“I had to constantly watch ‘cam to cam,’ site feature where you get paid to watch the person at the other side of the interaction. This was very traumatizing because I never knew what would come up on screen.”
How does porn impact people’s lives, specifically women? Meet Emma, a 19-year-old cosmetology school student who struggled with porn for much of her youth.
“I don’t feel beautiful, and I don’t feel sexy. Because in the back of my mind, I know he has a ‘type’—and it isn’t anything close to what I look like.”
“I realize that porn led me to weird, even dangerous, scenarios. It felt cool at the time, but at 14, I’d click from porn to chat rooms, where I’d connect with men much older than me.”
If porn wasn’t harmful to relationships, the majority of research would reflect that partners’ insecurities cause issues, not porn itself, right?
“I was a fully-fledged addict. I needed drugs to get me through porn scenes. I needed drugs to numb my pain. I needed drugs to make me feel ‘happy.'”
Men aren’t the only ones with porn habits. Research shows more women are consuming porn, and it’s having negative effects on their relationships, too.
“In December, I found four years’ worth of porn and other inappropriate content on his computer. And that was it. The final straw.”
“She was heartbroken to find that I had been doing something that betrayed her trust in me and made her feel inadequate. I was disgusted by what I had done and swore to never do it again.”
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“I don’t have many regrets in my life, but if I’m being honest, I do have just one. I regret letting porn overtake my life and my time. I can’t begin to describe how much I want the last decade back.”
“Last month, I finally had the calm and confidence in my heart to talk to him.”
