Big porn, human trafficking, and the global sex-trade; it isn’t a few bad apples, the whole tree is
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Interview with Rose Kalemba, words by Tom Farr
On the 10th February, the BBC published the story of Rose Kalemba, a young woman from Ohio who had been through what anybody would describe as a truly horrific series of events. For anyone unfamiliar with the story, as a 14-year-old girl Rose was kidnapped at knife-point, stabbed, and then raped over a period of 12 hours while one of the men filmed the attack. In the following months, she suffered at the hands of disbelieving authorities and an unsympathetic justice system, and things became so bad she attempted to end her own life.
The brutality of this is of course shocking in and of itself, but the tragedy didn’t end there for Rose. Several months after the attack, Rose was made aware of a link being passed around by people from her school: a link which she was tagged in by name. Upon opening the link, she was directed to Pornhub. What she saw induced a wave of nausea and panic: videos of her assault and rape had been uploaded, with ...
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