Over 100 quick stats and findings from an ever-growing body of research that details the effects of porn for individuals, relationships, and society.
If a porn performer is tricked, manipulated, or coerced during the production of porn, that is legally defined as sex trafficking.
Studies show that people who consume porn frequently are more likely to support sexual violence.
Researchers have found that representations of step-relationships in porn titles were actually less common than depictions of blood relationships, with the majority of incest-themed titles describing sexual activity between immediate family members.
Qualitative research reveals that young women often feel pressured to play out the “scripts” their male partners had learned from porn —they feel badgered into having sex in uncomfortable positions, faking sexual responses, and consenting to unpleasant or painful acts.
1 in 12 U.S. adults report that they have been victims of image-based abuse —sometimes called “revenge porn—and 1 in 20 report that they have been perpetrators of image-based abuse.
Findings of a qualitative study indicated that teens often reported trying to copy porn in their own sexual encounters, and that the pressure to imitate porn was often an aspect of unhealthy relationships.
Sex trafficking is a commercial sex act that is brought about by force, fraud, or coercion, or where someone under 18 is involved.
Research suggests that frequent porn consumers are more likely to victim-blame survivors of sexual violence.
According to studies analyzing the content of popular porn videos, at least 1 in 3 and as many as 9 in 10 porn videos depict sexual violence or aggression.
Research shows that women are almost always the targets of violence or aggression in porn —about 97% of the time.
According to an analysis of over 130,000 porn titles, “teen” is the most common word used in porn titles.
Of domestic minor trafficking victims who had been forced into porn production, the average age they began being filmed was 12.8 years old.
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