How Porn Fuels Sex Trafficking

Skeptics of pornography’s danger point out that porn has been around a long time. After all, the ancient Greeks painted sexual images on their pottery. But comparing paintings on Greek vases to today’s endless stream of live-action, hardcore videos is like comparing...

How Porn Fuels Sex Trafficking

Trigger warning: Many readers may find the accounts in this article to be graphic and/or disturbing. In a worldview of slavery, society generally agrees that it is inhumane and degrading, and most people are astonished that there have been times in history where...

How Porn Can Harm Families

One person’s porn habit can hurt a whole family, even if it’s kept a secret—perhaps especially if it’s kept a secret. Research has shown that porn undermines the trust, respect, love, communication, and happiness that are at the core of a healthy family. Last summer,...

The Porn Industry’s Dark Secrets

Would you support a business if you knew that they abused some (but not all) of their female employees? Pornographers don’t want you to think about it, but even if some of the humiliation, degradation, and sexual violence you see in porn is consensual, some is not....

Porn’s Harm Is Changing Fast

Skeptics of pornography’s danger point out that porn has been around a long time. After all, the ancient Greeks painted sexual images on their pottery. But comparing paintings on Greek vases to today’s endless stream of live-action, hardcore videos is like comparing...

How Watching Porn Can Lead to Violence

It’s no secret that much of porn is violent, but many people don’t understand the extent to which porn’s underlying messages influence behavior. Porn is packed full of women being disrespected,  coerced, and physically and verbally abused, and that’s shaping how...