“People Become Objects”: Why Terry Crews Wants You to Stop Watching Porn Article
We applaud Terry Crews for choosing to use his globally recognized platform to talk about the real scientific harms of pornography.
We applaud Terry Crews for choosing to use his globally recognized platform to talk about the real scientific harms of pornography.
Porn literacy curriculum may be well-intended, but it ultimately neglects decades of studies that have demonstrated porn’s real negative impacts.
Can porn negatively impact you or have negative side effects on your sexual and mental health, and the health of our society? The short answer is yes, and the longer answer requires an explanation of decades of studies.
There’s a lot of information about porn out there, and not all of it is quality, accurate, or fact-based. Here, we fact-check a few common arguments about porn from all over the spectrum.
“Things about porn that used to excite me and turn me on, do nothing but disgust me now. I finally feel clean from watching all that stuff for a decade.”
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 sex market.
There is a wealth of data showing that viewing porn is harmful to men in unique ways and that it’s damaging to efforts to achieve gender equality.
“For one thing, my brain has been rewired so much, everything in the world is sexualized. I am acutely aware of physical space and read into body language too much.”
Not only does porn rarely depict consent, but it often portrays a lack of consent as normal and desirable—often at women’s expense and dehumanization.
This study found that young people report learning about sex from porn. Frequent female porn consumers are more likely to report learning about body aesthetics and “how to be a good sexual partner” from porn, which is concerning considering the toxic narratives porn perpetuates.
Researchers found that pornography consumers are much more likely to dehumanize others, which is linked to sexually aggressive attitudes and behaviors.
It’s not as much a matter of if but when your child will encounter porn. So here are five tips for navigating “porn talks” with your kids.