Porn app row
Iain Taylor
Pornography-blocking apps often promoted
in Christian circles are hitting back after
Google suspended two of the most widely-used programs from its phone store.
The technology giant suspended Covenant
Eyes and Accountable2You apps from the
Google Play store after an article in Wired
magazine branded them ‘shameware’.
PM’s porn vow
is ‘bizarre’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has
told
a committee of MPs he supports stricter
curbs on extreme porn,
two years after
dropping
legislation
that would have
introduced significant restrictions.
The Commons Liaison Committee put to
him that the ease of access to extreme, violent
and degrading pornography underpins male
violence against women. He conceded that
‘people are coarsened and degraded by this
stuff ’.
Johnson
acknowledged
that
this
included the need to protect children from
online extreme violent pornography.
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.
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).