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(Hald, Malamuth, & Lange, 2013; Seabrook, Ward, & Giaccardi, 2019)
Research indicates that porn can fuel sexist attitudes in porn consumers.
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Fast Fact #92
(Ruvalcaba & Eaton, 2020)
1 in 12 U.S. adults report that they have been victims of image-based abuse —sometimes called “revenge porn—and 1 in 20 report that they have been perpetrators of image-based abuse.
(Volkow, Koob, & McLellan, 2016)
Some experts have determined four major brain changes common to addicted brains—sensitization, desensitization, hypofrontality, and a malfunctioning stress system— all of which can be found in cases of pornography consumption.
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Fast Fact #15
(Rothman, Beckmeyer, Herbenick, Fu, Dodge, & Fortenberry, 2021)
Results of a survey of young adults show that 1 in 4 (24.5%) listed pornography as the most helpful source to learn how to have sex.
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Fast Fact #26
(Lambert, Negash, Stillman, Olmstead, & Fincham, 2012; Rasmussen, 2016)
Porn consumers tend to be less committed to their partners.
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Fast Fact #51
(Martellozzo, Monaghan, Adler, Davidson, Leyva, & Horvath, 2016)
Over half of 11 to 16-year-old boys (53%) and over a third of 11 to 16-year-old girls (39%) reported believing that pornography was a realistic depiction of sex, according to a 2016 report.
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Fast Fact #56
(Banca, Morris, Mitchell, Harrison, Potenza, & Voon, 2016; Kühn & Gallinat, 2014)
Desensitization, or a numbed pleasure response, has been shown to happen in cases of pornography consumption.
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Fast Fact #7
(Feehs & Wheeler, 2021)
65% of underage victims recruited online in 2020 active criminal sex trafficking cases were recruited through Facebook, while 14% were recruited through Instagram, and 8% were recruited through Snapchat.
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  • Feehs, K., & Wheeler, A. C. (2021). 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report. Human Trafficking Institute. Retrieved from https://www.traffickinginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2020-Federal-Human-Trafficking-Report-Low-Res.pdf
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Fast Fact #106
(Donevan, 2021)
Qualitative research with current and former porn performers suggests that sexual exploitation and trafficking are common experiences in the porn industry.
(Bouché, 2015)
According to one report on domestic minor sex trafficking, survivors indicate that they were sometimes “advertised” on porn sites.

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