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15 Research-Packed Articles Illustrating Porn’s Harms

Why Porn Can Be Difficult To Quit

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How Porn Can Negatively Impact Love And Intimacy

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How Porn Can Fuel Sex Trafficking

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How Porn Can Become An Escalating Behavior

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How Porn Can Hurt A Consumer’s Partner

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How The Porn Industry Profits From Nonconsensual Content And Abuse

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How Porn Can Change The Brain

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How Porn Can Harm Consumers’ Sex Lives

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How Porn Can Promote Sexual Violence

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How Porn Can Affect The Brain Like A Drug

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How Porn Can Normalize Sexual Objectification

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Why Today’s Internet Porn Is Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen

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How Porn Can Contribute To An Unhealthy Cycle Of Stress

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How Porn Can Impact Mental Health And Fuel Loneliness

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How Porn Can Distort Consumers’ Understanding Of Healthy Sex

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3 Leaked Celebrity Sex Tapes You Didn’t Know Were Actually Revenge Porn

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.

Fight the New DrugAugust 28, 2025

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Porn Almost* Ruined My Marriage

A marriage with a secret—until he got caught. When the truth came out, love gave him something porn never could: hope

Fight the New DrugAugust 15, 2025

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When Porn Use Shatters Trust: A Therapist Explains Betrayal Trauma

In the case of pornography use, betrayal trauma isn’t always about the behavior itself. It’s about deception, secrecy, and the emotional distance it creates.

Fight the New DrugAugust 3, 2025

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Today’s Teens are Distributing Child Porn of Themselves Without Knowing It

The momentary thrill of being noticed by your crush is definitely overshadowed by the many risks of sexting—ending up in court is only one of them.

Fight the New DrugJuly 31, 2025

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How Porn and Sex Trafficking are Connected

Virtually every major porn site has reportedly hosted and profited from trafficking, child sexual abuse material, image-based abuse, and/or degradation.

Fight the New DrugJuly 30, 2025

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15 Facts About Human Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is legally defined as a situation in which “a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced…

Fight the New DrugJuly 28, 2025

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“Fauxcest”: Why is Incest-Themed Porn Getting So Popular?

Some porn performers have sworn off incest-themed content altogether, regardless of how it affects their income—others aren't so convicted.

Fight the New DrugJuly 26, 2025

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This is How the Porn Industry Profits from Blatantly Racist Portrayals of Black People

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.

Fight the New DrugJuly 24, 2025

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4 Ways to Support Yourself & Your Partner Through a Struggle With Porn

Supporting a partner dealing with porn struggles can be challenging, even when they're actively fighting it. How can you both combat it as a team?

Fight the New DrugJuly 23, 2025

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If the Porn Industry was Ethical, Would that Make Porn Healthy to Watch?

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…

Fight the New DrugJuly 23, 2025

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This Mother Trafficked Herself to Rescue Her Trafficked Teen Daughter

After a 16-year-old girl was sex trafficked from Bangladesh to India by a family friend, her mother set out to rescue her herself. This is the story…

Fight the New DrugJuly 22, 2025

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Why I Quit Watching Porn for My Family and Myself

"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…

Fight the New DrugJuly 20, 2025

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The Brain’s Delete Button: How You Can Erase Years of Watching Porn

It is possible to delete porn's harmful effects on your brain. Rest assured, our brains are fully customizable, and we decide how they change.

Fight the New DrugJuly 18, 2025

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Watching Porn Can Make Real Sex Seem Boring

Porn has the potential to completely rewire what we find arousing, and what we desire and expect from sexual intimacy in real life.

Fight the New DrugJuly 16, 2025

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15 Ways Porn is Connected to Real Sexual Violence

Not all porn features violence, but even non-violent porn is associated with negative effects like increased sexual aggression.

Fight the New DrugJuly 14, 2025

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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…

Fight the New DrugAugust 6, 2024

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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.

Fight the New DrugMay 8, 2024

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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…

Fight the New DrugMay 26, 2024

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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…

Fight the New DrugAugust 30, 2024

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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…

Fight the New DrugAugust 18, 2024

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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…

Fight the New DrugMay 14, 2024

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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.

Fight the New DrugMay 14, 2021

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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…

Fight the New DrugAugust 20, 2024

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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…

Fight the New DrugAugust 12, 2024

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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…

Fight the New DrugMay 20, 2024

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