Over 100 quick stats and findings from an ever-growing body of research that details the effects of porn for individuals, relationships, and society.
Research assessing the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in treating porn addiction found that “over 95% of clients were able to manage symptoms at the end of the twelve weeks and 78% sustained recovery six months following treatment.”
One review of 20 studies on the topic found that pornography consumption negatively impacts adolescents’ self-esteem and mental health.
In more committed relationships, only 46% of women accurately reported how much their partner consumed porn with nearly 40% of men reporting more consumption than their partners believed was occurring, according to a 2017 study.
People who use porn as a self-soothing technique tend to have some of the lowest reports of emotional and mental wellbeing according to a 2017 study.
59% of online victim recruitment in active sex trafficking cases in the U.S. occurred on Facebook.
Studies consistently show that porn is linked to lower relationship satisfaction and lower relationship quality.
Research shows that women are almost always the targets of violence or aggression in porn —about 97% of the time.
Approximately 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women report consuming porn in the past month, according to a 2020 study.
1 in 3 underage teens report having seen nonconsensually shared nudes of other minors —which is legally considered “child pornography”.
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.”
Research shows remarkable neurological similarities between substance addiction and compulsive pornography consumption.
Porn is considered a supernormal stimulus.
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