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

Middle Schoolers are Sexually Harassing Each Other and Not Much is Being Done About It Blog

Middle Schoolers are Sexually Harassing Each Other and Not Much is Being Done About It

Being groped at the water fountain or verbally degraded with "jokes" during class—sexual harassment is happening among young students everywhere.

Fight the New DrugNovember 2, 2021

Tips for Fact-Checking Human Trafficking Theories and Stories Blog

Tips for Fact-Checking Human Trafficking Theories and Stories

Here are a few examples of reliable sources to get you started the next time you need to fact-check a trafficking-related theory or story you see online.

Fight the New DrugNovember 2, 2021

Activist Richie Hardcore on How He Fights Porn Culture in New Zealand and Australia Blog

Activist Richie Hardcore on How He Fights Porn Culture in New Zealand and Australia

“Everyone is looking at it but no one’s talking about it. A lot of people still think porn is 'Playboy' and it’s not.”

Fight the New DrugNovember 2, 2021

“The More Real the Pain, the More Views I Got”: Real Stories from Theodosia, a Former BDSM Porn Performer Blog

“The More Real the Pain, the More Views I Got”: Real Stories from Theodosia, a Former BDSM Porn Performer

"The more real my pain was, the more I cried from the depth of my depths, the more abuse I took, the more my videos were watched."

Fight the New DrugNovember 1, 2021

Would “Exploitation-Free” Porn Be Harm-Free for Consumers? Blog

Would “Exploitation-Free” Porn Be Harm-Free for Consumers?

If the consumer knew for an absolute certainty that this pornography was made free of exploitation, would watching it still be harmful?

Fight the New DrugOctober 29, 2021

Why Quitting Porn Can Give You More Time and Energy to Get Back Into Hobbies Blog

Why Quitting Porn Can Give You More Time and Energy to Get Back Into Hobbies

There’s one habit that can pull people from the things they love most in life, and many people across the world struggle with it: porn.

Fight the New DrugOctober 29, 2021