Pornography (often abbreviated porn) is sexually explicit material that aims to arouse people who are looking at it.
Source: RaisingChildren
Chanel Contos sexual consent activist:
“It is a fundamentally anti-feminist act to watch porn because there is no way to tell the difference between consensual porn and non-consensual porn.”
“Learning how to have sex from watching pornography, it’s like learning how to drive by watching Formula One. The world would be a very dangerous place for drivers if this was the case, and anecdotes I hear daily reflect the treacherous landscape to girls and women when pornography is used to sex education”
“Choking has become increasingly prevalent in young men’s sexual behaviour, including in young men who do not have a violent bone in their body.”
“It is difficult to truly understand the true societal effects of pornography, as researchers and scientists have failed to find a control group of men who have never watched.”
“At what point does the mass consumption of pornography particularly among youth, become a mass form of grooming that normalises sexual violence?”
- Chanel Contos
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GENERAL INFO
Kids Helpline: Let's get real about porn
Kids Helpline: Impacts of Pornography
Fight The New Drug: Huge Meta-Analysis Reveals Male Porn Consumers Are Less Satisfied with Relationships
WCHH: Pornography and its impact on the sexual health of men
Catholic Counsselors: New Research Describes The Negative Effects That Men Who Frequently Watch Porn Experience
Relationships: Effects of pornography on relationships
Fight The New Drug: 3 Reasons Why Healthy Relationships and Porn Don’t Mix
Mental Help: How Pornography Distorts Intimate Relationships
SELF-HELP
ESE: 5 Tips to overcome compulsive pornography use
Very Well Mind: How to stop watching porn
Choosing therapy: How to stop watching porn
Men's Group: HOW TO STOP WATCHING PORN: 5 STEPS MEN CAN TAKE TO STOP WATCHING PORN
Healthline: Everything You Need to Know About Pornography 'Addiction'
FORUMS, TOOLS & VIDEOS
HeadSpace: Group chat
YouTube: The Danger of Porn for Your Relationship
YouTube: Why Pornography Destroys Relationships | Jordan Peterson
YouTube: How Porn Ruined My Intimacy | "MEN THIS WAY" Podcast
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Raising Children: Pornography talking with teens
Esafety: The hard to have conversations
Psych Central: Your teen and porn
Understanding Boys: Talking to teenage boys about porn