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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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Peer-Reviewed Study Reveals Compulsive Porn Use Mirrors Addictive Behavior

This research supports the idea that porn compulsion is linked to increased attention to and reaction to addiction cues, as well as increased levels of craving.

Fight the New DrugOctober 29, 2020

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Over Half of this Study’s Youth Participants Didn’t Understand What Consent Is

A study out of Ireland this year highlighted a scary reality: if you take two young people, aged 10-25, odds are one of the two won’t understand…

Fight the New DrugOctober 15, 2020

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TikTok Videos of Underage Teens are Reportedly Being Stolen and Uploaded to Pornhub

It was only a matter of time—many teens' TikTok videos of dancing and lip-syncing have reportedly ended up nonconsensually on Pornhub. 😳

Fight the New DrugOctober 15, 2020

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Longitudinal Study Links Porn Use to Sexual Aggression and Victimization

The full study can be accessed here. Predictors of sexual aggression victimization and perpetration among Polish university students: A longitudinal study Authors: Paulina Tomaszewska & Barbara Krahé…

Fight the New DrugOctober 13, 2020

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I Struggle to Think I’m Enough for My Boyfriend When He Watches Porn

I can't enjoy sex with him anymore because I'm too self conscious to the point it's painful for me. I over-think about it, and how I look…

Fight the New DrugOctober 13, 2020

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These are the Hidden Technological Risks Consumers Take by Clicking Porn

If hearing the personal impacts of porn doesn't inspire you to ditch it forever, maybe the technological effects might make you think.

Fight the New DrugOctober 12, 2020

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Report: 93% of Popular Porn Sites Leak User Data to Google and Facebook

According to one researcher, “Google refuses to host porn, but has no limits on observing the porn consumption of users, often without their knowledge.”

Fight the New DrugOctober 12, 2020

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How Mainstream Adult Entertainment Can Normalize and Fuel Child Exploitation

If you're new to the idea that porn is harmful, or you've already been aware of the science and research, check out just one more reason to…

Fight the New DrugOctober 12, 2020

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Why is “Rough Sex Gone Wrong” Becoming an Excuse for Fatal Sexual Violence?

“Sex games/rough sex gone wrong” is an increasingly used defense to justify certain violent actions which lead to a partner’s injury or death during allegedly consensual sex.

Fight the New DrugOctober 9, 2020

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Adult Site CityXGuide Shut Down for Sex Trafficking Women and Minors

This man allegedly made over $21 million from CityXGuide, and a number of affiliated sites like it. And, get this—he registered many of those sites just a…

Fight the New DrugOctober 7, 2020

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Was Wayfair Really Sex Trafficking Children?

What began on a Reddit thread quickly spread across social media and the world as more and more followers concluded that expensive cabinets must mean that there…

Fight the New DrugOctober 6, 2020

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Here’s What Porn Sites Do with All the Info They Gather from Consumers

Tube sites are now wielding more power in the content creation process. In the name of data and knowing what the consumer wants, porn sites are literally…

Fight the New DrugOctober 6, 2020

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“Why Was the Rape Victim so Upset?”—Why Teens Need Better Consent Education

Teen boys' responses to one author's book about a sexual assault survivor show how much re-education our porn-saturated culture needs on consent.

Fight the New DrugOctober 6, 2020

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Apple Fights Child Abuse Images by Scanning Users’ Uploaded iCloud Photos

Apple is using image-matching technology to help find and report child exploitation. Does that mean Apple is breaking into iPhones to scan all photos?

Fight the New DrugOctober 2, 2020

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Australian Teens Report Seeing More Violence than Affection in Porn

This may be because online porn contains more violence than romance/affection or because young people perceive violence more often than romance/affection. Either way, this is cause for…

Fight the New DrugOctober 2, 2020

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