How the “Barely Legal” Porn Trend Fuels Child Exploitation Blog

How the “Barely Legal” Porn Trend Fuels Child Exploitation

When turning 18 becomes a countdown to exploitation—how "barely legal" OnlyFans content fuels child exploitation.

Fight the New DrugSeptember 24, 2025

5 Ways a Porn Habit Can Harm Your Mental Health Blog

5 Ways a Porn Habit Can Harm Your Mental Health

Porn is seen as a normal habit or go-to for passing time, but what isn't as widely known are negative effects that result from watching it.

Fight the New DrugSeptember 21, 2025

Understanding Sextortion: A Growing Threat Blog

Understanding Sextortion: A Growing Threat

Sextortion uses threats to expose private images for control and coercion. This article explores how sextortion happens, its devastating effects, and what can be done.

September 19, 2025

Behind the Camera: Study Reveals the Hidden Abuse of Porn Performers Blog

Behind the Camera: Study Reveals the Hidden Abuse of Porn Performers

Consumers see fantasy. Survivors live the nightmare. A Swedish study exposes the extreme abuse, trauma, and re-victimization performers endured while filming pornography.

Fight the New DrugSeptember 17, 2025

How the Realism of VR Porn Can Fuel Loneliness in Consumers Blog

How the Realism of VR Porn Can Fuel Loneliness in Consumers

VR porn promises a fantasy world, but it is just that. Relying on sight and sound provides a sense of immersion, but it cannot (at least not…

Fight the New DrugSeptember 15, 2025

Celebrities Who Have Spoken Out on Porn’s Harms Blog

Celebrities Who Have Spoken Out on Porn’s Harms

Any time a celebrity speaks up about porn’s harmful effects, countless more people have the opportunity to see what the research is saying.

Fight the New DrugSeptember 12, 2025

I Almost Did Porn Because I Thought It’d Be Easy Money Blog

I Almost Did Porn Because I Thought It’d Be Easy Money

"This is what porn did for me. It reduced me to feeling ashamed of myself because I didn't have the 'confidence' to hurt or humiliate men for…

Fight the New DrugSeptember 3, 2025

Does the Porn Industry Really Care About Empowering Women? Blog

Does the Porn Industry Really Care About Empowering Women?

The porn industry says they empower women, yet are constantly degrading and exploiting them. The research speaks for itself.

Fight the New DrugSeptember 2, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Helps Produce Child Sexual Abuse Material Blog

Artificial Intelligence Helps Produce Child Sexual Abuse Material

Predators utilize AI software to generate CSAM or 'child pornography' of fictitious children or superimpose images of real children into already existing sexually explicit material.

Fight the New DrugSeptember 1, 2025

A Shocking Number of People Watch Porn While at Work, But Why? Blog

A Shocking Number of People Watch Porn While at Work, But Why?

One global survey of 2,000 people revealed more than 60% of people who answered the questions had watched porn at work. But why do they do it?

Fight the New DrugAugust 30, 2025

3 Leaked Celebrity Sex Tapes You Didn’t Know Were Actually Revenge Porn Blog

3 Leaked Celebrity Sex Tapes You Didn’t Know Were Actually Revenge Porn

What do Marilyn Monroe, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, and Kim Kardashian all have in common? The porn industry has nonconsensually profited from explicit images of them.

Fight the New DrugAugust 28, 2025

11 Serious Issues Porn Culture Fuels in High Schools Blog

11 Serious Issues Porn Culture Fuels in High Schools

Porn has been normalized for a while, but now—more than ever—porn culture in high schools is impacting students' relationships with others and themselves.

Fight the New DrugAugust 25, 2025

This Fight Is Real. We Need You. Blog

This Fight Is Real. We Need You.

At Fight the New Drug we’ve spent 16+ years raising our voice on the harms of porn. But now, we’re in danger of being silenced—and we’re asking…

Fight the New DrugAugust 17, 2025

Porn Almost* Ruined My Marriage Blog

Porn Almost* Ruined My Marriage

A marriage with a secret—until he got caught. When the truth came out, love gave him something porn never could: hope

Fight the New DrugAugust 15, 2025

When Porn Use Shatters Trust: A Therapist Explains Betrayal Trauma BlogUncategorized

When Porn Use Shatters Trust: A Therapist Explains Betrayal Trauma

In the case of pornography use, betrayal trauma isn’t always about the behavior itself. It’s about deception, secrecy, and the emotional distance it creates.

Fight the New DrugAugust 3, 2025