeme Geschichten einfach ignorieren – wird immer wichtiger.

Natürlich liegt das ungelöste Problem darin, dass die Medien, indem sie ihre gesellschaftliche Pflicht zur objektiven Berichterstattung verraten haben, selbst zur Entstehung absurder Theorien beigetragen haben. 55 Jahre Lebenserfahrung lehren mich, dass in 99 % der Fälle schlichte Dummheit weit eher Ursache ist als Verschwörung; dass dem gesellschaftlichen Bedürfnis nach einem Sündenbock die Nuance zum Opfer gefallen ist.

Einige der Reaktionen, die ich darauf erhalten habe, sind aufschlussreich: „Es sind die Juden, die die Zivilisation absichtlich mit Pornografie zerstören“; ein anderer lautet: „Du verbreitest das Meme, dass diese Schwarzen unsere weißen Frauen jagen…“ Beide Äußerungen zeigen Menschen, die völlig in ihrem eigenen Strudel der Selbsttäuschung gefangen sind. Das ist ein ernsthaftes Problem für uns alle. Die größte Bedrohung durch KI für unsere Gesellschaft wäre, wenn sie Radikalisierungs‑Mechanismen noch beschleunigen könnte – es sei denn, man entwickelt gezielt Gegeninstrumente. Und nein, ich meine nicht bloß „Faktenchecker“. Wer auch nur rudimentär über Totalitarismus, Propaganda und Orwell Bescheid weiß, weiß, dass solche Top‑down‑Initiativen niemals funktionieren. Wir müssen die Fähigkeit der Menschen fördern, selbstkritisch zu denken – und ihnen die entsprechenden Werkzeuge dafür an die Hand geben.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

Oh.. my bad.. fortunately for you liberals it wasn't women, it was just Jews and LGBTQIA people.. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/18/jews-gay-people-hide-identity-arab-areas-germany/

And I suppose Cologne 2016 never happened either?

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Atlas Rise's avatar

I can remember a Spiegel Artikel about the police advising jews and lgbt to stay out of high risk areas in Berlin. Maybe he's confusing something.

But come on, it's not that unrealistic or out of touch.

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Bettina's avatar

Right and all that Online Safety legislation is designed to stop what exactly? Obviously TPTB see porn as a necessary part of the agenda to dumb down, anaesthetise, distract men who might otherwise want to defend their country from invasion.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

exactly - it's tilting at windmills. The issue here is education. You don't defeat alcoholism and drug addiction by proscription - you do it through education and control - the parents need to be targetted.

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English Voice's avatar

Agree this is what we should be telling our children in PSHE lessons not some trans rubbish. Most parents are simply too brainwashed to work it out. I have three sons and when they were growing up I explained all aspects going on regarding porn etc and just kept them informed. I was lucky in some ways I was working in Child Protection in a tough City area near London.

I suspect that many of our Elite class have no really clue or they are all in on it. (Haven't made my mind up). I spoke with someone recently who was all for sympathy for Trans children and their plight. I asked them if they had ever met a Trans Person or a young person who had undergone transition - to which they said no. They had no idea what it even entailed as like most of these things it is masked in lovely sounding words. Gender affirming, Pride, bottom surgery (eg castration). Anyway I guess the problem is just going to get worse because we have a deaf and dumb and blind elite class.

But thanks for writing this!

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Thor Dorosh's avatar

they don't know a young person who has undergone transition because it's really rare, tremedously rare... and according to studies (because emperical evidence exists and is how we get to know what reality is)... youth transition is extremely sucessful when done

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Gay William Ruto's avatar

Lmao

Why not talk about the sexualisation of women in developing countries by the west??? If sex is all these immigrants are after, why aren’t they flocking to Thailand, Philippines or Japan? Surely those countries would be a lot easier to get to. Goddamn every conservative take comes down to a fear of being cucked lol.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

Spare me the theatrics. This isn’t about some lust‑driven highway to Thailand; it’s about how global porn platforms—half‑a‑billion users strong—have become a trafficking superhighway right here in Europe. The article never claimed migrants “only want sex.” It showed how predators weaponize those very platforms to groom and trap the most vulnerable along routes they can actually navigate.

Thailand, the Philippines or Japan aren’t weekend getaways for people fleeing bombs, famine or persecution—they’re fortress states with visa rules stricter than Fort Knox. By contrast, Europe’s transit corridors are porous, and traffickers exploit the same apps migrants already use to communicate, share news, and yes, consume pornography.

And if you thought Western “sexualization” stopped at national borders, think again. The global porn industry manufactures and exports fantasies of submissive bodies to feed demand, whether in Bangkok’s backstreets or Barcelona’s alleys. This isn’t a “fear of being cucked,” it’s a reality check: migration and exploitation are fused by digital commerce, and pretending otherwise is the luxury of those who’ve never risked the crossing.

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The Sue With the Goats's avatar

Those countries are much farther away so, not easier to get to. And I doubt any of them would let hundreds of thousands of young male refugees in.

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Niranjan Chavan's avatar

Yes I think you have valid point.

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Dan Eriksson's avatar

This is one of the most important and daring pieces I’ve read in a long time. Thank you for having the courage to write what so many sense but dare not say. The link between porn, perception of the West, and the migratory behavior of young men is not only plausible—it’s painfully obvious once stated.

We’re living in a society where porn is omnipresent, unregulated, and increasingly extreme. It warps expectations, dehumanizes women, erodes male self-control, and rewires brains. We debate the long-term effects, but ignore the short-term devastation. Porn is destroying lives, families, and cultures.

So here’s my position: pornography must be banned.

No, I don’t have the perfect blueprint. But I know this: waiting for the “perfect solution” is a coward’s way of doing nothing. We banned other public harms before—heroin, asbestos, lead in paint. It’s time we recognize porn as the spiritual toxin it is and act accordingly.

We will look back at this era with horror. Let’s be among those who tried to stop it.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

thank you for your feedback, it's appreciated. Thanks for also highlighting the point that this isn't an attack on 'migrant' young men - it's an attack on pornography. I have every sympathy with them, we were all young and we all had our dreams and perceptions of what life was like in the big world.

You sum up this far better than I do:

We’re living in a society where porn is omnipresent, unregulated, and increasingly extreme. It warps expectations, dehumanizes women, erodes male self-control, and rewires brains. We debate the long-term effects, but ignore the short-term devastation. Porn is destroying lives, families, and cultures."

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Mel/Melanija/Melana's avatar

Fantastic article and I actually do wish Mary Whitehouse was around. She successfully campaigned against PIE and introduced the television watershed. She also warned of the dangers of children and young people having access to pornography!

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Niranjan Chavan's avatar

I would suggest you to take a look at Bollywood movies. In most of the movies western girls are shown like a loose girls. In the songs western girls are often shown with smaller cloths. and off course porn changes the perception.

With that being said are you aware the concept of passport bros?

It’s a complex topic, needs a good amount of research.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

I've noticed this. I've also noticed how many of the negative replies to this article seem to be coming from American liberals. There are valid criticism from people living in the 3rd world and in the European nations that are experiencing this but those from the American liberals universally miss the point of the article, indicating that they have either not read it properly or are deliberately and willfully misunderstanding it to fit their narrative that its all about race.

Typically they are showing their parochialism, most have never left the USA and view the world entirely through the lens of such. American chauvinism on full display, most notably in their insistence on bringing this back to race. We've had to suffer the USA exporting their own screwed racial history onto the rest of the world, steamrolling local nuance and culture. We all have our own national and cultural crosses to bear without having to import additional ones.

So rather than address the point of the article - how pornography is damaging all of our societies - the figures are there 1/3rd of all internet traffic globally, even if the research is missing there is surely an argument to study this? Rather than discuss this, they immediately treat the article as a racist dog whistle.

At no point in the article do I racially target the migrants I am discussing, in fact, quite the contrary, I completely empathize with them, they are doing what young men have always done, in fact I even give an example from my own generation in the 1980s. 'Let's go to France because French women put out!'.

The deep, deep irony of course is that the source for most of the pornography online is the United States itself, a consequence and a price for the 1st amendment is such.

How do we fix it? Who knows, education is usually best, especially if we can show the harm that it causes women, children and individual men, the unhappiness and depression such addiction fuels.

One thing is for certain though: we desperately need more study into how pornography impacts our brains, and especially the brains of young men.

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Shaun D's avatar

Don’t know what it’s like now but 25yrs ago men in Tunisa didn’t seem to interact with women. It was a segregated society, I talked to 20 year old guys who had never talked to a woman outside their family. When they see pictures of Manchester or Newcastle on a Saturday night it must blow their minds.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

A friend of mine who is a young Tunisian man says that Newcastle on a Saturday is truly shocking. I said you don't have to be from Carthage to be shocked. BTW his conversation with me was the premise of this article. Appalled with the difference between the way western women are presented on the internet versus the reality which.

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Shaun D's avatar

Good article, I think porn is frazzling a lot of brains. Might even be responsible for falling birth rates in the west.

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C.J. Strachan's avatar

It's illuminating to see how many people commenting a/don't understand the cognitive process of conjecture

B/ seem to assume that I am attacking immigrants.. I am not..quite the contrary. I'm attacking pornography and

C/ then use this as an excuse to accuse me of the usual tropes: 'fash', 'far right' etc and then go on to question my personal preferences and relationships.

Obviously they don't address the point: the negative impact pornography is having on our society and in particular women and children. I wonder why this is?

You won't ever get a straight or an honest conversation from them, just lazy and tedious ad hominem attacks..it's really quite pathetic

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Shrinking Violet's avatar

The same people who cooked up the Kalergi plan and globalism generally are also the drivers and producers of pornography. They loathe and despise what used to be called Christendom and work tirelessly to destroy it. (Oh yeah—they promote atheism, paganism, satanism, etc. too.)

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P. Morse's avatar

Also: Fast food, pubs, fast cars, gambling, oh, and money.

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