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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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Recent Articles

Letter From a Sex Offender: How I Went from Watching Adult Hardcore Porn to Child Porn

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Letter From a Sex Offender: How I Went from Watching Adult Hardcore Porn to Child Porn

"Having a compulsive porn habit, I used drugs to get an increased high whilst viewing hardcore porn and my tastes changed over time...which led me to my…

Fight the New DrugApril 19, 2025

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Hookup Culture and the Impact of Porn on Modern Dating

Hookup culture is often framed as empowerment, but does it truly benefit women? Research suggests it largely favors men, with porn fueling the pressure for casual, emotionless…

Fight the New DrugApril 17, 2025

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5 Reasons People Watch Porn When They’re In a Relationship

While it's clear porn can negatively impact relationships, porn is a common habit—even for those in a committed relationship. But why?

Fight the New DrugApril 15, 2025

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The Alarming Rise of Deepfake Porn and Its Devastating Effects

Deepfake porn is on the rise, causing severe social, psychological, and career consequences for its victims. Learn how this harmful trend is affecting people and what we…

Fight the New DrugApril 13, 2025

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Why You Can’t Consistently Fight Sexual Abuse Without Also Fighting Porn

I walked with men to the police station and child services to turn themselves in for sexual abuse. They had been addicted to porn and what they…

Fight the New DrugApril 11, 2025

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How Bad Is Porn, Really?

Porn is more than just entertainment—it rewires your brain, affects relationships, and influences society. Learn the facts and take a stand.

Fight the New DrugApril 9, 2025

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Should Teens Be Taught How to “Responsibly Consume” Porn?

Porn literacy curriculum may be well-intended, but it ultimately neglects decades of studies that have demonstrated porn's real negative impacts.

Fight the New DrugApril 7, 2025

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Are There Any Issues With Watching Consensual Porn?

Even if porn could be exploitation-free, this wouldn’t cancel out the research proving porn’s harmful effects nor the issues with what porn normalizes.

Fight the New DrugApril 3, 2025

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How Porn Objectifies Men and Harms Male Consumers

After examining 400 popular porn videos, U of Amsterdam researchers concluded that porn does, in fact, objectify men, just in a different way than women.

Fight the New DrugApril 1, 2025

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Don’t think Women Struggle with Porn? Read Stories from 5 Who Have

"That feeling of being alone changed my junior year in college when a counseling group was started for women struggling with pornography. I walked into that room and…

Fight the New DrugMarch 28, 2025

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Being Anti-Porn and Pro-Sex is Not Only Possible, It’s Necessary

Porn divides people in relationships, stunts sexual pleasure, and messes with consumers' arousal and sexual function. Wouldn't that make it sex-negative?

Fight the New DrugMarch 26, 2025

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What Porn, Loneliness, and OnlyFans Have To Do with Men Buying Sex

With the accessibility of porn and a sharp increase in popularity of the OnlyFans platform, a whole new demographic of (much younger) men are entering the commercial…

Fight the New DrugMarch 24, 2025

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There’s a Serious Porn Problem on Popular Social Media Platforms

With huge numbers of users comes huge amounts of responsibility, and not a single site has developed a porn-proof filtering system or thorough enough moderation team.

Fight the New DrugMarch 22, 2025

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Oral Before Kissing: Porn Culture Has Changed Teens’ First Sexual Encounters

According to a recent poll 31% of surveyed teen girls say they’ve taken part in sex acts without even a kiss first, thanks to porn culture.

Fight the New DrugMarch 20, 2025

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Does the Porn Industry Really Care About Empowering Women?

Porn is a women's issue in that women and girls are constantly degraded and exploited by porn companies while being told they’re empowered.

Fight the New DrugMarch 18, 2025

Must-Reads

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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 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 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.

Fight the New DrugMay 13, 2021

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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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Why Today’s Internet Porn is Unlike Anything the World Has Ever Seen

Porn is incomparably more accessible and more extreme than anything available before the internet. A couple of ratty old centerfold magazines found in the park are nothing…

Fight the New DrugAugust 6, 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 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 Porn Can Hurt a Consumer’s Partner

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

Fight the New DrugMay 14, 2021

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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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