Category: Pornography

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 wildly unrealistic and toxic porn can be.

New year, same struggle? Science explains why quitting porn is difficult—and what can actually help people make real change this year.

Porn is, at best, heartbreaking and, at worst, downright destructive to relationships.

Does pornography warp the minds of the men who watch it? Does it “rewire” the brain? According to a fashionable orthodoxy among journalists — whose favourite mode of assessment, as ever, is panic — the answer is so obvious as to not require much supporting evidence.

United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said in a 1964 opinion that he could not define pornography but “I know it when I see it.” Perhaps such a sentiment was permissible then, when pornography was mostly still photos of naked women or graphic descriptions of sex in novels or comic books.

The U.S. won a key vote against child pornography and pedophilia in the General Assembly’s Third Committee today. Sixty-eight nations sided with the United States and against the European Union in insisting that all forms of child pornography, including virtual child pornography and sexting must be prosecuted. The Trump administration said this was in line with an international treaty against child pornography launched by the U.S. government over thirty years ago.

Early on, when Fight the New Drug was barely an idea—before the videos, before the website, before millions of Fighters around the world—I sat in a meeting that almost changed everything. Back then, we were just a few young creative entrepreneurs with conviction and a dream. No track record. No funding. No proof anyone would care. Just a belief that connection, real love, and a world without the harmful impacts of porn were worth fighting for.