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Adult film performers would be required to use condoms in order for porn filmmakers to obtain Los Angeles city permits under a measure that AIDS activists hope to put on the city’s June 2012 ballot. The proponents must submit a petition with at least 41,138 qualifying signatures (15% of all votes cast in the last […]
Dawn Worswick, a survivor of trafficking herself, lays out the truth behind the porn industry. She shares cold-hard facts about the porn industry, the performers, the work conditions. She shares insight from performers themselves, many of whom are forced or pressured into the industry against their will with no way to get out. She also […]
Health officials say two male porn actors were HIV-positive when they had sex with Derrick Burts, an adult film performer whose HIV diagnosis in October caused several large production companies to suspend filming. The report indicated that adult film companies were stymieing the public health investigation into the HIV infection. “Limited cooperation from many adult […]
Introduction to Article: “Scott, a successful lawyer with a wife and two children, showed up at my office for his first session confused and angry about his relationship with pornography. He could see the damage his Internet porn habit was having on his marriage, health, and career, but he couldn’t stay away from it. His […]
Internet Pornography Use in the Context of External and Internal Religiosity (Research)
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Title: Internet Pornography Use in the Context of External and Internal Religiosity
Publication: Journal of Psychology and Theology, Vol. 38, No. 1
Author: Alina Baltazar, Herbert W. Helm, Jr., Duane Mcbride, Gary Hopkins, John V. Stevens, Jr.
Date: 03/15/2010
This study explored the extent of internet pornography use among men and women who were students at a conservative Christian university. A major goal of the study was to investigate if religiosity can act as a protective factor against the use of internet pornography. Large gender differences were found with males viewing pornography over three […]
Senate Committee Hearing: The Science Behind Pornography Addiction (Research)
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Title: Hearing: The Science Behind Pornography Addiction
Publication: The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Author: Judith Reisman
Date: 11/18/2004
Dr. Reisman is a specialist in the communication effects of images on the brain. She presented impressive results of some of her data indicating that pornographic images produce changes in neurochemistry which create intense emotional responses, including fear, shame, lust and/or violence and hostility. She calls these actual changes in brain structure and functioning “erototoxins,” […]
Mass Media Influences on Sexuality (Research)
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Title: Mass Media Influences on Sexuality
Publication: The Journal of Sex Research (Vol. 39, No. 1)
Author: Jane D. Brown
Date: 02/15/2007
The mainstream mass media (television, magazines, movies, music, and the Internet) provide increasingly frequent portrayals of sexuality. Often such media conveys that sex is consequence-free, rarely planned, and more a matter of lust than love, and rarely do they highlight the negative consequences of non-marital sex. Relatively little is known about how media content is […]
If Pornography Made Us Healthy, We Would Be Healthy By Now (Opinion)
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Title: If pornography made us healthy, we would be healthy by now
Publication: Catholic News Agency
Author: Mary Ann Layden
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“Erotica USA” arrives on April 15, 1999 and describes itself as “titillating but not nasty.” As a psychotherapist, this description is confusing. This show promotes of a number of psychiatric disorders and symptoms as if they are normal such as fetishes and sadomasochism. Are they trying to promote psychologically healthy relationships? Hardly! If pornography made […]