Which Companies Cash In the Most on Sexual Exploitation? The 2020 “Dirty Dozen” List Blog

Which Companies Cash In the Most on Sexual Exploitation? The 2020 “Dirty Dozen” List

Every year, our friends at NCOSE release their annual “Dirty Dozen List,” a who’s who list of leading contributors to sexual exploitation in the US. Here's 2020's round-up.

Fight the New DrugFebruary 6, 2020

“‘No’ Means ‘Try Harder'”: 5 Toxic Ideas That Porn Normalizes Blog

“‘No’ Means ‘Try Harder'”: 5 Toxic Ideas That Porn Normalizes

There are plenty of reasons why the porn industry promotes harmful messages, but would you expect capitalizing off of racism to be one of those reasons?

Fight the New DrugFebruary 6, 2020

What is Inspiring Teens to Try Strangulation During Sex? Blog

What is Inspiring Teens to Try Strangulation During Sex?

Among this study's respondents, 13% of sexually active girls ages 14-17 reported already having been strangled during sex. How is this okay?

Fight the New DrugFebruary 5, 2020

Why Getting Married Didn’t Make My Porn Obsession Go Away Blog

Why Getting Married Didn’t Make My Porn Obsession Go Away

"I couldn't hold down long-term relationships because I never knew how to properly have one. All my information about love was from the porn I watched."

Fight the New DrugFebruary 5, 2020

5 Essential Sex-Positive Traits that You Won’t Find in Porn Blog

5 Essential Sex-Positive Traits that You Won’t Find in Porn

Being sex-positive is essential to a healthy, loving relationship. And porn? Porn fits the definition of promoting unhealthy, sex-negative ideas and practices.

Fight the New DrugFebruary 4, 2020

What My Partner’s Obsession with Porn Taught Me About Our Marriage Blog

What My Partner’s Obsession with Porn Taught Me About Our Marriage

"I grabbed his phone to change the music he was playing. I could see it in his face straight away that there was something he didn’t want…

Fight the New DrugFebruary 3, 2020

Multiple Hotel Chains Sued for Allegedly Allowing Sex Trafficking in Their Facilities Blog

Multiple Hotel Chains Sued for Allegedly Allowing Sex Trafficking in Their Facilities

It’s safe to say that the porn industry is, at best, complicit in trafficking and, at worst, an active participant—possibly similarly to these hotel groups.

Fight the New DrugFebruary 2, 2020

Adam Savage From “Mythbusters” Explains Porn’s Harms to His Sons in This Genius Way Blog

Adam Savage From “Mythbusters” Explains Porn’s Harms to His Sons in This Genius Way

"If you could look into someone’s brain the way you search the internet, and the internet was a dude, that dude has a problem with women," Savage…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 30, 2020

How This Tech Startup Caught 25 Sex Traffickers and Rescued 50 Victims Last Year Blog

How This Tech Startup Caught 25 Sex Traffickers and Rescued 50 Victims Last Year

Every day, it seems like technology moves ahead by 10 years. Artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are terms we hear thrown around almost constantly, developments…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 29, 2020

How Porn Evolved with Tech to be More Accessible, Affordable, and Aggressive Blog

How Porn Evolved with Tech to be More Accessible, Affordable, and Aggressive

The days of sneaking around to snag a Playboy magazine or to peek at explicit pictures hidden in your big brother’s dresser are long gone. Since the…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 28, 2020

How Porn Inspired a 24-Year-Old Man to Strangle This Teen to Death Blog

How Porn Inspired a 24-Year-Old Man to Strangle This Teen to Death

James said previously tried strangling a partner after he saw it done in porn. In that moment, he decided to try strangling again, killing Hannah in the…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 28, 2020

Iowa Man Admits Porn Inspired Him to Expose Himself to a Woman in a Grocery Store Blog

Iowa Man Admits Porn Inspired Him to Expose Himself to a Woman in a Grocery Store

Instead of the sexual response he was expecting, he was charged with a crime. He admitted he had seen it done in a porn video and was…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 27, 2020

There’s No Room for “Casting Couch” Porn in a #MeToo World Blog

There’s No Room for “Casting Couch” Porn in a #MeToo World

Casting couch porn capitalizes on real-life abusive scenarios that many men and women—both in and out of the porn industry—deal with all the time.

Fight the New DrugJanuary 27, 2020

Miami Authorities and Hotels Crack Down on Trafficking Ahead of Super Bowl LIV Weekend Blog

Miami Authorities and Hotels Crack Down on Trafficking Ahead of Super Bowl LIV Weekend

The Associated Press also reports that authorities say Miami-Dade County ranks first in sex trafficking in Florida, which in turn ranks third in the nation.

Fight the New DrugJanuary 23, 2020

Hotels, Motels, and Transit: How Workers in These Industries are Cracking Down on Sex Trafficking Blog

Hotels, Motels, and Transit: How Workers in These Industries are Cracking Down on Sex Trafficking

Training employees to spot trafficking survivors is normally up to the individual company, two new California laws actually require transit, hotel, and motel employees to undergo human…

Fight the New DrugJanuary 22, 2020