There is plenty of room for change in the porn industry, but even if extensive improvements did take place, research still shows the harms of porn itself and its deep connection to sex trafficking.
“I am a YouTuber who created a video regarding my journey with self-esteem and choosing to wear a bikini on the beach while overweight to battle the negative self-image.”
The porn industry fuels the demand for exploitation, trafficking, objectification, sexualized racism, sexual violence, and child abuse. Here’s how.
This study falls in line with what so many others are saying about porn—it promotes rape, and it sells anything but healthy consent practices.
GirlsDoPorn founder Michael Pratt pleads guilty to sex trafficking after exploiting hundreds of women—further revealing how the porn industry hides abuse and coercion behind the appearance of entertainment.
Over 2 years ago I found a video of myself on a free porn site. It was the first video I had ever been in, and I was only a few months away from turning 18.
Porn isn’t produced with accurate information about sex in mind, it’s created to entertain and manifest fantasies—no matter how violent or violating.
As the amount of pornography produced increases and becomes more normalized, the intensity of the degradation it portrays does, too.
While it’s clear porn can negatively impact relationships, porn is a common habit—even for those in a committed relationship. But why?
Porn literacy curriculum may be well-intended, but it ultimately neglects decades of studies that have demonstrated porn’s real negative impacts.
Porn divides people in relationships, stunts sexual pleasure, and messes with consumers’ arousal and sexual function. Wouldn’t that make it sex-negative?
With huge numbers of users comes huge amounts of responsibility, and not a single site has developed a porn-proof filtering system or thorough enough moderation team.
