But….Why?

Hurtcore specifically is still a fairly new and unexplored concept meaning that motives and explanations for such behaviours are not well developed. However, to look at theories is a vital part of understanding and it is still possible to explore theories relating to online child sexual offending in an attempt to try and explain why […]

Hurt2theCore

Daisy’s Destruction was uploaded on Hurt2theCore, the beginning of all hurtcore pornography sites on the darknet and one of its most popular; by 2013 it had gathered thousands of users with abusive content actively uploaded regularly (Daly, 2018). It was found in 2013 after an investigation by the FBI and the founder, Matthew Graham, was […]

Daisy’s Destruction

Having looked into what the darknet is and how it operates as a system it is important to look deeper into how it operates and some of the criminal activity that takes place, including ‘hurtcore’. Daly (2018) describes hurtcore as ‘an extreme form of porn focusing on the non-simulated, hardcore affliction of pain, torture and […]

The Darknet vs the Deep Web

There is much discussion over the Darknet, however, this phenomenon is often misunderstood as shown in this BBC news video. Chris Foxx explains in the video that much of the internet cannot be accessed using regular search engines, instead needing a specialist browser, however, he refers to this section of the internet as the dark […]