Together, we can #StopTheDemand for pornography and sexual exploitation through education and awareness, rather than restriction. Educate yourself on how the porn industry fuels the demand for sex trafficking, objectification, sexualized racism, nonconsensual content, sexual violence and abuse, and child sexual abuse material.
By raising awareness, you’ll also be helping to…

Stop the Demand
for–Sex Trafficking
Even in mainstream porn with popular performers, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more regularly than most people think. (Lange, 2018)

Stop the Demand
for–Objectification
Research indicates that consuming porn can normalize sexual objectification and dehumanization, which can have profound consequences in the ways porn consumers view and treat others. (Skorska, Hodson, & Hoffarth, 2018; Zhou, Liu, Yan, & Paul, 2021; Wright, Tokunaga, & Kraus, 2016)

Stop the Demand
for–Sexualized Racism
According to a content analysis of over 1,700 scenes on popular porn sites, videos featuring Black people disproportionately emphasize violence and aggression, perpetuate harmful racist stereotypes, and often depict Black people as “worse than objects.” (Fritz, Malic, Paul, & Zhou, 2021)

Stop the Demand
for–Nonconsensual Content
Most major porn sites do not verify the age or consent of all participants involved in the content uploaded to their platforms, making it incredibly easy to upload image-based abuse (sometimes referred to as “revenge porn”) or even child sexual abuse material (also known as “child pornography”). (Kristof, 2021)

Stop the Demand
for–Sexual Violence & Abuse
According to research analyzing the content of porn videos, it’s estimated that as few as 1 in 3 and as many as 9 in 10 videos show acts of physical aggression or violence. (Fritz, Malic, Paul, & Zhou, 2020; Bridges, Wosnitzer, Scharrer, Sun, & Liberman, 2010)

Stop the Demand
for–Child Sexual Abuse Material
Of the domestic minor trafficking victims who had been forced into porn, the average age they began being filmed was 12.8 years old. (Thorn, 2018)
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