Category: Pornography

While it’s clear porn can negatively impact relationships, porn is a common habit—even for those in a committed relationship. But why?

Deepfake porn is on the rise, causing severe social, psychological, and career consequences for its victims. Learn how this harmful trend is affecting people and what we can do to fight back.

Pornography websites are fueling the rise in child sex abuse by using algorithms to direct users to extreme material, desensitizing them to abuse and sexual assault, according to the Washington-based National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

Porn is more than just entertainment—it rewires your brain, affects relationships, and influences society. Learn the facts and take a stand.

Porn literacy curriculum may be well-intended, but it ultimately neglects decades of studies that have demonstrated porn’s real negative impacts

There are people out there in the commercial sex industry who say they love performing in porn and enthusiastically consent to it. But there are also many individuals who have been sex trafficked into the porn industry, as well as established consenting performers who have been abused on set. How can consumers tell the difference between consensually produced videos and videos involving exploitation? The tricky part is that there’s no reliable way to.

After examining 400 popular porn videos, U of Amsterdam researchers concluded that porn does, in fact, objectify men, just in a different way than women.

I struggle. I am not the only woman who does. Maybe you do. Maybe you know someone that does. I was convinced that I was the only one. I was so ashamed of myself, and I felt like I was hiding all of the time. The struggle is real. I get it.

We’ve all heard stories from smokers or former smokers that include something like, “It started with one cigarette, but eventually, I was smoking two packs a day. It’s one of the hallmarks of substance abuse: escalation. Users require more and more of their drug of choice to ‘get the same high,’ and their pattern of abuse is driven by their need for a greater quantity. This is especially true when the abuse is spiraling into addiction. But what about porn? Can porn consumption be an escalating behavior as well?

With huge numbers of users comes huge amounts of responsibility, and not a single site has developed a porn-proof filtering system or thorough enough moderation team.