‘They’re Making Money Off the Worst Moment in My Life’ |
| Serena K. Fleites, 19, was 14 when a boy she had a crush on asked her to make a naked video and send it to him. She did, and it ended up on Pornhub.Rachel Bujalski for The New York Times |
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Pornhub has been ranked as the 10th-most-visited website in the world, attracting 3.5 million visits per month. What exactly do users have access to? “I came across many videos on Pornhub recording assaults on unconscious women and girls,” Nicholas Kristof writes. “The rapists would open the eyelids of the victims and touch their eyeballs to show that they were nonresponsive.” |
I Don’t Want You to ‘Believe’ Me. I Want You to Listen. |
| Jesse Draxler |
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“I can’t tell you what The Fact is, because you won’t believe me; and I can’t tell you about The Events, because you will.” |
I’m Autistic. I Didn’t Know Until I Was 27. |
| The author, age 3. “The textures of the suit, salt and sand on my skin made me feel like I was burning, but I stubbornly insisted on swimming in the sea anyway.”Courtesy Marianne Eloise |
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“When I was growing up, I was as unkind to myself as other people often were to me: I called myself evil, cold, weird.” Now Marianne Eloise looks back on those years through a softer lens and with a greater appreciation for the person she was born to be. |
Learning From ‘Leaf Town’ |
| Rose Wong |
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The “dense, lovely and strange” world of “Leaf Town” had all the necessary components of a living, breathing society — including its own currency, the rare but attainable ginkgo. But how exactly did the town come to be, and what can be learned from its rise and fall? |
128 Tricky Questions That Could Stand Between You and U.S. Citizenship |
| Illustration by Doug Chayka; Photograph by rypson/iStock, via Getty Images |
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How well do you know your country? Maeve Higgins has been brushing up on the answers for the new U.S. citizenship test — all 128 of them — and it turns out Alexander Hamilton is so much more than that Broadway star with the cool ponytail. |
How does a great play turn into an extraordinary movie? When — and why — does Hollywood look to Broadway for inspiration? Join The Times at an exclusive subscriber event on Tuesday at 7 p.m. E.T. for an inside look at two hotly anticipated films, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Prom.” RSVP here to attend. |
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