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(Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Bella, Potenza, Demetrovics, & Orosz, 2021)
According to a 2021 study, only 5.94% of porn-consuming respondents said that they watched porn because of a "lack of sexual satisfaction." In other words, the vast majority of porn consumers are watching porn for reasons other than their partner not being "enough."
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Fast Fact #28
(Zhou & Paul, 2016)
Research has found that porn featuring Asian people often promotes racism by focusing on degrading stereotypes, including presenting Asian women as submissive objects.
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Fast Fact #91
(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
(Xian, Chock, & Dwiggins, 2017)
LGBTQ+ youth who are rejected because of their sexual orientation or gender identity are particularly vulnerable to potential psychological/emotional manipulation by traffickers or predators who may take advantage of them.
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  • Xian, K., Chock, S., & Dwiggins, D. (2017). LGBTQ youth and vulnerability to sex trafficking. In M. Chisolm-Straker, & H. Stoklosa (Eds.), Human trafficking is a public health issue: A paradigm expansion in the United States (pp. 141). Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47824-1 Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-47824-1.pdf
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Fast Fact #80
(Malcolm & Naufal, 2016)
According to a 2016 study, people who view porn regularly are less likely to get married than those who do not. Researchers suggest this may be because consumers see porn as a substitute for sexual gratification in a relationship.
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Fast Fact #38
(Martellozzo, Monaghan, Adler, Davidson, Leyva, & Horvath, 2016)
Over 46% of young people reported that they saw online porn for the first time when it just “popped up”, and 22% reported that someone else showed it to them when they weren’t expecting it.
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Fast Fact #23
(Love, Laier, Brand, Hatch, & Hajela, 2015; Gola, Wordecha, Sescousse, Lew-Starowicz, Kossowski, Wypych, Makeig, Potenza, & Marchewka, 2017)
There is an ever-growing body of research showing that pornography addiction is very real.
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Fast Fact #6
(Vera-Gray, McGlynn, Kureshi, & Butterby, 2021)
Research indicates that “hidden cam” videos are a common theme on porn sites, making it difficult to determine which videos are consensual and which are not.
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Fast Fact #89
(Rothman, Kaczmarsky, Burke, Jansen, & Baughman, 2015)
Research indicates that young people often feel pressured to imitate porn when having sex.
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Fast Fact #55
(Fritz, Malic, Paul, & Zhou, 2021)
A 2021 study analyzed videos from popular porn sites and found that porn featuring Black people tends to perpetuate harmful racist stereotypes, disproportionately emphasize violence and aggression, and often depicts Black people as “worse than objects.”
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Fast Fact #90