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.
Here’s something to consider: no one needs porn. Guys don’t need porn. Women don’t need porn. People can choose for themselves.
Studies find that 99% of deepfake porn videos are of celebrities, like Kristen Bell, who have been featured in content they didn’t consented to.
These are just a few of the less-than-ideal situations that have happened on OnlyFans, either with creators or their subscribers.
While the sexualization of youth goes beyond porn, porn today plays a huge role in spreading it. In porn, the fetishization of the underage is blatant.
This largest study of online porn to date raises questions about the extent of sexually violent, nonconsensual, and even criminal material freely available on mainstream porn websites.
Body types, body hair, relationship types—some of the most normal things about people are disproportionately represented and packaged as “fetish” genres in porn.
According to a 2019 study, more than 3.3 million American women ages 18 to 44 were raped the first time they had a sexual encounter.
“I gathered up information, took a breath in, and talked to him… He expressed gratitude for me bringing all the information to light for him. And he quit cold turkey that day.”
Did you know porn is connected to sex trafficking, some porn sites host child exploitation content, and porn can harm consumers’ sexual health?
An investigation of OnlyFans by the BBC allegedly found the site isn’t doing enough to ensure uploaded content is legal and creators are 18+.
