This Anonymous Performer’s Reddit Post About the Realities of the Porn Industry is Chilling Blog

This Anonymous Performer’s Reddit Post About the Realities of the Porn Industry is Chilling

"We lie to you. We're selling a product—the sex, the persona. Like actors do press tours, everything a porn star does on social media is advertising."

Fight the New DrugApril 28, 2021

What Happens When the World Mixes COVID-19, Anxiety, and Porn? Blog

What Happens When the World Mixes COVID-19, Anxiety, and Porn?

Porn offers 2 experiences people haven’t been able to find in the COVID-19 pandemic: relief and power. These things porn offers, however, are problematic.

Fight the New DrugApril 27, 2021

Can Watching Porn Be Part of a Healthy Self-Care Routine? Blog

Can Watching Porn Be Part of a Healthy Self-Care Routine?

Self-care is any activity you do deliberately that benefits your physical or mental health. But how does porn fit into self-care?

Fight the New DrugApril 26, 2021

If You’re Stressed, Bored, or Lonely, is Watching Porn a Healthy Escape? Blog

If You’re Stressed, Bored, or Lonely, is Watching Porn a Healthy Escape?

There are ways to relieve stress or pass the time, but not every option is a great idea. In the case of porn, it’s worse than just…

Fight the New DrugApril 23, 2021

3 Problems With Saying “Watching Porn Doesn’t Actually Hurt Anyone” Blog

3 Problems With Saying “Watching Porn Doesn’t Actually Hurt Anyone”

Here at Fight the New Drug, we talk a lot about how porn actually hurts rather than helps. While porn can at first seem like an easy…

Fight the New DrugApril 20, 2021

Porn, Addiction, and the Brain: 3 Misunderstandings Corrected by a Neurosurgeon Blog

Porn, Addiction, and the Brain: 3 Misunderstandings Corrected by a Neurosurgeon

We're tackling some pro-porn arguments that simply aren't true, like, "The brain effects of today’s porn are no different than static porn of the past."

Fight the New DrugApril 20, 2021

Longitudinal Study Links Porn Consumption to Sexual Victimization Among Teen Girls Blog

Longitudinal Study Links Porn Consumption to Sexual Victimization Among Teen Girls

Several studies show that teen girls who consume porn tend to copy behaviors seen in porn, and are more likely to engage in anal sex compared to…

Fight the New DrugApril 19, 2021

How My Secret Porn Habit Led to Getting Sexually Exploited at 13 Years Old Blog

How My Secret Porn Habit Led to Getting Sexually Exploited at 13 Years Old

"I never told this to anyone, but when I was seven, one of the girls who was my neighbor introduced me to it, and then I couldn’t…

Fight the New DrugApril 19, 2021

Male College Fraternity Members & Athletes More Likely to Consume Nonconsensually-Shared Intimate Images Blog

Male College Fraternity Members & Athletes More Likely to Consume Nonconsensually-Shared Intimate Images

Nonconsensual explicit content is not uncommon online, and it exists so pervasively partly because there’s such a demand for it.

Fight the New DrugApril 16, 2021

This Study Evaluated 7,430 Porn Videos and Found Women Receive 97% of Physically Aggressive Acts in Porn Blog

This Study Evaluated 7,430 Porn Videos and Found Women Receive 97% of Physically Aggressive Acts in Porn

These researchers evaluated over 7,000 hardcore porn videos from the top two mainstream porn sites and found that women are the target of 97% of all aggressive…

Fight the New DrugApril 16, 2021

“I Wasn’t in Control of My Body”: How the Porn Industry Cashes In on Nonconsensual Content Blog

“I Wasn’t in Control of My Body”: How the Porn Industry Cashes In on Nonconsensual Content

Even though porn sites are not moderating in the way they profess to be, there is an army of women who are waging war on nonconsensual porn. 

Fight the New DrugApril 16, 2021

Understanding How Child Sexual Abuse Material is Used to Groom Abuse Victims Blog

Understanding How Child Sexual Abuse Material is Used to Groom Abuse Victims

In addition to consuming child abuse content, predators will often share these images and videos with their victims to lower inhibition.

Fight the New DrugApril 16, 2021

31 Missing Children Rescued in Texas in Month-Long Investigation Blog

31 Missing Children Rescued in Texas in Month-Long Investigation

The U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations rescued or located 31 children missing. At least seven recoveries were of critically missing children with ties to sex…

Fight the New DrugApril 12, 2021

Are there Similarities Between Porn Themes and Sex Offender Characteristics? Blog

Are there Similarities Between Porn Themes and Sex Offender Characteristics?

Even if porn is just a fantasy and a form of entertainment, why do we think it's acceptable to fantasize about and be entertained by violence against…

Fight the New DrugApril 9, 2021

Why Sarah Everard’s Murder is Sparking Conversations About What Fuels Violence Against Women Blog

Why Sarah Everard’s Murder is Sparking Conversations About What Fuels Violence Against Women

Can we as a society address the issue of violence against women without also acknowledging how porn perpetuates it?

Fight the New DrugApril 6, 2021