Why This Guys-Only College House Decided to All Ditch Porn Together Article
Depending on the semester, anywhere from 8 to 16 college guys living at The Abbey are in the fight against porn together. How do they do it?
Depending on the semester, anywhere from 8 to 16 college guys living at The Abbey are in the fight against porn together. How do they do it?
“I quickly became obsessed with pleasing my boyfriend. I would watch all the porn he watched and study it like a textbook.”
After the attack and murder of this woman was widely publicized, within days, her name became the number one search term on one of the world’s largest porn sites.
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“If girls’ legs are crossed, boys often walk by and say, ‘Spread ‘em.’ They are in sixth grade. No 11-year-old should have to deal with things like this.”
“That feeling of being alone changed my junior year in college when a counseling group was started for women struggling with pornography. I walked into that room and it hit me that I wasn’t alone.”
“I can’t go anywhere without visually critiquing the men I see. I look at them like products and evaluate them like I am assigning their prices.”
“I would brag about how cool I was for being so open-minded and boys would often be amazed and tell me they wished their girlfriends were like me.”
“This story starts about two years ago, when I started getting strange phone calls from a blocked number… He called one day and said, ‘I watch.'”
“It wasn’t until I decided to quit porn and really focus on my family and wife that things turned around. It’s been the best 4 months of my life so far!”
“Up until I found out, I didn’t have a clue; but whenever I left him home alone, that different side of him would come out.”
“I was approached by a man when I was alone at National Gallery in London who introduced himself as an art professor looking for models.”