Will these changes be enough to prevent abuse and undo the damage that has been done to countless victims of underage content, revenge porn, nonconsensual porn, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and other forms of image-based abuse?
“I’ve been sharing my body with you guys for 10 years, I’ve been doing porn officially for 10 years, so I’m kind of ready to start savoring myself for me. I want to have sex with people that I want to have sex with.”
In a monumental loss for the porn site, Mastercard, Discover, and Visa announced that they had prohibited the use of their cards on Pornhub.
The need for intimacy isn’t something that can be replaced with silicone, webcams, or holographic experiences, no matter how many features and improvements it may have.
Porn kills love by streamlining artificial sexual experiences, and discouraging a need for intimacy by demeaning everything exciting about real connections.
Ever heard of “Premium Snapchat?” It’s the latest way porn creators are accessing their target audiences. The term “premium Snapchat” is an unofficial one, but they do officially exist.
Research is continually showing that porn can harm relationships, and drive a wedge between partners and other relationships.
Basic hashtags such as #sexy, many times containing pornography, collectively have millions of posts, none of which are filtered for young users.
It was only a matter of time—many teens’ TikTok videos of dancing and lip-syncing have reportedly ended up nonconsensually on Pornhub. 😳
According to one researcher, “Google refuses to host porn, but has no limits on observing the porn consumption of users, often without their knowledge.”
If you’re new to the idea that porn is harmful, or you’ve already been aware of the science and research, check out just one more reason to raise awareness that porn is not harmless.
Teen boys’ responses to one author’s book about a sexual assault survivor show how much re-education our porn-saturated culture needs on consent.
