You can see elements of it all over the place: on videos where women talk about how all sex work is coercion because it involves the transfer of money, or on videos about how the industry isn’t as glamorous as TikTok makes it out to be.Īnti-pornography beliefs have been part of countless movements of the past, most notably in 1970s feminist discourses, but the current iteration spreading on TikTok seems to be a direct response to, well, other things happening on TikTok. It’s just one facet of a conservatism, for lack of a better term, that’s proliferating on TikTok from rather unlikely sources: young, presumably progressive women (for the most part) who seem to believe that “choice feminism,” or the idea that every choice a woman makes is inherently feminist because a woman made it, is propagating patriarchy and the male gaze. #foryoupage #xyzbca #cancelporn ♬ Daddy issues - not active Two girls even threw a “porn funeral” party, which sounds like it’s a joke but appears to be genuine? Comments on Cancel Porn videos are mostly from fellow believers, folks who write that they’re “three months clean” and that “more people should be talking about my time to talk about this. Christians discuss how to overcome the sin of lust. Girls spread awareness of teens whose rapes were filmed and uploaded online. Boys share stories of how their middle school porn addictions ruined their lives. But their message is the same: Porn is inherently evil it normalizes rape, incest, pedophilia, and misogyny and it profits off of sex trafficking. But if you squinted, you could see what it said: “Cancel P*rn.”īased on its hashtag, the Cancel Porn brigade seems to be made up of the same TikTokers I normally see on my For You page - teenagers mostly, diverse in race, gender, and aesthetic (some were girls with the dramatic winged liner of alt-TikTok, others looked like frat boys). Ī couple of months ago, I kept seeing the same burnt-orange avatar popping up on my TikTok feed, overlaid with black text that was almost too tiny to read. Is there something you want to see more of? Less of? Different of? Email, and subscribe to The Goods’ newsletter here. Hello from The Goods’ twice-weekly newsletter! On Tuesdays, internet culture reporter Rebecca Jennings uses this space to update you all on what’s been going on in the world of TikTok.
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