Over 100 quick stats and findings from an ever-growing body of research that details the effects of porn for individuals, relationships, and society.
83% of active 2020 sex trafficking cases involved online solicitation, which is overwhelmingly the most common tactic traffickers use to solicit sex buyers.
Research suggests that frequent porn consumers are less likely to intervene during a sexual assault.
Research suggests that frequent porn consumers are more likely to express an intent to rape.
Research suggests that frequent porn consumers are more likely to victim-blame survivors of sexual violence.
Over 90% of police officers report that self-generated intimate images of minors are common in their investigations of CSEM.
59% of online victim recruitment in active sex trafficking cases in the U.S. occurred on Facebook.
The Internet Watch Foundation recently reported that during 2020, approximately 44% of all child sexual abuse material reported to the IWF involved self-generated material. That’s a 16% increase from 2019 when only a third of reports involved self-generated imagery.
According to one report on domestic minor sex trafficking, survivors indicate that they were sometimes “advertised” on porn sites.
Of domestic minor trafficking victims who had been forced into porn production, the average age they began being filmed was 12.8 years old.
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.
Reports show that those who sexually abuse children often show their victims porn to groom them or normalize sexual abuse.
In one survey of underage sex trafficking victims, 63% said they had been advertised or sold online.
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