One suggests it’s a healthy pastime for every teenager, while the other points to porn as being a huge contributing factor in ruining relationships. Who is more in line with research?
As a therapist who works primarily with male survivors of sexual abuse, I am grateful for the conversations that Leaving Neverland has sparked. As a society, we have still yet to fully understand or recognize how boys and men experience sexual assault.
Human trafficking has been a problem in the Philippines for a long time, and pornography is only fueling this existing issue.
According to officials, 14 minors were among the nearly 50 victims of human trafficking rescued during a sting across California that netted 339 arrests.
Is it impossible to see how people could think lack of consent and taking advantage of someone sexually is acceptable when porn video after porn video shows them that it is?
Research routinely shows that frequent porn consumers are more likely to sexually objectify and dehumanize others. How?
Here’s the catch: there are repercussions for late or missed payments like the public release of the nude photos or videos, and having to provide sexual services, AKA a “flesh payback.”
“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.”
If society wants to fight against toxic and twisted masculine stereotypes, we need to expose the industries that ultimately fuel and foster this culture.
Last year, a sex doll available for testing by consumers was so molested and damaged at a festival in Austria, it had to be extensively repaired.
With an increasing number of resolutions to consider porn a public health crisis, more people are wondering about the potential harms of pornography. But what does the research say?
