"He makes zero attempts to initiate sex and even calls it a 'chore,' saying that he gets to 'enjoy himself instead of having to focus on satisfying someone…
Everyone knows about porn, but not everyone knows about the brutal treatment and abuse that performers often go through to create it. Hear from 10 popular performers…
What do Marylin Monroe, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, and Kim Kardashian all have in common? The porn industry has nonconsensually profited from explicit images of them.
We made a docuseries that explores the different ways research has shown that porn can impact individuals, relationships, and society. Read on to learn more.
In this study, porn users, compared to nonusers, reported greater depressive symptoms, poorer quality of life, and lower health status. Is watching worth it?
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 porn consumers can become desensitized to porn, often needing to consume more porn, more extreme forms of porn, or consume porn more often in…
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…
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.
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…
In the early 1950’s it was becoming increasingly clear to the scientific community (and the general public) that tobacco was causing cancer. To protect its profits, the…
As a non-religious organization, we do not associate with any faith or belief system, nor do we discuss porn and sexual exploitation from a religious or moral…
On the surface, porn might seem to provide an immediate spark for excitement and novelty. As positive as this might sound, the long-term studies paint a different…
The word “addiction” seems to be everywhere these days. We see the term used to describe serious and sobering situations such as the opioid epidemic that is…