What Factors Drive Men to Watch Porn and Buy Sex? Blog

What Factors Drive Men to Watch Porn and Buy Sex?

Whether driven by a desire to repress emotions, wanting a distraction, or just old-fashioned boredom, porn provides an easy escape—and an onramp to buying sex.

Fight the New DrugJuly 7, 2022

Child Sexual Abuse Images Cause Different Distress Than Sexual Abuse Itself Blog

Child Sexual Abuse Images Cause Different Distress Than Sexual Abuse Itself

Nearly half of survivors who were forced to appear in child sexual abuse material report that the images of their exploitation caused additional distress to the sexual…

Fight the New DrugJuly 7, 2022

How Men Can Confront the Negative Impacts Porn Can Have on Them Blog

How Men Can Confront the Negative Impacts Porn Can Have on Them

There is a wealth of data showing that viewing porn is harmful to men in unique ways and that it's damaging to efforts to achieve gender equality.

Fight the New DrugJuly 5, 2022

Does Porn Objectify Both Men and Women? Yes, But in Different Ways Blog

Does Porn Objectify Both Men and Women? Yes, But in Different Ways

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

Fight the New DrugJuly 1, 2022

R. Kelly Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking Blog

R. Kelly Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking

This sentencing follows the multiplatinum R&B artist's conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

Fight the New DrugJune 29, 2022

Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced to 20 Years for Child Trafficking Blog

Epstein Accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced to 20 Years for Child Trafficking

Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse and traffic underage girls.

Fight the New DrugJune 28, 2022

Japan Changes Age of Adulthood, Allows 18-Year-Olds to Perform in Porn with Legal Safeguards Blog

Japan Changes Age of Adulthood, Allows 18-Year-Olds to Perform in Porn with Legal Safeguards

Overnight, millions of young people in Japan became legal adults on April 1, 2022, as the government made a bid to revitalize its aging workforce.

Fight the New DrugJune 28, 2022

Sean’s Story: What It’s Like to Be a Male Survivor of Child Sexual Exploitation Blog

Sean’s Story: What It’s Like to Be a Male Survivor of Child Sexual Exploitation

"At seven years old or so, I was groomed with adult porn, then child sexual abuse images, and then I was used in it... Boys are abused,…

Fight the New DrugJune 28, 2022

How My Porn Habit Normalized Sexual Objectification Blog

How My Porn Habit Normalized Sexual Objectification

"For one thing, my brain has been rewired so much, everything in the world is sexualized. I am acutely aware of physical space and read into body…

Fight the New DrugJune 27, 2022

Can Using a VPN Keep Your Data Safe from Porn Sites? Blog

Can Using a VPN Keep Your Data Safe from Porn Sites?

Most consumers think that using a VPN is a foolproof way to prevent data collection and keep their porn preferences private. But is it really?

Fight the New DrugJune 21, 2022

How Porn Portrays Violence As a Sexual Fantasy Blog

How Porn Portrays Violence As a Sexual Fantasy

Not only does porn rarely depict consent, but it often portrays a lack of consent as normal and desirable—often at women's expense and dehumanization.

Fight the New DrugJune 21, 2022

“I Didn’t Know If They’d Kill Me”: What Happened When This Jane Doe was Trafficked by GirlsDoPorn Blog

“I Didn’t Know If They’d Kill Me”: What Happened When This Jane Doe was Trafficked by GirlsDoPorn

In an exclusive interview, Jane Doe told us her experience of what happened before, during, and after she was sex trafficked by GirlsDoPorn. This is her story.

Fight the New DrugJune 16, 2022

This Simple Rule Could Stop the Demand for Sexual Exploitation Blog

This Simple Rule Could Stop the Demand for Sexual Exploitation

It's a rule of kindness and respect: act in a way toward others that you'd like them to act toward you. Through this, exploitation could end.

Fight the New DrugJune 14, 2022

Women Who Regularly Watch Porn More Likely to Say They Learned “How to Be a Good Sexual Partner” from Porn Blog

Women Who Regularly Watch Porn More Likely to Say They Learned “How to Be a Good Sexual Partner” from Porn

This study found that young people report learning about sex from porn. Frequent female porn consumers are more likely to report learning about body aesthetics and "how…

Fight the New DrugJune 10, 2022

Porn Consumers More Likely to Dehumanize Women, Study Finds Blog

Porn Consumers More Likely to Dehumanize Women, Study Finds

Researchers found that pornography consumers are much more likely to dehumanize others, which is linked to sexually aggressive attitudes and behaviors.

Fight the New DrugJune 10, 2022