From fantasies to reality: How porn is teaching millions to act aggressively in the bedroom, and why it’s more dangerous than you think.
Have you heard the claim that watching porn is a natural and important part of having your sexual needs met? Research has shown the opposite—here’s a closer look.
When turning 18 becomes a countdown to exploitation—how “barely legal” OnlyFans content fuels child exploitation.
VR porn promises a fantasy world, but it is just that. Relying on sight and sound provides a sense of immersion, but it cannot (at least not yet) stimulate your other senses.
“This is what porn did for me. It reduced me to feeling ashamed of myself because I didn’t have the ‘confidence’ to hurt or humiliate men for money.”
What do Marilyn Monroe, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, and Kim Kardashian all have in common? The porn industry has nonconsensually profited from explicit images of them.
Porn has been normalized for a while, but now—more than ever—porn culture in high schools is impacting students’ relationships with others and themselves.
Virtually every major porn site has reportedly hosted and profited from trafficking, child sexual abuse material, image-based abuse, and/or degradation.
Sex trafficking is legally defined as a situation in which “a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.” That means that sex trafficking doesn’t always involve kidnapping or physical force.
Some porn performers have sworn off incest-themed content altogether, regardless of how it affects their income—others aren’t so convicted.
Ideas that originated in slavery continue to be explicitly depicted in porn. Dr. Carolyn West uncovers the porn industry’s racist portrayals of Black people.
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.
