How a Guy at an Art Gallery Tried to Traffic Me Into the Sex Industry Blog

How a Guy at an Art Gallery Tried to Traffic Me Into the Sex Industry

"I was approached by a man when I was alone at National Gallery in London who introduced himself as an art professor looking for models."

Fight the New DrugFebruary 18, 2020

Objectification vs. Empathy: Can Consuming Porn Lessen Your Capacity to Relate to Others? Blog

Objectification vs. Empathy: Can Consuming Porn Lessen Your Capacity to Relate to Others?

Objects don’t have feelings. Objects are owned by people. If we turn people into objects, we no longer see them as having feelings and can’t empathize with…

Fight the New DrugFebruary 14, 2020

What These Anti-Trafficking Organizations in Southeast Asia are Doing to Combat Exploitation Blog

What These Anti-Trafficking Organizations in Southeast Asia are Doing to Combat Exploitation

Sexual exploitation changed with the introduction of the internet. We spoke with two organizations making a difference in Southeast Asia.

Fight the New DrugFebruary 13, 2020

How His Porn Obsession Outlasted Our 30-Year Relationship Blog

How His Porn Obsession Outlasted Our 30-Year Relationship

"We were in high school when I first met my future husband. He was my first serious boyfriend, so obviously, I had no real sexual experience."

Fight the New DrugFebruary 13, 2020

What the Porn Industry Has to Do With Sexualizing Minors Blog

What the Porn Industry Has to Do With Sexualizing Minors

Not every porn consumer will turn to illegal content, but many do. This is why we raise awareness that porn is anything but harmless entertainment.

Fight the New DrugFebruary 13, 2020

Why the Personal Cost of Porn is High, Even if the Content is Free to Watch Blog

Why the Personal Cost of Porn is High, Even if the Content is Free to Watch

Porn is an estimated $97 billion global industry and much of it is free to watch. So what’s the real cost of free porn? And who really…

Fight the New DrugFebruary 11, 2020

Which Companies Cash In the Most on Sexual Exploitation? The 2020 “Dirty Dozen” List Blog

Which Companies Cash In the Most on Sexual Exploitation? The 2020 “Dirty Dozen” List

Every year, our friends at NCOSE release their annual “Dirty Dozen List,” a who’s who list of leading contributors to sexual exploitation in the US. Here's 2020's round-up.

Fight the New DrugFebruary 6, 2020

“‘No’ Means ‘Try Harder'”: 5 Toxic Ideas That Porn Normalizes Blog

“‘No’ Means ‘Try Harder'”: 5 Toxic Ideas That Porn Normalizes

There are plenty of reasons why the porn industry promotes harmful messages, but would you expect capitalizing off of racism to be one of those reasons?

Fight the New DrugFebruary 6, 2020

What is Inspiring Teens to Try Strangulation During Sex? Blog

What is Inspiring Teens to Try Strangulation During Sex?

Among this study's respondents, 13% of sexually active girls ages 14-17 reported already having been strangled during sex. How is this okay?

Fight the New DrugFebruary 5, 2020

Why Getting Married Didn’t Make My Porn Obsession Go Away Blog

Why Getting Married Didn’t Make My Porn Obsession Go Away

"I couldn't hold down long-term relationships because I never knew how to properly have one. All my information about love was from the porn I watched."

Fight the New DrugFebruary 5, 2020

5 Essential Sex-Positive Traits that You Won’t Find in Porn Blog

5 Essential Sex-Positive Traits that You Won’t Find in Porn

Being sex-positive is essential to a healthy, loving relationship. And porn? Porn fits the definition of promoting unhealthy, sex-negative ideas and practices.

Fight the New DrugFebruary 4, 2020

What My Partner’s Obsession with Porn Taught Me About Our Marriage Blog

What My Partner’s Obsession with Porn Taught Me About Our Marriage

"I grabbed his phone to change the music he was playing. I could see it in his face straight away that there was something he didn’t want…

Fight the New DrugFebruary 3, 2020

Multiple Hotel Chains Sued for Allegedly Allowing Sex Trafficking in Their Facilities Blog

Multiple Hotel Chains Sued for Allegedly Allowing Sex Trafficking in Their Facilities

It’s safe to say that the porn industry is, at best, complicit in trafficking and, at worst, an active participant—possibly similarly to these hotel groups.

Fight the New DrugFebruary 2, 2020

Adam Savage From “Mythbusters” Explains Porn’s Harms to His Sons in This Genius Way Blog

Adam Savage From “Mythbusters” Explains Porn’s Harms to His Sons in This Genius Way

"If you could look into someone’s brain the way you search the internet, and the internet was a dude, that dude has a problem with women," Savage…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 30, 2020

How This Tech Startup Caught 25 Sex Traffickers and Rescued 50 Victims Last Year Blog

How This Tech Startup Caught 25 Sex Traffickers and Rescued 50 Victims Last Year

Every day, it seems like technology moves ahead by 10 years. Artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are terms we hear thrown around almost constantly, developments…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 29, 2020