From Playboy to Pornhub: Confessions of a 71-Year-Old Porn Addict Blog

From Playboy to Pornhub: Confessions of a 71-Year-Old Porn Addict

"It all began when my father brought home the first issue of Playboy magazine in 1953... By the time I graduated from high school and went away…

Fight the New DrugNovember 18, 2021

3 Ideas Our Culture Believes About Porn That Aren’t Backed by Research Blog

3 Ideas Our Culture Believes About Porn That Aren’t Backed by Research

Let's talk about three ideas our current culture widely believes about porn that need some reevaluation. What is research actually saying?

Fight the New DrugNovember 17, 2021

Love: The One Gift Every Person Needs and Wants, Especially This Season Blog

Love: The One Gift Every Person Needs and Wants, Especially This Season

Every person has the most crucial thing in common—the capacity and need for love. How will you give back to yourself and your community this season?

Fight the New DrugNovember 17, 2021

How My Obsessive Porn Habit Spiraled Out of Control Blog

How My Obsessive Porn Habit Spiraled Out of Control

"At one point, I had so many disks with porn on them that if you placed them on the floor, they stacked up past my waist. Yet,…

Fight the New DrugNovember 16, 2021

Fellow Passengers Did Nothing While a Woman was Raped on Philadelphia Train, Police Say Blog

Fellow Passengers Did Nothing While a Woman was Raped on Philadelphia Train, Police Say

For eight minutes, a woman was raped in public on a Philadelphia train. According to police, her fellow passengers witnessed the assault but didn't intervene.

Fight the New DrugNovember 16, 2021

4 Ways to Share this Movement for Love While You’re Home for the Holidays Blog

4 Ways to Share this Movement for Love While You’re Home for the Holidays

If you're a Fighter, how can you mention a topic like porn this holiday season? If you look around, there are many opportunities to spread the word.

Fight the New DrugNovember 16, 2021

Are You Objectifying People Without Realizing It? Blog

Are You Objectifying People Without Realizing It?

Hyper-focusing on other people’s bodies, scrutinizing or sexualizing people based on their clothing, or otherwise reducing people to their physical appearance is always objectification.

Fight the New DrugNovember 16, 2021

This Study Shows Feeling Shame Fuels Hypersexual Behavior While Feeling Guilt Fuels Change Blog

This Study Shows Feeling Shame Fuels Hypersexual Behavior While Feeling Guilt Fuels Change

The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of both shame and guilt in hypersexual persons, to examine the associations between the intensity of these…

Fight the New DrugNovember 16, 2021

8 Worthwhile Reasons to Give Up Porn Blog

8 Worthwhile Reasons to Give Up Porn

By avoiding porn, you’re avoiding contributing to the normalization and glorification of toxic narratives. Here are eight worthwhile reasons to quit porn.

Fight the New DrugNovember 15, 2021

How the Porn Industry Quietly Fought to Stop Keeping Official Records of Performers’ Ages—and Won Blog

How the Porn Industry Quietly Fought to Stop Keeping Official Records of Performers’ Ages—and Won

This requirement provides the only way to verify and track performers’ ages and serves as a major incentive for businesses across the complex supply chain to monitor…

Fight the New DrugNovember 15, 2021

Avoiding or Stopping Porn Consumption is Linked to Higher Life Satisfaction Blog

Avoiding or Stopping Porn Consumption is Linked to Higher Life Satisfaction

Trajectories of consumers' habits were connected with levels of life satisfaction. Individuals reporting consistent porn consumption also reported lower life satisfaction after controls.

Fight the New DrugNovember 15, 2021

Would Porn Be Harmful if it Didn’t Have Habit-Forming Potential? Blog

Would Porn Be Harmful if it Didn’t Have Habit-Forming Potential?

Let’s pretend for a moment that porn doesn't have compulsion-forming potential. Would there still be risks and harms? Would it still be unhealthy?

Fight the New DrugNovember 12, 2021

Is Rape Culture Real? Let’s Take a Look at the Evidence Blog

Is Rape Culture Real? Let’s Take a Look at the Evidence

"Rape culture." It's a term many of us hear on the regular, but do all of us actually know what it is? Take a walk with us…

Fight the New DrugNovember 5, 2021

Listen to Our Conversation with Clay Olsen, Co-founder of Fight the New Drug Blog

Listen to Our Conversation with Clay Olsen, Co-founder of Fight the New Drug

Clay sat down with our Consider Before Consuming podcast host to discuss not only why research is showing porn to be harmful, but the benefits of a…

Fight the New DrugNovember 5, 2021

Tips to Quit Porn: Why Setbacks Don’t Automatically Mean Failures Blog

Tips to Quit Porn: Why Setbacks Don’t Automatically Mean Failures

Fight the New Drug isn't a recovery resource, but we encourage anyone in need of help to visit our affiliates at Fortify. There's hope, and you're not…

Fight the New DrugNovember 4, 2021