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How a sadistic industry is being sanitised
A number of councils have produced suspect sex and relationships guidance aimed at children and young people, which fails to draw attention to the widespread harms of pornography. JO BARTOSCH reports

JESSICA REDDING died last week; the Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed that she was 40 years old. 

She acted in pornography under the name Jessica Jaymes. Her premature death is not unusual for those in what is euphemistically called the “adult entertainment industry.” 

The first pornographic film Redding performed in was Little Girl Lost, when she was just 16.

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