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15 Research-Packed Articles Illustrating Porn’s Harms

Why Porn Can Be Difficult To Quit

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How Porn Can Negatively Impact Love And Intimacy

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How Porn Can Fuel Sex Trafficking

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How Porn Can Become An Escalating Behavior

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How Porn Can Hurt A Consumer’s Partner

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How The Porn Industry Profits From Nonconsensual Content And Abuse

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How Porn Can Change The Brain

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How Porn Can Harm Consumers’ Sex Lives

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How Porn Can Promote Sexual Violence

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How Porn Can Affect The Brain Like A Drug

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How Porn Can Normalize Sexual Objectification

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Why Today’s Internet Porn Is Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen

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How Porn Can Contribute To An Unhealthy Cycle Of Stress

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How Porn Can Impact Mental Health And Fuel Loneliness

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How Porn Can Distort Consumers’ Understanding Of Healthy Sex

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Fueling the Fire: How Pornography Impacts Mental Health

Pornography often becomes the coping tool of choice not out of weakness or depravity, but because it works... at least for a moment. But what feels like…

Fight the New DrugJune 18, 2025

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How My Partner And I Helped Each Other Break Free From Our Struggles With Porn

But I was so tired of being ashamed, and I was so tired of it sucking up my life and compromising my relationships that I finally forced…

Fight the New DrugJune 18, 2025

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I Wore My ‘Porn Kills Love’ Tee To A Coffee Shop, And This Happened

I’m sitting in a local coffee shop and a woman comes up and asks about my shirt. She said, “I just wanted to ask you about your…

Fight the New DrugJune 16, 2025

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How Porn Grooms Children to Accept Violence and Abuse in Relationships

Kids, in unprecedented numbers, are watching extremely violent porn. This is how porn grooms children to accept abuse in relationships.

Fight the New DrugJune 14, 2025

The Porn Industry Doesn't Just Sell Sex, It Sells Violent Abuse of Women

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The Porn Industry Doesn’t Just Sell Sex, It Sells Violent Abuse of Women

As our collective society aims to fight against women’s victimization, it also defends an industry that victimizes women on an unimaginable scale.

Fight the New DrugJune 12, 2025

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Guilty: GirlsDoPorn Case Unmasks the Exploitation Behind the Camera

GirlsDoPorn founder Michael Pratt pleads guilty to sex trafficking after exploiting hundreds of women—further revealing how the porn industry hides abuse and coercion behind the appearance of…

Fight the New DrugJune 10, 2025

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My Name Is “Pretty”: Real Confessions Of An Ex-Webcam Girl

Over 2 years ago I found a video of myself on a free porn site. It was the first video I had ever been in, and I…

Fight the New DrugJune 10, 2025

Porn's Connection to Trafficking

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Why Do Some People Fight Against Sex Trafficking and Also Support Porn?

If you hate the idea of sex trafficking, if it is shocking and horrible to you, then consider what millions of people consume around the world every…

Fight the New DrugJune 8, 2025

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10 Differences Between Healthy Sex and the Sex in Porn

Porn isn’t produced with accurate information about sex in mind, it’s created to entertain and manifest fantasies—no matter how violent or violating.

Fight the New DrugJune 6, 2025

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My Partner’s Porn Habit Lowered My Confidence and Self-Esteem

"He makes zero attempts to initiate sex and even calls it a 'chore,' saying that he gets to 'enjoy himself instead of having to focus on satisfying someone…

Fight the New DrugJune 4, 2025

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Porn Increasingly Normalizes Sexual Violence and Racism, So Why is It Still So Popular?

As the amount of pornography produced increases and becomes more normalized, the intensity of the degradation it portrays does, too.

Fight the New DrugJune 2, 2025

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1 in 4 Sextortion Victims Are 13 or Younger, Survey Finds

According to this survey research by Thorn, sextortion disproportionately affects minors and can have devastating consequences.

Fight the New DrugMay 29, 2025

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Why Financial Sextortion Is Targeting Teens and Spreading Fast

Financial sextortion is the fastest-growing cybercrime against youth in the U.S., and predators are specifically targeting teen boys. Learn how this blackmail scam works, how it's tied…

May 27, 2025

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3 Reasons Why Someone Recovering from Porn Can Have Fulfilling Relationships

Consider the possibility that someone overcoming a struggle with porn can dedicate themselves to fulfilling relationships because of this difficulty, not just in spite of it.

Fight the New DrugMay 23, 2025

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5 Things You Can Do If You’re Being Sextorted

If sexual extortion, a.k.a. "sextortion," is something you’re experiencing, you’re not alone, and you do have options.

Fight the New DrugMay 21, 2025

Must-Reads

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How Porn Can Hurt a Consumer’s Partner

For people whose partners consume porn, feelings of rejection, mistrust, anger, and shame are unfortunately common.

May 14, 2021

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How Porn Can Contribute to an Unhealthy Cycle of Stress

When a person is suffering from an addiction or compulsion, their stress response and their addiction can become intertwined in unhealthy ways, thus creating an unhealthy coping…

May 26, 2024

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How Porn Can Distort Consumers’ Understanding of Healthy Sex

Most young people are getting at least some of their education about sex from porn, whether they mean to or not. This is especially concerning, considering how…

August 18, 2024

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How Porn Can Harm Consumers’ Sex Lives

Ironically, despite porn’s promise of improving consumers’ sex lives, there is growing evidence that porn consumption is linked to sexual dysfunction and less sexual satisfaction.

May 13, 2021

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Why Porn Can Be Difficult to Quit

When it comes to the topic of porn, one of the most common questions is whether or not it can actually be addictive. According to many addiction…

Fight the New DrugMay 14, 2024

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How Porn Can Become an Escalating Behavior

Research indicates that porn consumers can become desensitized to porn, often needing to consume more porn, more extreme forms of porn, or consume porn more often in…

May 20, 2024

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How Porn Can Normalize Sexual Objectification

Research indicates that consuming porn can normalize sexual objectification, which can have profound consequences in the ways porn consumers view and treat others.

August 2, 2024

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How Porn Can Affect the Brain Like a Drug

A deeper look into how the brain works reveals that addictions to harmful substances like tobacco have striking similarities to porn compulsion, including impaired decision-making.

May 8, 2024

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How the Porn Industry Profits From Nonconsensual Content and Abuse

In the porn industry, there is virtually no way to guarantee that any piece of pornographic content is truly consensual, ethical, or even legal.

August 24, 2024

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How Porn Can Impact Mental Health and Fuel Loneliness

Many porn consumers use porn as a self-soothing technique when they’re feeling lonely or depressed, but research suggests that porn may actually fuel mental health issues, rather…

August 20, 2024

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