“I have felt crushed and devastated ever since I found out. I feel like I can never trust her when she’s home alone. I don’t know what to do anymore.”
There are different ways that porn and sex trafficking are connected. Here are just a few real cases that illustrate the exploitative side of the porn industry.
“All porn teaches is to objectify women and that watching porn makes you a ‘real man.’ Pornography should not be a standard of manhood.”
Young boys of the upcoming generations are being exposed, traumatized, and bound to sexual tastes and behaviors that are almost always exploitative.
Here’s the issue—so many who watch porn feel an enormous amount of shame brought on by others or themselves, which makes the problem so much worse.
“I know how many people I have hurt by contributing to this industry and I want to be able to help make up for my mistakes in any way I can.”
“I was told I wouldn’t make it very far in porn because I was so ‘average.’ Well, except that I was a preschool teacher looking for a new career in porn.”
Here at Fight the New Drug, we talk a lot about how porn actually hurts rather than helps. While porn can at first seem like an easy…
“I never told this to anyone, but when I was seven, one of the girls who was my neighbor introduced me to it, and then I couldn’t stop looking for it on my own. This girl also assaulted me many times.”
It took me a bit of time to write it, but here is my story: When I was in the third grade, I was sexually assaulted. These…
Porn is not only a toxic fantasy, but toxic to fantasy. It’s a shortcut—no need to talk with your partner to discover what they enjoy sexually because it’s right there on the screen in front of you, imagining for you.
It’s harder than ever to deny that pornography use, given its addictive, misogynistic, and violent nature, has a range of negative impacts on consumers.
