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3 Ideas Our Culture Believes About Porn That Aren’t Backed by Research

Let's talk about three ideas our current culture widely believes about porn that need some reevaluation. What is research actually saying?

Fight the New DrugApril 29, 2025

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What Can You Do to Fight Child Exploitation in Your Community?

Some estimates of pedophilia indicate that there are 1.1 million men living with this disorder in the U.S., which means that's 1 in every 296 men.

Fight the New DrugApril 25, 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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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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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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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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Did You Know Men and Boys Can Be Victims of Sex Trafficking, Too?

The perception of what trafficking victims look like can often jump to mind: young, foreign, female. There are many victims of trafficking like her, but she's not…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 27, 2025

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What Would it Take to Stop Human Sex Trafficking Forever?

Complex social issues like sex trafficking need multi-faceted solutions that include protection, prosecution, and prevention. Can we solve it?

Fight the New DrugJanuary 23, 2025

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How to Report Human Trafficking When You See Something Suspicious

If something seems off, it’s a good idea to report it. And remember, these signs can appear anywhere in any context, whether it’s someone you just met…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 19, 2025

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Are There Videos of Trafficking Victims on Mainstream Porn Sites?

If someone is forced, manipulated into, or threatened into performing any sex act in exchange for money, safety, or to evade punishment, this is trafficking. And it…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 11, 2025

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9 Popular Conspiracy Theories About Sex Trafficking, Debunked

The issue of sex trafficking is not a myth, but there are myths about sex trafficking. If you want to get involved in helping to rescue victims,…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 3, 2025

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How the Porn Industry Profits From Nonconsensual Content and Abuse

In the porn industry, there is virtually no way to guarantee that any piece of pornographic content is truly consensual, ethical, or even legal.

Fight the New DrugAugust 24, 2024

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How Porn Can Distort Consumers’ Understanding of Healthy Sex

Most young people are getting at least some of their education about sex from porn, whether they mean to or not. This is especially concerning, considering how…

Fight the New DrugAugust 18, 2024

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How Porn Can Become an Escalating Behavior

Research indicates that porn consumers can become desensitized to porn, often needing to consume more porn, more extreme forms of porn, or consume porn more often in…

Fight the New DrugMay 20, 2024

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How Porn Can Contribute to an Unhealthy Cycle of Stress

When a person is suffering from an addiction or compulsion, their stress response and their addiction can become intertwined in unhealthy ways, thus creating an unhealthy coping…

Fight the New DrugMay 26, 2024

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How Porn Can Negatively Impact Love and Intimacy

Countless studies consistently show that porn consumers tend to struggle in their relationships. From poorer relationship quality to an increased likelihood of cheating, research suggests that porn…

Fight the New DrugMay 14, 2021

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How Porn Can Hurt a Consumer’s Partner

For people whose partners consume porn, feelings of rejection, mistrust, anger, and shame are unfortunately common.

Fight the New DrugMay 14, 2021

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How Porn Can Harm Consumers’ Sex Lives

Ironically, despite porn’s promise of improving consumers’ sex lives, there is growing evidence that porn consumption is linked to sexual dysfunction and less sexual satisfaction.

Fight the New DrugMay 13, 2021

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How Porn Can Impact Mental Health and Fuel Loneliness

Many porn consumers use porn as a self-soothing technique when they’re feeling lonely or depressed, but research suggests that porn may actually fuel mental health issues, rather…

Fight the New DrugAugust 20, 2024

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How Porn Can Promote Sexual Violence

As few as 1 in 3 and as many as 9 in 10 porn videos depict sexual violence or aggression. That's especially concerning, considering that research indicates…

Fight the New DrugAugust 12, 2024

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How Porn Can Fuel Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking shares a variety of symbiotic connections to pornography. Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 21, 2024

Articles in Sex Trafficking

3 Ideas Our Culture Believes About Porn That Aren’t Backed by Research

What Can You Do to Fight Child Exploitation in Your Community?

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

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

Are There Any Issues With Watching Consensual Porn?

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

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

Did You Know Men and Boys Can Be Victims of Sex Trafficking, Too?

What Would it Take to Stop Human Sex Trafficking Forever?

How to Report Human Trafficking When You See Something Suspicious

Are There Videos of Trafficking Victims on Mainstream Porn Sites?

9 Popular Conspiracy Theories About Sex Trafficking, Debunked

Must-Reads

How the Porn Industry Profits From Nonconsensual Content and Abuse

How Porn Can Distort Consumers’ Understanding of Healthy Sex

How Porn Can Become an Escalating Behavior

How Porn Can Contribute to an Unhealthy Cycle of Stress

How Porn Can Negatively Impact Love and Intimacy

How Porn Can Hurt a Consumer’s Partner

How Porn Can Harm Consumers’ Sex Lives

How Porn Can Impact Mental Health and Fuel Loneliness

How Porn Can Promote Sexual Violence

How Porn Can Fuel Sex Trafficking

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