Negation Aspiration vol. 94

According to prosecutors, Falder – who grew up in a well-off part of Cheshire – treated his victims "both as sex objects and as objects of derision". On the dark web, his particular preference was for seeing children in positions of degradation and pain. On one extreme porn forum, in a thread titled "100 things we want to see at least once", he suggested "a young girl being used as a dartboard", a video depicting a child's bones being "slowly and deliberately broken" and the abuse of "a paralysed child".

Inside the Repulsive World of 'Hurtcore', the Worst Crimes Imaginable

Today, Matthew Falder – Cambridge academic and producer of "hurtcore" materials – was jailed for 32 years.