A new group called The Porcupine Campaign has started to help young people challenge porn culture.
The name ‘porcupine’ comes from the phrase “porn is a prickly issue”, which I think is brilliant and inventive! If you are on Facebook, go and like them; this is an important campaign, as young people particularly (and young men especially) are very likely to feel isolated and afraid of social ostracism if they speak up about there concerns over pornography. Peer pressure is so strong at that age, and as Porcupine’s accompanying website Pleasure Vs Profit says, “the porn industry manipulates a natural curiosity about sex to sell a narrow, joyless and harmful version of sexuality.” Young people really, urgently need and deserve better.
Anti-Porn Feminists 
About time!! this looks fantastic! I have been working with young people for 13 years and have been looking for a resource to aid this topic, pornographic media and attitudes are melting our societies brains when it comes to healthy perceptions of sex and relationships. I am sick of working with young women with eating disorders and dysfunctional attitudes about their normal ( and still growing!!) bodies…who also think they should have a Brazilian wax!!!
I heard about Porcupine at the Challenging Porn Culture conference in December last year, it all seems really promising, it seems like we’re reaching a tipping point, where things are getting so bad that it can’t be ignored any more, even by the mainstream.
Hello to everyone visiting today from the The Porcupine Facebook page!
Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy! I’m so pleased to have found this, I feel very alone in my views and I hope this will help me make a difference 🙂
Hello Lauren,
I hope you find this blog, and the Porcupine campaign, useful!