I Had a Helicopter Mom. I Found Pornhub Anyway.
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Porn is not content. It’s a substance. And it must be controlled like one, argues 16-year-old Isabel Hogben.
I was ten years old when I watched porn for the first time. I found myself on Pornhub, which I stumbled across by accident and returned to out of curiosity. The website has no age verification, no ID requirement, not even a prompt asking me if I was over 18. The site is easy to find, impossible to avoid, and has become a frequent rite of passage for kid…
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