Think porn isn’t affecting you? Science says otherwise. Discover how your screen habits might be impacting your sex life, relationships, society—and your brain.

Have you tried giving up porn for a month? Not for your partner, not as a joke, but really try it for yourself and see what happens.

You may have seen an alarming claim circulating online: “The Supreme Court just ruled that AI child pornography is legal in the United States.” No, that isn’t what happened. First, the Supreme Court did not issue the ruling a federal appeals court did second, the court did not broadly legalize AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), either. Instead, it upheld the dismissal of one possession charge against one defendant under the specific facts of one case.

Philip Larkin joked in his poem “Annus Mirabilis”—an ironical reflection on the sexual revolution—that “Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three . . . / Between the end of the Chatterley ban / And the Beatles’ first LP.”

Feminists are usually not the ones objecting to porn. Many progressive women tolerate it, or even defend it, not wanting to be seen as prudish or old-fashioned. Often, the women who object are conservative and religious. Porn seems to put more of a strain on their marriages too. Among religious couples, the IFS report notes, porn use has been associated with higher rates of marital dissatisfaction and divorce.

Two UK cases reveal how OnlyFans can be weaponized for coercion, nonconsensual content, financial exploitation, and sexual abuse.

From social feeds and thirst traps to explicit creators and porn sites, how algorithms are facilitating porn exposure.