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.
Whether you’ve been with this movement five minutes or five years, here are ten things you need to know about Fight the New Drug as an organization.
“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.”
The porn industry says they empower women, yet are constantly degrading and exploiting them. The research speaks for itself.
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.
A marriage with a secret—until he got caught. When the truth came out, love gave him something porn never could: hope
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.
“Last week, I celebrated my 500th day free from porn. Even though I have been in recovery for two years, it took most of the first year of working through my baggage and getting the tools I needed to find freedom.”
If you’re someone who isn’t ready or willing to date someone who has struggled, that’s okay. Here at Fight the New Drug, we believe fighting against shame is part of the fight against porn.
Pornography often becomes the coping tool of choice not out of weakness or depravity, but because it works… at least for a moment. But what feels like water turns out to be gasoline. Instead of easing the fire, it intensifies the blaze.
