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15 Research-Packed Articles Illustrating Porn’s Harms

Why Porn Can Be Difficult To Quit

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How Porn Can Negatively Impact Love And Intimacy

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How Porn Can Fuel Sex Trafficking

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How Porn Can Become An Escalating Behavior

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How Porn Can Hurt A Consumer’s Partner

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How The Porn Industry Profits From Nonconsensual Content And Abuse

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How Porn Can Change The Brain

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How Porn Can Harm Consumers’ Sex Lives

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How Porn Can Promote Sexual Violence

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How Porn Can Affect The Brain Like A Drug

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How Porn Can Normalize Sexual Objectification

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Why Today’s Internet Porn Is Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen

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How Porn Can Contribute To An Unhealthy Cycle Of Stress

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How Porn Can Impact Mental Health And Fuel Loneliness

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How Porn Can Distort Consumers’ Understanding Of Healthy Sex

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New fMRI Brain Study Shows Similarities of Porn Struggles and Substance and Gambling Addictions

The full study can be accessed here. Can pornography be addictive? An fMRI study of men seeking treatment for problematic pornography use. Authors: Mateusz, Gola; Małgorzata, Wordecha;…

Fight the New DrugJune 13, 2018

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A Man Says He Fell In Love With This 20-Year-Old Model, Then He Kidnapped Her

Cover photo by Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock. In July of 2017, we reported on the extraordinary story of a 20-year-old British model disappearing after traveling to Italy. After being…

Fight the New DrugJune 12, 2018

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The Problem With Saying “There Are Bigger Issues Than Porn To Fight”

"Is this page a joke?" "This company has to be satire. You're not actually fighting porn. What did porn ever do to you?" "There are much bigger…

Fight the New DrugJune 12, 2018

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Porn is Insanely Explicit, But it Will Never Show These 3 Things

Cover photo by Daniel Garcia. 4 minute read. Science and research have continue to show something that might surprise the average consumer: porn changes the brain and harms relationships. But…

Fight the New DrugJune 12, 2018

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How Porn Pushed Me to Try and Be My Boyfriend’s Personal Performer

Dear FTND, I was messed up over believing pornography was sex. The things I had seen on screen were things I believed I should be excited and…

Fight the New DrugJune 11, 2018

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Anonymous Hackers Delete 10,000 Child Exploitation Sites on Dark Web

There are a lot fewer child sexual exploitation pages on the dark web, thanks to an infamous hacker group dedicated to their mission of cyber-vigilantism. Anonymous, a notorious…

Fight the New DrugJune 11, 2018

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This “Sex Doll Sharing Service” In China Was Shut Down Just Days After Launching

Image by the South China Morning Post. 5 minute read. We live in an age where sharing stuff has become the norm. You can share your car…

Fight the New DrugJune 8, 2018

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An Open Letter To My Best Friend and Partner Who Chose Porn Over Us

A Letter to The Best Friend I Lost We were sitting in a friend’s living room, late at night. Everyone else had left, but we were still…

Fight the New DrugJune 8, 2018

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British Woman Confesses to Watching 8 Hours of Porn a Day Before Going to Rehab

Cover image credit to Barry Gomer / Sunday People. This article was originally posted on Mirror (UK). It has been edited for content and length. 9 minute…

Fight the New DrugJune 5, 2018

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Seven Major Corporations That Say “No” to Profiting Off Porn

As a $97 billion a year global industry, porn has become a viable revenue stream for otherwise legitimate corporations. Gas stations and gift shops sell porn magazines,…

Fight the New DrugJune 5, 2018

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Porn Site Age Verification Laws in the UK Might Include Buying a “Porn Pass” In Person

Porn is more accessible, affordable, available, and anonymous than ever before. Couple that fact with how it’s also more extreme and violent than ever before in human…

Fight the New DrugJune 4, 2018

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Why Watching Porn Can Never Measure Up To Real Love in Real Life

Ever fallen in love with someone? Or even had a crush, where you felt that butterfly flip in your stomach when you talked to them, or even thought…

Fight the New DrugJune 4, 2018

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This Study Reveals How Teens Can Become Desensitized to Pornographic Material Over Time

The full study can be accessed here. Exposure to online sexual materials in adolescence and desensitization to sexual content Authors: K. Danebacka, A. Sevcíková b, S. Jezek…

Fight the New DrugMay 31, 2018

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Mixing A Lot of Porn and Gaming Fuels Social Isolation, Says Top Psychologist

Science and research are catching up with the facts about porn and its findings are becoming clearer—it's harmful. Did you know that porn can mess with your head, rewiring the actual chemistry of…

Fight the New DrugMay 31, 2018

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I Thought Porn Would Help Me Cope With Past Sexual Abuse—I Was Wrong

Hi guys, Just first off, I want to thank you for the work you're doing to raise awareness on porn's harm, and for starting to remove the…

Fight the New DrugMay 25, 2018

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