Hi, Iโd like to introduce you to a field of study known as Sociology. Itโs basically the study of society. See, we understand that culture does in fact impact who we are as people, as much as we want to believe that we are in complete control of who we are, that is simply just not true.
Advertising companies wouldnโt spend make any money if advertising didnโt work. The human brain is like a sponge, constantly absorbing messages subconsciously. And an orgasm is a very powerful psychological conditioning tool. Porn use does in fact impact people.
Here, have some research:
There are over 420 million pages of pornographic material online worldwide. (IFR)
72 million searches for porn are logged monthly. (IFR)
25% of all daily search engine requests are for pornography (68 million searches daily) (IFR)
42.7% of internet users view porn (IFR)
100,000-plus websites are devoted to child pornography. There are over 116,000 daily requests for this material. (IFR)
20% of men admit to accessing pornography at work (IFR)
35% of those purchasing online porn make $75,000-plus annually. (IFR)
The United States is the top producer of pornographic web pages with 244,661,900, or 89 percent (IFR)
Worldwide revenue from mobile phone pornography is $1 billion-plus and growing (Bryan-Low, Cassel and Pringle, David. โSex Cells: Wireless Operators Find That Racy Cellphone Video Drives Surge in Broadband Use.โ The Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2005)
Ex-porn star testimonies:
Corina Taylor: โWhen 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 โNoโ over and over but he would not stop. The pain became too much and I was in shock and my body went limp.โ
Jenna Jameson: โMost girls get their first experience in gonzo films โ in which theyโre taken to a crappy studio apartment in Mission Hills and penetrated in every hole possible by some abusive asshole who thinks her name is Bitch.โ
Alexa James: โThe first shoot I did was with a man who was probably 40 and he was as thick as a soda can. He held me down and shoved it in me with no lube tearing my vagina. When I started to tear up and cry he flipped me over and continued from behind be so they wouldnโt get me crying on film. He pulled my hair and choked me over and over again even when I told him it hurt and I could barely breathe.โ
Linda Lovelace: โMy initiation into prostitution was a gang rape by five men, arranged by Mr. Traynor. It was the turning point in my life. He threatened to shoot me with the pistol if I didnโt go through with it. I had never experienced anal sex before and it ripped me apart. They treated me like an inflatable plastic doll, picking me up and moving me here and there. They spread my legs this way and that, shoving their things at me and into me, they were playing musical chairs with parts of my body. I have never been so frightened and disgraced and humiliated in my life. I felt like garbage. I engaged in sex acts for pornography against my will to avoid being killed.The lives of my family were threatened.โ
Andi Anderson: โAfter a year or so of that so-called โglamorousโ life, I sadly discovered that drugs and drinking were a part of the lifestyle. I began to drink and party out of control! Cocaine, alcohol and ecstasy were my favorites. Before long, I turned into a person I did not want to be. After doing so many hardcore scenes I couldnโt do it anymore. I just remember being in horrible situations and experiencing extreme depression and being alone and sad.โ
Alexa Milano: โMy first movie I was treated very rough by 3 guys. They pounded on me, gagged me with their penises, and tossed me around like I was a ball! I was sore, hurting and could barely walk. My insides burned and hurt so badly. I could barely pee and to try to have a bowel movement was out of the question. I was hurting so bad from the physical abuse from these 3 male porn stars.โ
Jessie Jewels: โPeople in the porn industry are numb to real life and are like zombies walking around. The abuse that goes on in this industry is completely ridiculous. The way these young ladies are treated is totally sick and brainwashing. I left due to the trauma I experienced even though I was there only a short time.โ
Genevieve: โI had bodily fluids all over my face that had to stay on my face for ten minutes. The abuse and degradation was rough. I sweated and was in deep pain. On top of the horrifying experience, my whole body ached, and I was irritable the whole day. The director didnโt really care how I felt; he only wanted to finish the video.โ
Jersey Jaxin: โGuys punching you in the face. You have semen from many guys all over your face, in your eyes. You get ripped. Your insides can come out of you. Itโs never ending.โ
Elizabeth Rollings: โI didnโt want to feel the pain of penetration from an over average sized man, being told to freeze in a position until the camera man was happy with his shots was very painful. I had peoples body fluids forced on my face or anywhere else the producer pleased and I had to accept it or else no pay. Sometimes you would get to a gig and the producer would change what the scene was supposed to be to something more intense and again if you didnโt like it, too bad, you did it or no pay.โ
Lucky Starr: โI was worried about my first anal scene for quite a few days โฆ then the big moment arrived. It REALLY hurt! I almost quit and said, โI canโt do thisโ. When it was all over, I was so happy and relieved I was able to do itโฆโ
Ashlyn Brooke: โI honestly felt that if I had to have another strange man in my face, his hands (God knows where theyโve been all over me) him calling me his baby and having to exude some sort of forged passion for the world to see, I probably would have exploded. And what would have been stuck to the walls would have probably been nothing, just pieces of skin, bone, the brain of a robot, and what would have been left of what would have existed once as a huge and warm heart.โ
Roxy: โAfter only 30 movies I caught two sexually transmitted diseases. Herpes, a non-curable disease and HPV, which led to cervical cancer where I had to have half of my cervix removed. Porn destroyed my life.โ
Anita Cannibal: โYeah, there are a lot of cover-ups going on. There is a lot of tragedy. There are a lot of horrible things.โ
Tamra Toryn: โAs for myself, I ended up paying the price from working in the porn industry. In 2006, not even 9 months in, I caught a moderate form of dysplasia of the cervix (which is a form of HPV, a sexually transmitted disease) and later that day, I also found out I was pregnant. I had only 1 choice which was to abort the baby during my first month. It was extremely painful emotionally and physically. When it was all over, I cried my eyes out.โ
Jessi Summers: โI also did a scene where I was put with male talent that was on my no list. I wanted to please them so I did it. He put his foot on my head and stepped on it while he was doing me from behind. I freaked out and started balling; they stopped filming and sent me home with reduced pay since they got some shot but not the whole sce
โteenโ is the most commonly searched porn term
child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online.
how pornographers feel about women:
โIโd like to really show what I believe the men want to see: violence against women. I firmly believe that we [pornographers] serve a purpose by showing that. The most violent we can get is the cum shot in the face. Men get off behind that, because they get even with the women they canโt have. We try to inundate the world with orgasms in the face.โ - ย Bill Margold, porn industry veteran, quoted in Robert J. Stoller and I. S. Levine, Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-rated video; 1993.
โThereโs nothing I love more than when a girl insists to me that she wonโt take a cock in her ass, because โ oh yes she will!โ -Max Hardcore, interviewed in Hustler (June 1995).
โMy whole reason for being in this Industry is to satisfy the desire of the men in the world who basically donโt much care for women and want to see the men in my Industry getting even with the women they couldnโt have when they were growing up. I strongly believe thisโฆ so we come on a womanโs face or somewhat brutalize her sexually: weโre getting even for their lost dreams. I believe this. Iโve heard audiences cheer me when I do something foul on screen. When Iโve strangled a person or sodomized a person, or brutalized a person, the audience is cheering my action, and then when Iโve fulfilled my warped desire, the audience applauds.โ - Bill Margold, porn industry veteran and Free Speech Coalition board member.
โIt might promote violence against women in the United States, but I say, โGood.โ I hate those bitches. Theyโre out of line and thatโs one of the reasons I want to do this โฆ Iโm going through a divorce right now. โฆ I hate American women.โ - What pornographers really think of women (Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 14 October 1999)
2010 study on popular porn films:
88% of scenes contained physical aggression, including spanking, gagging, and slapping.
Women were overwhelmingly the targets of aggressive acts, and men the perpetrators.
Following instances of aggression towards women, in 95% of cases the women expressed pleasure or neutrality.
cases of porn leading children to commit sexual assualt IN THE UK ALONE:
February 2014: A 13-year-old boy told a UK court that he raped his 8-year-old sister after viewing pornography at his friendโs house. ย The teenager told police he โdecided to try it outโ on his sister because she was small and โcouldnโt remember stuff,โ reported the Lancashire Telegraph.
November 2013: A different 13-year old UK boy pleaded guilty to raping an eight-year old girlwhen he was 10. A pornography addiction since age 9 was said to have played a significant role in his crimes.
March 2013: Two boys aged 14 and 15 admitted to a British court that they were re-enacting scenes witnessed in violent online pornography when they beat, brutalized, then raped a 14-year-old girl they had tied to a chair.
March 2013: A UK report found that thousands of British children had committed sexual offenses. In all, 4,562 minors โ some as young as five โ committed 5,028 sexual offenses over a three year period from 2009-2012. Experts blamed โeasy access to sexual material.โ
January 2012: Childrenโs aid and sex abuse organizations in Australia largely blamed 414 cases of children sexually abusing other children on the explosion of pornography made accessible to children.
August 2012: A 13-year-old Canadian boy pleaded guilty to repeatedly raping a 4-year-old boy who lived in his foster home. The boy said the idea came from watching โgay pornโ on his foster parentsโ home computer.
April 2012: A child therapist reported a case of a 13-year-old boy who raped his 5-year-old sisterafter developing a โcomplex fantasy worldโ warped by โtwo years of constant porn use.โ
Latinos and Hispanics: Pornography tends to stereotype Hispanic women as feisty, โhot and spicy Latinasโ, sexy Seรฑoritas, with a high sex drive and low impulse control. Many are portrayed as maids, illegal immigrants to the United States, or unfaithful wives. Since Latinos and Hispanics can be of any race (many are white Hispanic Americans, Mestizos etc.), cultural characteristics are sometimes portrayed via iconic items like South and Central American national costumes, sombreros, maracas, or Mexican dresses.
Asian women: Are viewed as sexually willing or submissive. Asian men are hardly portrayed in pairing with white women and not as common compared to white men with asian women porn. Asian women are mainly portrayed as the: โDragon Ladiesโ, as servile โLotus Blossom Babiesโ, โInnocent School Girlsโ in private school uniforms, โChina dollsโ, โGeisha girlsโ, war brides, or prostitutes. Japanese media have also at times sensationalistically promoted the stereotype of Japanese women overseas as โyellow cabsโ.
Black performers: Large penis size in Black men is consistently emphasized in pornography, often by exclusively casting actors with larger than average penises such as Lexington Steele, Kid Bengala, Jack Napier and Mandingo. Men are often treated to stereotypes of gang affiliation, working class labor, and are overrepresented in gang rape fetish films. Also, they are represented as overly aggressive and demanding, and are performing with white women. Similarly, black women are often portrayed with large breast and buttocks, or โbootyโ. They normally play a submissive role while performing with a white male.
Kidโs access to pornography:
Youth who look at violent x-rated material are six times more likely to report forcing someone to do something sexual online or in-person versus youth not exposed to x-rated material. [12]
Middle-school aged boys who view X-rated content are almost three times more likely to report oral sex and sexual intercourse than boys who do not use sexually explicit material[13] ย
A study in the southeastern U.S. found that 53 percent of boys and 28 percent of girls (ages 12-15) reported use of sexually explicit media. The Internet was the most popular forum for viewing. [14]
The words โsexโ and โpornโ rank fourth and sixth among the top ten most popular search terms. [15]
Roughly two-thirds (67 percent) of young men and one-half (49 percent) of young women agree that viewing pornography is acceptable.[7]
Nearly 9 out of 10 (87 percent) young men and 1 out of 3 (31 percent) young women report using pornography.[8]
Experts have warned that the rise in the viewing of pornography was implicated in a variety of problems, including a rise in the levels of STDs and teenage pregnancies. ย Additionally, males aged between 12 and 17 who regularly viewed pornography had sex at an earlier stage in life and were more likely to initiate oral sex, apparently imitating what they had seen. [9] [10]
Internet pornography was blamed for a 20 percent increase in sexual attacks by children over three years.[6]
One out of three youth who viewed pornography, viewed the pornography intentionally.[1]
Seven out of ten youth have accidentally come across pornography online.[2]
Nearly 80 percent of unwanted exposure to pornography is taking place in the home (79 percent occurs in the home; 9 percent occurs at school; 7 percent other/unknown; 5 percent at a friendโs home).[3]
Kids experience unwanted exposure to sexual material via:[4] A link came up as a result of an innocent word search (40 percent), Clicking on a link in another site (17 percent), A pop-up (14 percent), Other (13 percent), Misspelled web address (12 percent), Donโt know (4 percent), Pictures involving animals or other strange things (10 percent)
Type of material youth encounter when unwanted exposure to pornography occurs:[5] Naked people (86 percent), People having sex (37 percent), Violent pictures (13 percent)
Nearly 74 percent of pornography websites surveyed display adult content on their homepage (accessible to anyone) before asking if the viewers are of legal age. [11]
American children begin consuming hardcore pronography at an average age of 11
Four out of five 16 year-olds regularly access pornography online
Findings from the Youth Internet Safety Survey indicate that 15% of 12-17 year olds have purposefully looked at x-rated material online.
Data from the PEW Internet and American Life Project suggest that 70% of 15-17 year old internet users accidently view pornography โveryโ or โSomewhatโ often.
Child pornography is a $3-billion industry. (Top Ten Reviews)
Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online, and the content is becoming much worse. ย (Internet Watch Foundation) ย Internet Watch Foundation confirmed 1536 child abuse domains in 2008.
The fastest growing demand in commercial websites for child abuse is for images depicting the worst type of abuse, including penetrative sexual activity involving children and adults and sadism or penetration by an animal. ย 58% of child sexual abuse images depict this level of abuse. (IWF, 2008)
69% of all victims in child abuse images are between the ages of 0 and 10 years old. (IWF, 2008)
In a study of arrested child pornography possessors, 40 percent had both sexually victimized children and were in possession of child pornography. Of those arrested between 2000 and 2001, 83 percent had images involving children between the ages 6 and 12; 39 percent had images of children between ages 3 and 5; and 19% had images of infants and toddlers under age 3 (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Child Pornography Possessors Arrested in Internet-Related Crimes: Findings fro the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study. 2005).
further decline in dopamine levels
further decline in opioids and endorphins
drop-off in GABA, which is an anti-anxiety neurotransmitter
rise in brain stress hormones CRF and norepinephrine
elevated dynorphin which inhibits dopamine and lowers your pleasure response
one week after quitting the reward center sprouts new nerve cell branches, which correlate with cravings to use
More sources on addiction to porn
Common porn addiction withdrawal symptoms include:
Loss of libido (Can take days to manifest, and last a long time)
Adult (>18 years old) exposure to pornographic media is connected with:
Believing a rape victim enjoyed rape
Believing women suffer less from rape
Believing women in general enjoy rape
Believing a rape victim experienced pleasure and โgot what she wantedโ
Believing women make false accusations of rape
Believing rapist deserve less jail time
More acceptance of the rape myth
More acceptance of violence against women
More likely to go to a prostitute and to go more frequently
Increasing their estimates of how often people engage in sex with violence
More self-reported likelihood of forcing a women sexually
More self-reported likelihood of rape
Creating more sexually violent fantasies to get aroused
Engaging in more sexual harassment behaviors
More likelihood of forcing a woman sexually
More likelihood of future rape
Using physical coercion to have sex
Using verbal coercion to have sex
Using drugs and alcohol to sexually coerce women
Having engaged in date rape
Having engaged in marital rape
Being an adult sex offender
Engaging in sexual abuse of a battered spouse
More willingness to have sex with 13-14 year olds
More sexual attraction to children
Having sexually abused children
Life and death of a porn star:
all the women who donโt make money from the porn industry.
the women who are kidnapped, tortured, and forced into snuff films.
the skeletons that NAFTA keeps hidden in cobweb-ridden closets on the U.S.-Mexican border.
their average career length is 3 months. [x] [x]
If you donโt feel like reading:
Shelley Lubben: Porn as a driver for prostitution and sex trafficking, (Vimeo)
Cindy Gallop: Make love, not porn (Adult content)
โThey call it fantasy,โ - Andrea Dworkin
Ex-Pornstar Jan Villarubia tells her story
Dr. Gail Dines addressing porn culture and rape cultureโs intersecting roles in patriarchy
โTwo Ex-Porn Stars Uncover The Truth About Porn.โ
This guy stopped watching porn โ and he wants you to know why.
Facing Life Head-On: Satanโs Final Frontierโthe Sex Industry
Dr. Gail Dineโs lectures on pornography on youtube (1, 2, 3, 4)
This video has footage the porn industry doesnโt want you to see. Women are abused, screaming, crying, raped and in pain on the porn setโฆNo woman should have to go to work only to return home beaten and traumatized.โ
On the show Date My Pornstar, porn fans get to interact and converse with their favorite pornstars about their experiences in the industry
The story of ex-pornstar โSalโ, (Pink Cross Foundation)
Porn actress Sierra Sinn Leaves Porn
On the Joni talk show, ex-porn actresses come forward to share their experiences on what drove them into the porn industry, how it impacted their lives and what drove them out.
Here is a site that has testimonies from lots of porn stars. The site is run by an ex pornstar who has dedicated her life to helping the women in the industry.
Here is an article about Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, basically the first pornography film, talking about how the film was her being raped, and the other atrocities she went through in the porn industry.
Here is a video of a talk show where three porn actresses speak out against the industry and tell their stories. I can assure you, these are not extreme cases. This is the average life of porn stars.
Here has great information on the porn industry, and if you scroll down to Porn and the Performer, you can read statistics about the porn industry and porn actresses and what they suffer through.
Here is some facts about porn from Shelley Lubbens website.
How porn harms the economy
How porn harms relationships
Stop Porn Cultureโs FAQ
400+ dead porn stars obituaries
more databases on dead porn stars
Shelley Lubben.com (Ex porn-star helping other porn stars)
Shelley Lubbenโs MySpace Website
List of Dead Porn Stars and How They Died
Where My Ladies At (About porn and itโs connection to hip hop and rap.)
Feminist Fred: A Place for Men to Learn about Feminism (Also home of Pornsick Pat)
Internet Pornography Statistics (InternetFilterReview.com)
Porn and Sex Industry Statistics (Enough is Enough.)
Pornography and Sex Trade Statistics (Most thorough and documented.)
PBS Documentary โPorn In Americaโ. Full video and lots of information.
XXX Family Values: ABC Primetime Show about Porn Star Sunny Lane. (Sunnyโs parents are her managers. Transcript and video clip at link.)
ABC Primetime Interview with Porn Star Belladonn (Tells the harsh truth about porn.)
Porn Profits: Corporate Americaโs Secret (ABC Primetime Show.)
Anti-Pornography and Prostitution Research Group (Japan)
Pornography: Creating Demand for International Sex Trafficking (By Shared Hope International)
And also, have some testimonials from previous porn stars:
