How to Talk about Porn with Your 11-Year-Old Son

Marnia Robinson and Gary Wilson have kindly given us permission to reprint their advice to parents of boys on the threshold of being teenagers. Marnia and Gary run the website Reuniting: Healing with Sexual Relationships.Is There a Problem with Porn?by Marnia Robinson and Gary WilsonSuppose you’re really hungry, but it’s almost time to leave for your […]

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Marriage is Undersold in America

Most high school seniors value “having a good marriage and family life”, but for many, this does not become their reality. The odds can be improved by making the benefits of marriage more widely known, and by making more of an effort to share knowledge about how quality intimate relationships work. David Popenoe writes for […]

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Fantasizing About an Action Trains the Brain Almost the Same as Doing It

Porn defenders commonly characterize it as ‘harmless fantasy’. Few viewers, they say, will act it out in the real world. Unfortunately, research on learning suggests this assumption is risky. Visualizing an action is close in training power to actually performing the action. Learning from porn is also reinforced by the pleasure of orgasm. This article […]

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Survey: “Suicide attempts by teens linked with assault” (explicit language)

Some of our opponents try to deter us by claiming that porn is not important. Often they go on to suggest that we must be motivated by some hidden agenda, personal defect or boundary issues: Silkheat: “I am finding myself wondering why you focus on this issue when there are so many more important things […]

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The Impact of Internet Pornography on Marriage and the Family: A Review of the Research

Jill Manning is a Social Sciences Fellow in Domestic Policy for the Heritage Foundation. She testified about the impact of porn to the US Senate in November 2005 (transcript). She summarizes her findings: Since the advent of the Internet, the pornography industry has profited from an unprecedented proximity to the home, work and school environments. […]

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“Spousal Use of Pornography and Its Clinical Significance for Asian-American Women”

Eunjung Ryu published her research paper, “Spousal Use of Pornography and Its Clinical Significance for Asian-American Women: Koren Women as an Illustration”, in Journal of Feminist Family Therapy 2004 (Vol.16 No.4). The complete article is available from The Haworth Document Delivery Service. Ryu examines the impact of porn on sexual attitudes, relationships between couples, and […]

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Video Presentation: A Content Analysis of 50 of Today’s Top Selling Porn Films (explicit language)

A number of porn defenders claim that anti-porn activists harp on unusual, violent, women-hating examples of porn, and unfairly downplay the existence of ‘artistic’ porn on sites like Suicide Girls. anthonyjk_6319 believes that porn sites like “Gag on My Cock” and “Anal Suffering” are the “exception”, and that the “overwhelming majority of porn (something like […]

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Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn Confuses Young Men about How to Behave

Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.404-405). Testimony of Jackson Katz My name is Jackson Katz, and I’m the founder of a group called Real Men, which is an anti-sexist men’s group. The […]

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A New Category Debuts: Love and Beauty

There is so much that’s wrong with today’s porn that it’s easy for anti-porn activists to be in a bad mood most of the time. As Andrea Dworkin freely admitted, “I represent the morbid side of the women’s movement.” The public sees the anger and frustration, and many turn instead to the porn industry, which […]

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Chyng Sun: Rejecting Porn’s Hatred of Women Does Not Mean Embracing Government Repression of “Obscenity”

Dr. Chyng Feng Sun teaches media studies at New York University. Dr. Sun received her Ph.D. in communication at U Mass-Amherst, specializing in media literacy. In this article for CounterPunch, she argues that the misogyny of porn deserves much criticism, but that government repression of “obscenity” is not the answer… It is typical that liberal-minded […]

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