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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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How Many Students Watch Porn at School?

When it comes to evaluating schools, many safety concerns are involved, but do schools realize that students are being exposed to or consuming pornography while at school?

Fight the New DrugJuly 12, 2025

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Benefits of Quitting Porn According to 90 Real People

Here are 90 different real people's answers in response to our question of how life has improved since quitting porn.

Fight the New DrugJuly 10, 2025

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How My Images were Stolen, Manipulated, and Nonconsensually Posted to a Porn Site

"I am a YouTuber who created a video regarding my journey with self-esteem and choosing to wear a bikini on the beach while overweight to battle the…

Fight the New DrugJuly 8, 2025

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Everything You Need To Know About Stop The Demand

The porn industry fuels the demand for exploitation, trafficking, objectification, sexualized racism, sexual violence, and child abuse. Here's how.

Fight the New DrugJuly 6, 2025

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How You Can Quit Watching Porn Today

Want to quit watching porn? If you have a porn habit but want to quit, you're not alone. Here are some tips that will start recovering!

Fight the New DrugJuly 4, 2025

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Understanding the Growing Problem of Child Sexual Exploitation Material

Child sexual exploitation material is a pervasive issue that's growing exponentially. Here's what to know and how to help.

Fight the New DrugJuly 2, 2025

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11 Tips to Help You Quit Porn and Actually Stick to It

While these tips apply to kicking a porn habit, these pointers can be applied to any habit or behavior you’re trying to leave behind.

Fight the New DrugJune 30, 2025

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Can You Tell The Difference Between What Rapists and Porn Magazines Say About Women?

This study falls in line with what so many others are saying about porn—it promotes rape, and it sells anything but healthy consent practices.

Fight the New DrugJune 28, 2025

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4 Reasons Why Valuing Real Love Means Raising Awareness on Porn’s Harms

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

Fight the New DrugJune 22, 2025

3 Reasons Not To Rule Out Dating Someone Who Has Struggled With Porn

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3 Reasons Not To Rule Out Dating Someone Who Has Struggled With Porn

If you're someone who isn't ready or willing to date someone who has struggled, that's okay. Here at Fight the New Drug, we believe fighting against shame…

Fight the New DrugJune 20, 2025

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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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How Porn Can Fuel Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking shares a variety of symbiotic connections to pornography. Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 21, 2024

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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 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.

Fight the New DrugMay 8, 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…

Fight the New DrugAugust 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.

Fight the New DrugAugust 2, 2024

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How Porn Can Promote Sexual Violence

As few as 1 in 3 and as many as 9 in 10 porn videos depict sexual violence or aggression. That's especially concerning, considering that research indicates…

Fight the New DrugAugust 12, 2024

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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…

Fight the New DrugMay 26, 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.

Fight the New DrugAugust 24, 2024

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How Porn Can Change the Brain

Because of neuroplasticity, our brains constantly change in healthy ways that help us learn and complete tasks more efficiently. Yet, supernormal stimuli such as porn can trigger…

Fight the New DrugAugust 30, 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…

Fight the New DrugMay 20, 2024

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