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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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The Alarming Rise of Deepfake Porn and Its Devastating Effects

Deepfake porn is on the rise, causing severe social, psychological, and career consequences for its victims. Learn how this harmful trend is affecting people and what we…

April 13, 2025

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Why You Can’t Consistently Fight Sexual Abuse Without Also Fighting Porn

I walked with men to the police station and child services to turn themselves in for sexual abuse. They had been addicted to porn and what they…

Fight the New DrugApril 11, 2025

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How Bad Is Porn, Really?

Porn is more than just entertainment—it rewires your brain, affects relationships, and influences society. Learn the facts and take a stand.

April 9, 2025

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Should Teens Be Taught How to “Responsibly Consume” Porn?

Porn literacy curriculum may be well-intended, but it ultimately neglects decades of studies that have demonstrated porn's real negative impacts.

Fight the New DrugApril 7, 2025

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Are There Any Issues With Watching Consensual Porn?

Even if porn could be exploitation-free, this wouldn’t cancel out the research proving porn’s harmful effects nor the issues with what porn normalizes.

Fight the New DrugApril 3, 2025

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How Porn Objectifies Men and Harms Male Consumers

After examining 400 popular porn videos, U of Amsterdam researchers concluded that porn does, in fact, objectify men, just in a different way than women.

Fight the New DrugApril 1, 2025

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Don’t think Women Struggle with Porn? Read Stories from 5 Who Have

"That feeling of being alone changed my junior year in college when a counseling group was started for women struggling with pornography. I walked into that room and…

Fight the New DrugMarch 28, 2025

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Being Anti-Porn and Pro-Sex is Not Only Possible, It’s Necessary

Porn divides people in relationships, stunts sexual pleasure, and messes with consumers' arousal and sexual function. Wouldn't that make it sex-negative?

Fight the New DrugMarch 26, 2025

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What Porn, Loneliness, and OnlyFans Have To Do with Men Buying Sex

With the accessibility of porn and a sharp increase in popularity of the OnlyFans platform, a whole new demographic of (much younger) men are entering the commercial…

Fight the New DrugMarch 24, 2025

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There’s a Serious Porn Problem on Popular Social Media Platforms

With huge numbers of users comes huge amounts of responsibility, and not a single site has developed a porn-proof filtering system or thorough enough moderation team.

Fight the New DrugMarch 22, 2025

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Teens Watch Porn to Learn About Sex—This Is What Porn Teaches Them

The reality is that porn is a part of the world that kids are growing up with, and it’s important to be aware of the potential consequences…

March 14, 2025

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How Does Porn Impact Women?

Whether consumers, porn performers, or partners of consumers, countless women report being negatively affected by porn's influence in their lives.

Fight the New DrugMarch 10, 2025

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VPNs Create Loopholes in Pornhub Age-Verification Laws

Age-verification laws have blocked Pornhub in 17 states, but VPNs let kids bypass these restrictions. This article highlights the importance of open conversations about pornography and offers…

March 8, 2025

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How to Bring Up Porn’s Harms in These 5 Everyday Conversations

The more facts you learn about porn's harms, the more comfortable you’ll be with bringing it up. But how can you translate those facts into a conversation?

Fight the New DrugMarch 2, 2025

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How Watching Porn When You’re Single Can Hurt Your Future Relationships

Here are a few ways porn hurts consumers regardless of relationship status and why you might want to think twice before turning to porn to fill an…

Fight the New DrugFebruary 28, 2025

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