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NoFap Founder Sued Pornhub, UCLA, and Scientists While Intimidating Journalists Alexander Rhodes, the founder of the pornography addiction self-help group NoFap and repeat plaintiff,  sued the parent company of Pornhub , Aylo, along with the University of California Los Angeles, two scientists, and an academic publisher for defamation. Filed in a court of common pleas in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and since removed to federal court by the defendants, the suit has gone under the radar by most news outlets. I wrote for  one of my publishers  about the lawsuit but little coverage has picked it up. I hope that changes in the coming months as litigation advances in the case. The lawsuit alleges a civil conspiracy bankrolled by Aylo to defame Rhodes and NoFap. Rhodes is a divisive figure in the wider anti-porn discussion as he believes that breaking “pornography addiction,” (which is not an accepted diagnosis in the DSM-5) requires participants to not...

Advertisement Law boss compulsively watched porn at work, which female staff couldn’t help seeing A law boss who repeatedly exposed his female staff to porn on his computer, has been suspended from practising as a lawyer for three months. “Although he ‘clicked out’ of objectionable internet sites when staff entered his office room, they were confronted with snippets and were acutely aware of his interest in sexualised objectification of women. “Consequently, they felt horror, shock, disgust, discomfort, embarrassment, and shame. Their work environment was thus rendered toxic and emotionally unsafe,” a recent Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal finding said. The lawyer, who cannot be named at this stage, was a sole legal practice employer and had no policy or processes about raising this type of behaviour. Since 2016, some staff members witnessed the snippets of porn on his computer screen several times a day. When the firm moved to a new office and his comp...