30% of the internet traffic is porn!!!! You might think 30% is not that much but it is! In 2018 the visits to Pornhub totalled 33.5 billion. That equates to a daily average of 92 million visitors and now in 2021 Pornhub’s daily visits exceed 100 million a day!! This is 30.3 billion searches, or 962 searches per second. Every minute, 63,992 new visitors arrive at Pornhub and this is just on Pornhub!1https://www.enough.org/stats_porn_industry
Porn has been marketed as a relationship enhancer, harmless personal entertainment, and a solid sexual education source! However, research shows that porn harms the brain, damages relationships, and negatively affects society as a whole. 2https://handinhandmentoring.org/pornography/
Porn influences what you like, what you expect from sex, what turns you on and how to think about the opposite or same sex.
Did you know that the root word of porn, porne, means “whore”, “prostitute”, “sexual slave without value”? 210 Myth about Porn: www.reality-check.nu/
This is quite a revealing definition!! It’s not a question of right or wrong but what is it really teaching us?
Porn is a product. Porn is something entirely different to natural and normal sex.
Professional porn actors have a whole team of people to make every detail look perfect. From directing and filming to lighting and makeup, maybe even a plastic surgeon or two to thank. With some careful editing, a typical 45-minute porn flick that took three days to shoot can appear to have happened all at once, without a break. Porn also makes it look like no matter what a man does, the woman likes it even though so many of the sex acts shown in porn are degrading, painful or violent. And this is just one of the countless lies that porn sells.
Testimonials from porn performers:
Regan Starr: “I couldn’t breathe. I was being hit and choked. I was really upset, and they didn’t stop. They kept filming. You can hear me say, ‘Turn the camera off’, and they kept going“.
Corina Taylor: “When I arrived to the set I expected to do a vaginal girl boy scene. But during the scene with a male porn star, he forced himself anally into me and would not stop. I yelled at him to stop and screamed ‘No’ over and over but he would not stop. The pain became too much and I was in shock and my body went limp.”
3https://www.collectiveshout.org/porn_stars_speak_out
In porn a lot of abuse is going on. Would you support a store that abused some, but not all, of their female employees? How can it be ethical to say that “porn is acceptable because participants give their consent,” when we know for a fact that some—probably much more than you think—do not?
- Porn is inseparably connected to sex trafficking: sex trafficking is 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”. Coercion means force and the moment a victim is forced or intimidated into a commercial sex act against their will sex trafficking has occurred. This does not have to be lifelong, but can occur at any given time or situation. The more people watch porn the more demand for sex trafficking exists.
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Porn .. its connection to violence– the vast majority of porn—violent or not—portrays men as powerful and in charge; while women are submissive and obedient. Watching scene after scene of de-humanising submission makes it start to seem normal. It sets the stage for one-sided power dynamics in couple relationships and the gradual acceptance of verbal and physical aggression against women. Research has confirmed that those who watch porn (even if it’s nonviolent) are more likely to support statements that promote abuse and sexual aggression towards women and girls.
As Internet porn grew more popular; it also turned darker, more graphic, and more extreme. Today hardcore porn involves scripts fusing sex with hatred and humiliation.
References:
- Let’s Talk About Porn. Is It As Harmless As Society Says It Is? https://fightthenewdrug.org/3-reasons-why-watching-porn-is-harmful/
- https://itstimewetalked.com/young-people/
- Gail Dines on Porn: TedEX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YpHNImNsx8
- Maree Crabbe, The Porn Factor: https://goforgreatness.org/the-porn-factor/
- https://fightthenewdrug.org/spooky-facts-about-porn/
