Porn sells the toxic idea that women are always eager and ready to have sex, and that they’re very easy to arouse. How are these unrealistic fantasies shaping society’s understanding of women?
Bella had some interesting things to say about people who don’t like porn and we’d like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.
After the attack and murder of this woman was widely publicized, within days, her name became the number one search term on one of the world’s largest porn sites.
Watch these passionate advocates actually have a civil, productive conversation about porn and take notes the next time you’re talking about porn’s harms with someone.
“I learned early not to tell ANYONE. Every few years, word would get around on the playground, and fistfights would start… It wasn’t until high school though that some of the other students were 18 and could go to the strip club my mother worked at. More fights.”
The irony of a porn site responding to the COVID-19 public health crisis by encouraging and supplying access to another public health issue is not lost on us.
“I would brag about how cool I was for being so open-minded and boys would often be amazed and tell me they wished their girlfriends were like me.”
“This story starts about two years ago, when I started getting strange phone calls from a blocked number… He called one day and said, ‘I watch.'”
Many of his victims didn’t know they’d been assaulted. How is it okay that there are entire porn genres dedicated to the exact illicit behavior Sinaga is going to prison for?
Objects don’t have feelings. Objects are owned by people. If we turn people into objects, we no longer see them as having feelings and can’t empathize with them.
Not every porn consumer will turn to illegal content, but many do. This is why we raise awareness that porn is anything but harmless entertainment.
Porn is an estimated $97 billion global industry and much of it is free to watch. So what’s the real cost of free porn? And who really pays in the end?
