The Western Porn Industry Is Poisoning the Planet
By Jonathon Van Maren, European Conservative.
In 2016, the Washington Post ran a story titled “Reddit tried to introduce a remote Kenyan tribe to porn. It did not go as expected.” Upon encountering Western porn, apparently, the Maasai chiefs “thought it was fake and not real life, like a cartoon.” The story provoked much hilarity amongst Westerners online: Just imagine not having porn! The reactions, needless to say, were far more revealing than intended.
Forty years ago, Western influence in developing countries meant exports like freedom, capitalism, and mass-produced technologies that made life easier. Today, it means the aggressive promotion of abortion on demand, ‘LGBT’ ideology at all costs, and cultural neo-colonialism. And as the internet and the smartphone arrive in even the most far-flung places, so does perhaps the most ubiquitous and poisonous of Western products: pornography.
Ubiquitous porn use has transformed sex, dating, and marriage across the Western world as usage and addiction rates approach 90% of the male population in many countries and over 60% of women. Most mainstream content features sexual violence and women and girls being violated and humiliated. The UK and French governments have recently raised the alarm as a generation of young people, fuelled by porn, now see choking, violent anal sex, and other abuse as normal.
As digital porn arrives in developing countries, it is having a similarly poisonous effect. A number of media outlets recently reported the story of a remote Brazilian tribe in the Amazon rainforest who were given access to the internet through Starlink satellites by Elon Musk. In many ways, the gift proved beneficial. For example, the internet allowed the Marubo tribesmen, who live in settlements alongside the Ituí River, to call for urgent medical help. But the downsides of the internet became apparent within days.
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