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Decades of studies from respected academic institutions have demonstrated significant impacts of porn consumption for individuals, relationships, and society. Each of the articles below summarizes relevant research on a specific topic surrounding porn’s harms to help you be more informed and more empowered with the facts.

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How Porn Can Impact Individuals
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How Porn Can Change the Brain

Because of neuroplasticity, our brains constantly change in healthy ways that help us learn and complete tasks more efficiently. Yet, supernormal stimuli such as porn can trigger…
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How Porn Can Contribute to an Unhealthy Cycle of Stress

When a person is suffering from an addiction or compulsion, their stress response and their addiction can become intertwined in unhealthy ways, thus creating an unhealthy coping…
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How Porn Can Become an Escalating Behavior

Research indicates that porn consumers can become desensitized to porn, often needing to consume more porn, more extreme forms of porn, or consume porn more often in…
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Why Porn Can Be Difficult to Quit

When it comes to the topic of porn, one of the most common questions is whether or not it can actually be addictive. According to many addiction…
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How Porn Can Affect the Brain Like a Drug

A deeper look into how the brain works reveals that addictions to harmful substances like tobacco have striking similarities to porn compulsion, including impaired decision-making.
How Porn Can Impact Relationships
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How Porn Can Impact Mental Health and Fuel Loneliness

Many porn consumers use porn as a self-soothing technique when they’re feeling lonely or depressed, but research suggests that porn may actually fuel mental health issues, rather…
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How Porn Can Normalize Sexual Objectification

Research indicates that consuming porn can normalize sexual objectification, which can have profound consequences in the ways porn consumers view and treat others.
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How Porn Can Negatively Impact Love and Intimacy

Countless studies consistently show that porn consumers tend to struggle in their relationships. From poorer relationship quality to an increased likelihood of cheating, research suggests that porn…
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How Porn Can Hurt a Consumer’s Partner

For people whose partners consume porn, feelings of rejection, mistrust, anger, and shame are unfortunately common.
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How Porn Can Harm Consumers’ Sex Lives

Ironically, despite porn’s promise of improving consumers’ sex lives, there is growing evidence that porn consumption is linked to sexual dysfunction and less sexual satisfaction.
How Porn Can Impact Society
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How the Porn Industry Profits From Nonconsensual Content and Abuse

In the porn industry, there is virtually no way to guarantee that any piece of pornographic content is truly consensual, ethical, or even legal.
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How Porn Can Distort Consumers’ Understanding of Healthy Sex

Most young people are getting at least some of their education about sex from porn, whether they mean to or not. This is especially concerning, considering how…
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How Porn Can Promote Sexual Violence

As few as 1 in 3 and as many as 9 in 10 porn videos depict sexual violence or aggression. That's especially concerning, considering that research indicates…
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Why Today’s Internet Porn is Unlike Anything the World Has Ever Seen

Porn is incomparably more accessible and more extreme than anything available before the internet. A couple of ratty old centerfold magazines found in the park are nothing…
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How Porn Can Fuel Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking shares a variety of symbiotic connections to pornography. Even in the production of mainstream porn, sex trafficking can still occur—and it happens more often than…
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