7 Real Porn Performers Share What The Industry Is Really Like.

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Porn Has Lied to You About Consent.

A THREAD: 🧵 What is consent?

"Sexual consent" generally refers to a communicated, informed, mutual agreement to engage in sexual activity.

Real sexual consent can be revoked at any time.

Pornhub Blocked the State of Utah From Its Site

A Thread: 🧵 Pornhub and other adult sites controlled by its parent, MindGeek, began blocking visitors with Utah-based IP addresses this week.

We’re fact-checking 10 common arguments about porn.

THREAD: Common Argument: 1 “Porn actually decreases sexual violence.”

Some argue that porn has the potential to decrease sexual violence by providing a “healthy outlet” for people who would otherwise act out in sexually harmful ways, but research shows that this simply isn’t the case.

Tips to quit porn

A THREAD: 🧵 If you're reading this, we're challenging you to give up porn for the year of 2023!⁠
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Know that you don’t have to do this alone—we’ve got your back.

Here are a few key tips to quit porn. 🙌

Fact-checking 10 common arguments about porn: Common Argument: 1 “Porn actually decreases sexual violence.”

Some argue that porn has the potential to decrease sexual violence by providing a “healthy outlet” for people who would otherwise act out in sexually harmful ways, but research shows that this simply isn’t the case.

8 fast facts about porn: According to a nationally representative survey of U.S. teens, 84.4% of 14 to 18-year-old males and 57% of 14 to 18-year-old females have viewed pornography.

(Wright, Paul, & Herbenick, 2021)

How Porn Promotes Sexual Violence: Researchers who have analyzed the content of videos on popular porn sites have found that 35% to 88% of porn videos depict sexual violence or aggression.

That means that even by the lowest estimates, more than 1 in 3 porn videos shows sexual violence or aggression.

What's Going On with Pornhub?

A Simplified Timeline of Events 2022: Since December 2020, there's been a lot going on with one of the world's largest porn sites, Pornhub, owned by the world's largest porn company, MindGeek.

More recently, here are the events in 2022 that led up to Instagram removing Pornhub's account on September 3rd.

How to talk about porn: Whether you’re planning on disclosing your own porn habit, setting healthy boundaries surrounding porn in your relationship, or just wanting to start a general conversation about porn, here are a few key tips that will help you navigate the conversation successfully

How Ethical is Ethical Porn? Many people argue in favor of ethical porn that allegedly guarantees performers’ consent, fair pay, and enjoyment. But is ethical porn really exploitation-free?

Let’s discuss.

Stop watching porn. It’s estimated that about 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women consume pornography—that’s a pretty large majority.

Don’t you think it’s time we talk about how pornography actually affects consumers?

(Solano, Eaton, & O'Leary, 2020)

“What happens with [many] survivors of child sexual abuse…is they internalize the traumatic experience, and because of the shame and stigma that’s associated with it, they often deal with it on their own.” -Chris Yadon: Managing Director of Saprea

ftnd.org/CBC74 In this episode of Consider Before Consuming, we talk with Chris Yadon, the Managing Director of Saprea.

Saprea is an organization that exists to liberate individuals and society from child sexual abuse and its lasting impacts.

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Actor and Activist Marisol Nichols Talks About Fighting Child Sex Trafficking

You may know @marisolnichols from the critically-acclaimed hit television series Riverdale.

To some, the Chicago native is an actress, but to others she’s a hero. After learning about the rampant issue of human trafficking, Marisol has worked with law enforcement and state and federal legislators for over a decade to help catch child sexual predators and human traffickers by going undercover.

Combating Child Sexual Exploitation Material
(aka “child pornography”)

A Thread: 🧵 In order to combat the exponentially-growing issue of child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) on the internet, it’s important to be educated on its prevalence and be aware of the conditions that may fuel it—including the culture children are growing up in.

How porn and sex trafficking are connected.

A Thread: 🧵 Sex trafficking is legally defined as a situation in which “a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.”

(TVPA, 2000)

Child Porn On Pornhub? Did you know there has reportedly been child exploitation on Pornhub?

@NickKristof is an American journalist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and columnist for the New York Times since 2001.

8 Tips to quit porn.

A THREAD: 🧵 Even after recognizing that their porn habit has become problematic, many people still have difficulty quitting porn.

If you’re trying to quit, know that you don’t have to do this alone—we’ve got your back.

Here are a few key #TipsToQuit porn.

8 Things You Should Know About Child Sexual Abuse. 1. More than 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 20 boys are sexually abused or assaulted before they turn 18, according to an analysis of national surveys in the U.S.

Finkelhor, Shattuck, Turner, & Hamby, 2014