“It all started when I began noticing him staying up. Then one day I was going through our computer history and there I found it: loads and loads of porn.”
It’s harder than ever to deny that pornography use, given its addictive, misogynistic, and violent nature, has a range of negative impacts on consumers.
Porn kills love by streamlining artificial sexual experiences, and discouraging a need for intimacy by demeaning everything exciting about real connections.
“My husband wouldn’t stop looking at porn no matter what I did. Then one day it dawned on me. What if I join in? What if I watch porn with him?”
“Porn is a personal choice.” “Mind your own business, porn doesn’t hurt anyone.” “If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.” These are pretty common pro-porn arguments,…
“After our first son was born, I found it in the search history again, I felt betrayed and sick to my stomach scrolling through descriptions of women that looked nothing like me.”
“He had kept it hidden but when I found out I told him how uncomfortable I was with it. From then on, I would catch him looking at porn off and on and then would explain to him my feelings about how it made me feel.”
“When I was two years old, I was sold into human trafficking and was taught that children needed to allow grown men to use their bodies.”
“You know I stopped watching porn. You don’t know that it was because I woke back up after seeing disturbing videos of women being used as sex slaves.”
“I lost my job. I got arrested for being with an escort. And now, I have a record and it’s harder to find a job…it’s a never ending cycle.”
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