Help… I married a porn addict
Dear Editor, I am sending in this heartfelt article in the hope that you will publish it and that those who read it will either step up and try and provide support for people like me or, should they be addicts themselves, that something will resonate with them and cause them to go and get help. Due to its subject matter and the honesty with which I have tried to write, I hope you will understand why no name comes with it. In Him, a hurting wife and mum who loves the Lord and can’t find a way out of this deep pit that I’m in.
My memory is blurred and all the journaling I’ve done over the years has long found its way into the recycling as I tried to begin again; each time I thought we’d reached a stage when this part of our journey was over. But it just seems to keep on coming.
politics & policy
Help curb access to porn
James Mildred
Not that long ago, the UK Government committed an unfathomable U-turn by deciding not to implement bold new legislation to prevent children accessing online pornography.
Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act would have required users to provide some form of identification to prove that they are over the age of 18 before accessing explicit content. It would also have ensured an operational regulator with powers to crack down on websites hosting illegal extreme pornography.
politics & policy
Urgent action is needed to address child access to online porn
James Mildred
Exactly a year ago, the UK Government performed one of the most extraordinary U-turns of the last 20 years.
On 16 October, Nicky Morgan told the House of Commons that plans to introduce age verification for online pornography were being abandoned, despite MPs and Peers approving the scheme and the regulations required to implement it.
Can secular thinking solve porn's evils?
Pornocracy (2025), by Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel, is a clarion call for a legislative and cultural revolution, one in which the depravity of pornography is recognised, its façade of respectability is pulled down, and the entire industry which profits from it is overthrown.
Their provocative title refers to the "system where our minds, relationships and laws are shaped by global-scale sexual exploitation." It is this which they seek to expose (which Pornocracy does comprehensively) and then dismantle (here, the results are more mixed).