{ A Little Bit of Leah }

Photo Cred: Askmen.com Pornography: The Third Wheel Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are peppered with “the happy couple”. Captions filled with heart-eyed emojis and I-love-yous are paired with pictures of couples kissing, embracing, and holding hands. Smiles are pasted on and facades are created to portray the ideal relationship. But what Instagram doesn’t show is the “third-wheel” that constantly accompanies this “happy couple” on their long walks on the beach, exquisite dinners, and romantic date nights. This third-wheel is Pornography. Oxford living dictionary defines pornography as “printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate sexual excitement” (Oxford Dictionaries). Culture today teaches that pornography is a normal and an acceptable part of growing up. In fact, viewing pornography is culturally understood to help in the sexual development of emerging teens and young adults. Pornography i...

Image courtesy of historyofpencils.com I liked my hippos purple. I grabbed a crayon from the aluminum tin on the kitchen table that had been dubbed “crayon heaven.” This purple was too dark; it was too blue. I dug through the wax rainbow in front of me until I pulled out the perfect one: Purple Flurp. I shoved a handful of Cheerios in my mouth as I began to add color to the circus hippo in my new coloring book. I had nearly filled in every inch of the smiling hippo’s body when I heard someone come up behind me. “Good morning! Looks like your hippo spilled some of his colors on the floor,” Mom teased as she put Kate in the high chair. I examined the masterpiece in front of me and noticed that I had gone outside the lines— right by the hippo’s giant toe nail. My small heart fell as I realized I had made a mistake. I felt my cheeks turn a brighter shade of red than the Razzmatazz crayon on the table. “I can fix it,” I replied, scrambling to find a white crayon. The white ones w...