Even if porn is just a fantasy and a form of entertainment, why do we think it’s acceptable to fantasize about and be entertained by violence against women?
Can we as a society address the issue of violence against women without also acknowledging how porn perpetuates it?
According to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), about one-third of the vast number of child sex abuse images reported online are originally posted by children themselves.
“Pornography use and other variables uniquely predicted making unwanted sexual advances toward women.”
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Porn kills love by streamlining artificial sexual experiences, and discouraging a need for intimacy by demeaning everything exciting about real connections.
Even though cartoons are not real bodies, it can encourage men to commit violence against women and girls; it makes sexual violence a form of entertainment.
We think it’s a huge relief that someone doesn’t have to have a specific set of beliefs or political persuasion to be against exploitation.
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.
This may be because online porn contains more violence than romance/affection or because young people perceive violence more often than romance/affection. Either way, this is cause for concern.
The data is clear: porn has the ability to kill empathy in consumers. Considering how empathy is essential to love, this hurts the bond partners have.
This viral video shows how porn paves the way for us to take the behavior that happens in #MeToo stories less seriously as a society.
