I didn’t have much contact with pornography when I was growing up. We lived in the mountains and didn’t even own a television or a video player. I saw my first Penthouse when I was ten, looking through my father’s closet for a fishing pole. It was a turn-on, for sure, but it also bothered […]

Let’s begin by meeting Jack. He is twenty-seven years old and manages a sporting goods store. Jack experimented with pornography when he was a teenager growing up in a small, rural community. Jack used porn pretty regularly for a year or two, but his relationship with it cooled when he went to college and became […]

M ost of us don’t think of having a “relationship” with porn, but if we use it regularly, that is what it becomes. We may not place a personal ad that reads, “In search of someone unreal who can meet my every sexual desire whenever and wherever without asking for anything in return,” but that’s […]

Another reason many young people develop an ongoing involvement with porn is that they discover it can help them escape from the stress of their daily lives. Like reading, television, and video games, pornography can beam us out of our own life and into one where we don’t have boring homework, a mom nagging us […]

When you’re between the ages of eight and eighteen, one of the worst things in your own mind is to be considered “weird” or “different.” We all want to fit in and feel “normal.” When puberty kicks in, many of us think something is very wrong with us, especially if we don’t have the guidance […]

For many of us, porn provided a way to bond with other kids or mem­bers of our family. In our research, we heard numerous stories from people who shared, traded, stole, and watched pornography with their friends or siblings. As you might guess, usually the groups were either all boys or all girls. Like Brad, […]

The average size of a man’s erect penis is 5.8 inches long. The average size of a male porn star’s erect penis is 8 inches long. 85% of female porn stars have breast implants. 100% of the pictures of porn centerfolds have been enhanced. Porn stars frequently undergo hair removal, genital cosmetic surgery, and liposuction […]

Kids are naturally curious about how sex works, what a naked body looks like, and what goes where. By the time we become teenagers, our raging hormones kick in and we don’t just want to know, we need to know, and we need to know now! Unfortunately, the level of sex education in most schools […]

While some people told us that they became “hooked” on porn from the moment they first saw it, no matter how young they were, most de­scribed moving in and out of an involvement with porn depending on their needs at the time and the circumstances of their lives. No matter whether you grew up in […]

Remember how Brad and his brother rushed home to tell their mom about being shown the Penthouse magazine by the two hippies at the playground? Brad had many questions for her about what he had just seen, but instead of remaining calm and providing information, she “just flipped” and ran down to the playground in […]