“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.”
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.
But I was so tired of being ashamed, and I was so tired of it sucking up my life and compromising my relationships that I finally forced myself to admit it to another person.
As the amount of pornography produced increases and becomes more normalized, the intensity of the degradation it portrays does, too.
Financial sextortion is the fastest-growing cybercrime against youth in the U.S., and predators are specifically targeting teen boys. Learn how this blackmail scam works, how it’s tied to online culture, and how to protect yourself and others.
