It’s time to normalize not watching porn

STF AdminCulture, Healthy Sexuality, News

By Josh Gilman Last week, former radio host, Jian Ghomeshi was back in the news after an essay of his was published by NewYorkBooks.com . I’m not going to pretend I was happy about that. Call me judgemental but I tend to believe that men who believe that violence is simply a sexual preference are better off out of the … Read More

Dear National Post and Other Publications – Please Stop Publishing Garbage Articles About Porn

STF AdminAwareness, Culture, News

By Josh Gilman: Dear National Post. I appreciate your desire to print a diversity of opinions. But as a father of four, a husband, and….. actually no, caveats don’t matter, I don’t need additional qualifications. As a human. Who respects others humans. I am perplexed as to why you have for the third time, printed a mind-numbingly ignorant article on … Read More

Disgusting Beasts and Where to Find Them

STF AdminNews, Rape Culture

This week began with the absolutely revolting confirmation about one of Hollywood’s worst kept secrets. That Harvey Weinstein, one of the most influential people in showbusiness in history, was a sexual predator. Who had been using his position of power and influence to coerce women into sexual encounters and then silence them for decades. As I write this, well over … Read More

Two Terrible Lessons From Ted Cruz’s Twitter-Porn Incident

STF AdminAwareness, News

On Monday evening former presidential candidate Ted Cruz was trending on Twitter for the unpleasant reason that his Twitter account had “liked” a porn video. For those happily unfamiliar with Twitter, this means that someone with access to Ted Cruz’s Twitter account had hit the “like” button on a full-length hardcore pornographic video, placing it in most of his follower’s … Read More

Why the National Post wrote a lazy article about pornography

Josh GilmanAwareness, Children, Community, News

by Josh Gilman: I don’t know. Last week the House of Commons unanimously adopted Motion-47 which calls upon the Canadian Public Health Committee to study the harmful effects of Online Sexual Violence (pornography). Yesterday the National Post published an article titled. “Parliament is about to thrust itself into the unsavoury world of porn with a useless committee.” Now to be … Read More

Why is Pamela Anderson against porn?

Josh GilmanAwareness, Culture, News

The top trending term on Facebook this morning was “Pamela Anderson”. But not for any reason you are used to seeing Pamela Anderson trending. Nope, this time it was because the headline “Pamela Anderson speaks out against pornography” was being clicked on and shared all around the world. Why would the Canadian Model who has appeared on the cover of … Read More