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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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Study Suggests that Porn is Influencing Women to be More Submissive During Sex

According to their findings, researchers suggest that porn can directly affect women's real-life sexual behaviors, showing that porn-consuming women tend to take on sexual scripts of submissiveness.

Fight the New DrugApril 14, 2022

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Norwegian Police Investigation Found Seattle-Based Porn Sites that Profit from Child Sex Abuse Livestreams

An ongoing investigation has led Norwegian police to a Seattle-based conglomerate that profits from livestreamed sexual abuse of children—and could likely be storing a large number of…

Fight the New DrugApril 14, 2022

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In Order to Fight Child Sex Abuse, We Need to Stop Fetishizing It

While the sexualization of youth goes beyond porn, porn today plays a huge role in spreading it. In porn, the fetishization of the underage is blatant.

Fight the New DrugApril 14, 2022

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Homepages of 3 Popular Porn Sites Heavily Feature Sexual Violence, Study Finds

This largest study of online porn to date raises questions about the extent of sexually violent, nonconsensual, and even criminal material freely available on mainstream porn websites.

Fight the New DrugApril 13, 2022

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Study Reveals Image-Based Abuse Victims Suffer Similar Trauma as Sexual Assault Victims

Findings of this study reveal striking similarities between the mental health effects of sexual assault and revenge porn for survivors.

Fight the New DrugApril 13, 2022

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One of the Most Popular Porn Sites Uses More than 6 Million kWh to Power Streaming Services

Researchers who study the environmental impacts of the internet agree that streaming is generally energy efficient. But no one expected the world to watch so much porn.

Fight the New DrugApril 12, 2022

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5 Things Porn Labels as “Fetishes” That Are Actually Normal

Body types, body hair, relationship types—some of the most normal things about people are disproportionately represented and packaged as “fetish” genres in porn.

Fight the New DrugApril 12, 2022

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Why Many Porn Consumers Watch Porn that Previously Disgusted Them

Did you know that porn consumption can escalate every bit as much as substance abuse or any other addictive behavior?

Fight the New DrugApril 7, 2022

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Why Are Women Watching More Violent Porn Than Ever?

More and more women are seeking out the more extreme versions of porn, and that porn is blatantly violent towards women. But why?

Fight the New DrugApril 7, 2022

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1 in 16 U.S. Women Reported Being Raped During Their First Sexual Encounter in This Study

According to a 2019 study, more than 3.3 million American women ages 18 to 44 were raped the first time they had a sexual encounter.

Fight the New DrugApril 7, 2022

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Can Porn Worsen the Issue of Child-Perpetrated Sexual Assault?

The study participants also highlighted the need to improve education about sex as a way to promote respectful sexual relationships.

Fight the New DrugApril 6, 2022

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Man Arrested After Faking His Own Death 6 Years Ago to Avoid Trial for Child Porn Charges

Authorities said Jacob Greer, 28, was a "survivalist" who had intentions to "live off the land" and hide out in abandoned cabins to avoid detection.

Fight the New DrugApril 6, 2022

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How It Feels to Finally Be In a Relationship with Someone Who Doesn’t Watch Porn

"I gathered up information, took a breath in, and talked to him... He expressed gratitude for me bringing all the information to light for him. And he…

Fight the New DrugApril 6, 2022

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How Many People are on Porn Sites Right Now? (Hint: It’s a Lot.)

Gone are the days when people hid their Playboy magazines under the mattress—we've now in a society where porn is the norm.

Fight the New DrugApril 5, 2022

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Online Sexual Predators Use Porn to Groom Children Into Sending Intimate Images, Report Shows

This report discusses how predators often use pornography to groom children online, to desensitize them to sexual advances, and to convince them to create and send intimate…

Fight the New DrugApril 4, 2022

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