Betrayal trauma is a real thing, and it looks different for each person. Most people feel heartbroken and go through a mourning process. The lies and broken trust are often what hurt the most.
The harms of porn don’t discriminate based on your relationship status. Porn can negatively affect the consumer and harm their potential future relationships, even if they are not currently in a relationship.
Porn is actually the definition of sex-negative. Here are three reasons that explain why not watching porn is a pretty sex-positive choice.
Porn is something you can choose to view by yourself, but watching explicit videos of strangers having sex doesn’t just affect you—it affects your partner.
“I was single and thought it wouldn’t affect me once I was in a relationship or married. Now though…I believe I not only made a smart decision in giving up porn after that, but a life-altering decision, too.”
There’s a lot of information out there about how the porn industry exploits women–but what about men? Here are some ways that porn can degrade, victimize, and exploit men and their insecurities.
Here are a few ways porn hurts consumers regardless of relationship status and why you might want to think twice before turning to porn to fill an emotional or sexual gap in your life.
The porn industry is not truly focused on celebrating sex; it’s focused on making a profit at the expense of consumers’ sexual health and satisfaction.
Porn can lead to isolation, objectification, and shame. Any of these are not great in any type of relationship, including friendships.
“He makes zero attempts to initiate sex and even calls it a ‘chore,’ saying that he gets to ‘enjoy himself instead of having to focus on satisfying someone else’ because it ‘gets old.'”
The Gottman Institute shared how research on the effects of porn consumption shows that it can hurt a couple’s relationship.
“Somehow I got the sick, twisted idea in my head that as long as my boyfriend was hooked to porn, I would have to get skinnier.”
