Written submission from a member of the public (SPP0054)

My name is [name] and I wish to submit my evidence for the inquiry into Sexual harassment of women and girls in public places.

I live in the UK, and I am a survivor of child sexual/physical abuse, numerous sexual assaults/rapes and was sex trafficked in [location], at the age of [under 18]. I am now an artist, author, advocate and I train social workers in [location] in regards to child protection.

I have also researched sex offenders and pornography for over forty years, because I was groomed with pornography by paedophiles, a family member and also by the pimps who trafficked me. I knew that there was a definite link between sex offenders and pornography.

For the last two years, I have collected this evidence and published it onto my blog [title].

For example, I gather evidence from the most popular and mainstream pornography website - Pornhub. Which is teeming with proof that pornography eroticises sexual offences and incites sex offenders, to not only imitate the scenarios in pornography, but to also actively film their own sex offences and upload those back onto pornhub.

(Please note that I sanitise the screen-shots, by blurring all genitalia, breast and buttocks)

I hope that you will find the time to have a look at my blog, because what I provide here is 'Real world' evidence about the connections between pornography and sex offending.

[Links to blog with identifying details]

March 2018