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Jurge and Jess sat down with writer Blake Hester to talk through his fantastic piece on video games, porn ads, and publishers powerlessness to reduce their characters appearing in them.
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A Conversation with Blake Hester on his US Gamer piece.
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'It Made Absolutely No Sense:' The Story of 'BMX XXX' by Blake Hester
How Pornhub Enables Doxing and Harassment by Samantha Cole and Emanuel Maiberg
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