Even if some women have not adopted thinness as a personal standard, they may have taken their previous partners’ porn habit as a sign they need to lose weight.

Research indicates that having a frequent, isolating porn habit can increase a consumer’s vulnerability to mental health issues like depression and anxiety.

When you choose to fight wholeheartedly for love, it becomes clear how damaging porn is to healthy relationships and healthy perceptions of love.

The truth is, bringing up porn in a new relationship is important—especially if this issue is a dealbreaker for you—but it’s also a delicate situation.

The data is clear: porn has the ability to kill empathy in consumers. Considering how empathy is essential to love, this hurts the bond partners have.

“Before we married we agreed to give each other our passwords, so that there could be no secrecy about the things we did online. What I found broke my heart.”

What if porn images aren’t a healthy depiction of reality at all? Here are just a few of the most glaring ways porn doesn’t represent reality.

It’s time we put an end to the porn industry getting a free pass when it comes to the dehumanization of women and girls—and men and boys, too.

Big porn sites are trying to be the hubs that parents aren’t of education and learning for younger audiences who have questions about sex and development.

The key finding by welfare workers was those viewing porn could not see the difference between fantasy and reality and believed “women are up for it 24/7.”

Now that we know the issue of normalized sexual harassment and bullying in schools, we can take the needed steps to fight back.

It started off as magazines and quickly became a collection. A collection that he cared so deeply for that as he progressed to internet porn, he began to save, organize, and label each of the 800 CDs that his mother hid from me.