A National Survey conducted by Common Sense sheds light on the dangerous realities of teens and online pornography. According to the report, three-quarters of teens say they've…
At the age of four, Crissy Outlaw was molested and sexually abused, starting a pattern of abuse that continued throughout her childhood and teen years. As an…
Betrayal trauma is a real thing, and it looks different for each person. Most people feel heartbroken and go through a mourning process. The lies and broken…
The harms of porn don't discriminate based on your relationship status. Porn can negatively affect the consumer and harm their potential future relationships, even if they are…
Porn is something you can choose to view by yourself, but watching explicit videos of strangers having sex doesn’t just affect you—it affects your partner.
Ideas that originated in slavery continue to be explicitly depicted in porn. Dr. Carolyn West uncovers the porn industry's racist portrayals of Black people.
There’s a lot of information out there about how the porn industry exploits women–but what about men? Here are some ways that porn can degrade, victimize, and…
How can we expect to be a society that respects all races, while also getting sexual enjoyment from content that specifically plays on the most degrading racist…
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…
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…
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…
Research indicates that consuming porn can normalize sexual objectification, which can have profound consequences in the ways porn consumers view and treat others.
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…
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…
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.