©️ By Sophie Lewis | The Grooming Files | @sophielewiseditorial
The Porn Crisis
We know the damage. So why isn’t anyone stopping it?
We’ve laid it bare.
Porn is grooming young minds. It’s warping desire, escalating compulsion, fuelling harm.
And yet… no one’s stopping it.
Not the tech giants. Not the safeguarding bodies. Not the schools. Not the government.
Because porn is protected. Not despite the harm,** but because of what the silence protects.**
Porn is too profitable to challenge
The global porn industry is worth over £90 billion and its business model relies on harm:
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Free access = mass traffic
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Escalation = engagement
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Engagement = profit
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Shame = silence
Sites like Pornhub, XVideos, and XHamster dominate global traffic. And they’ve been caught, repeatedly, hosting:
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Non-consensual content
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Child sexual abuse
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Trafficking victims
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Deepfakes of underage girls
In 2020, Pornhub faced a major lawsuit for hosting videos of exploited minors. Visa and Mastercard cut ties. But years later? The site’s still up. The money’s still flowing. The content’s still being pushed.
No regulation. No accountability. Because regulation hurts profit and profit rules policy.
Schools aren’t silent — they’re distracted
Sex education in the UK has become a battlefield of ideology, not protection.
Kids are being taught:
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Gender identity theory at age 6
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How to masturbate by age 9
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“Sex positivity” without critical literacy
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That questioning porn is “sex-negative” or “judgmental”
Meanwhile:
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No one’s teaching them about consent
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No one’s showing them how porn distorts real intimacy
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No one’s explaining how grooming really works
In some schools, teachers are told not to criticise violent porn, in case it “shames students’ preferences.”
We’ve got a generation who know 37 genders but think choking, silence, and filming is just what sex is.
This isn’t sex ed. It’s abandonment disguised as progress.
Safeguarding systems are stuck in the past
The entire safeguarding model is built for:
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Stranger danger
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Historic abuse
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“Known risks”
But modern porn-fuelled harm doesn’t look like that.
Today’s cases involve:
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Children filming porn in school toilets
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Sextortion at age 12
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Exposure-seeking predators begging to be caught
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Offenders who were groomed by the algorithm, not a person
And the safeguarding system? Has no framework for any of it.
Where are the social workers? Where are the psychologists? Where are the experts who said “never again”?
They’re sitting behind policy handbooks that haven’t been updated in 15 years. And it shows.
Governments avoid it — because it’s useful
Porn doesn’t just entertain. It sedates. It isolates. It makes people easier to distract, control, and sell to.
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Connection dies
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Intimacy breaks down
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Families fracture
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Desire gets commodified
The state doesn’t want sexual sovereignty. It wants silence. Submission. Shame.
And porn delivers.
So the silence continues — by design
Who benefits?
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Tech companies making ad revenue off your shame
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Schools avoiding backlash by staying vague
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Governments pacifying the public
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Predators who slip through the cracks
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Porn sites who profit off every child that clicks
Who suffers?
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The kids
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The survivors
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The disconnected
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The ones who escalate
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The ones who get caught up in it all — and never get out
This isn’t neglect. It’s strategy.
And we are calling it what it is: A coordinated, cowardly silence that sacrifices truth to protect profit.
We see it. We name it. We’re done waiting for permission to speak.
Up Next:
Part 7 – The Kids Are Not Alright
This is where it lands. In the lives of real children. Sextortion. Porn mimicry. Shame spirals. And filmed abuse. This isn’t “just curiosity.” It’s crisis.
