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FACE TO FACE: Nikki Denholm
New Zealanders were horrified by the murder of British backpacker Grace Millane, choked to death during a sexual encounter on a Tinder date. So was The Light Project founder Nikki Denholm – but she wasn’t shocked by some of the details that came out at trial. Denholm talks to Joanna Wane about the new normal for a young generation that’s using online porn for sex education.
By Joanna Wane
Photo on left by Rebekah RobinsonNikki Denholm was 11 when she and her cousins stumbled upon a box of Playboy magazines stashed in the garage at an older relative’s house. What an age of innocence that seems now. These days, she says, centrefolds are so old-fashioned kids don’t even think of them as porn.