I Stopped Watching Porn After I Learned About Trafficking in the Industry Article
“Now, when I see porn ads, it even makes me feel sick. The issue is, how can we simply put a price to belittle and exploit others?”
“Now, when I see porn ads, it even makes me feel sick. The issue is, how can we simply put a price to belittle and exploit others?”
Not only does porn rarely depict consent, but it often portrays a lack of consent as normal and desirable.
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.
“I don’t feel like I can have an intimate relationship… I don’t feel like my body is my own. I can’t look at myself naked in the mirror if I’m getting in and out of the shower…even now, five and a half years later.”
Whether consumers, porn performers, or partners of consumers, countless women report being negatively affected by porn’s influence in their lives.
You might be asking yourself if watching porn is bad for you. It’s a reasonable question, and a complicated one. Let’s talk about what research says.
But why is crypto used more frequently in human trafficking? Reports find the anonymity of cryptocurrency is what’s useful to human traffickers.
If the porn industry was held accountable for their illicit and unethical business practices, would there be any industry left?
Many people thought changes to Twitter’s Terms of Service possibly signaled an upcoming ban of adult content on Twitter—but the truth is the opposite.
We live in a culture that has an expectation that when pop culture figures turn 18, it’s free game to consume explicit images and videos of them. But why?
Each response shows a different opinion about porn, and brings up good points about why porn doesn’t help relationships be healthy.
Consider that many people who consume and possess child sexual abuse material started out viewing fairly “normal” or “vanilla” content that escalated into an interest in more hardcore and violent images and videos.