National Center on Sexual Exploitation (website)

Stop Trafficking Demand (website) on the links between porn and prostitution

Stop Porn Culture (website)

Global Centurion: Fighting Modern Day Slavery by Focusing on Demand (website)

Fight the New Drug (website)

Culture Reframed (website)

Time Magazine Interactive, Addiction and the Brain. Time Magazine

Dolf Zillman, Inlfuence of Unrestrained Access to Erotica on Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Dispositions Towards Sexuality. Journal of Adolescent Health, Aug 2000.

“Because consensually accepted programs of sexual education are lacking, erotica have come to serve as the primary agent of sexual socialization. The new media technology gives prepubertal children and postpubertal adolescents ready access to erotica in all their manifestations. However, next to nothing is known about the consequences of the steadily increasing amount of such exposure. A brief overview of what is known and what remains unknown about the effects of pornography on young adults is presented. Thereafter, the focus is on the development of sexual callousness across the pubertal threshold, and on how this callousness might be influenced by extensive exposure to erotica. The erotica under consideration are not so much those explicitly depicting coital behaviors as those that are less explicit and present a fuller social context of sexual engagements. A program of research is outlined that would help provide an understanding of erotica’s effects on adolescents’ sexual callousness, an understanding that is sorely needed for the construction of effective educational efforts aiming at the removal of callousness and coercion from sexual relations.”

Vanessa Grigoriadis, The New Position on Casual Sex. New Yorker Magazine, Jan 13, 2003.

David Amsden, Not Tonight, Honey. I'm Logging On. New Yorker Magazine, Oct 20, 2003.

David Bentley Hart, The Pornography Culture, The New Atlantis, Summer 2004.

Pamela Paul, Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families. St. Martin’s Griffin | Amazon page, Aug 2006.

Michael D. Lemonick, How We Get Addicted. Time Magazine, Jul 5, 2007.

William M. Struthers, Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain. InterVarsity Press | Amazon page, 2009.

Richard Abowitz, Rob Black, Porn’?s Dirty Whistlebower, Spills Trade Secrets. Daily Beast, Apr 21, 2013.

Mark Heisler, Role Models for the Id. Truthdig, Apr 25, 2010.

Julie Bindel, The Truth About the Porn Industry. The Guardian UK, Jul 2, 2010.

Gail Dines, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. Beacon Press | Amazon page, Apr 2011.

Gary Wilson, The Great Porn Experiment. TEDxGlasgow, May 16, 2012.

Naomi Wolf, The Porn Myth. New Yorker Magazine, Feb 6, 2013.

Economist, Why Does Liberal Iceland Want to Ban Online Pornography?  The Economist, Apr 23, 2013.

Martin Daubney, Experiment Convinced Me that Online Porn is the Most Pernicious Threat Facing Children Today. Daily Mail UK, Sep 25, 2013.

Leonardo Blair, Ex Porn Star Vanessa Belmond Confesses Horrors of Seductive Porn Industry; Brings Porn-Loving Men Close to Tears With Story. Christian Post, Oct 23, 2013.

Mary Pulido, Child Porn: Basic Facts About a Horrific Crime. Huffington Post, Oct 17, 2013.

Ron Gavrieli, Why I Stopped Watching Porn. TEDx Talk, Oct 26, 2013. Notes that porn is about male dominance, and is filmed prostitution.

Danica Kirka and Jim Gomez, Operation Endeavor: Authorities Dismantle International Pedophile Ring That Live-Streamed Sex Abuse. Huffington Post, Jan 16, 2014.

Gregory Ciotti, Is Your Brain Truly Ready for Junk Food, Porn, or the Internet? Sparring Mind blog.

Rick Thomas, Five Sure Fire Ways to Motivate Your Son to Use Pornography. The Gospel Coalition, Feb 13, 2014.

Rachel Shteir, When Pornography Pays for College: The Trouble with Belle Knox. Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug 4, 2014.

Carl R. Trueman, The Purpose of Pornography. First Things, Aug 5, 2014.

Daisy J Mechelmans, Michael Irvine, Paula Banca, Laura Porter, Simon Mitchell, Tom B. Mole, Tatyana R Lapa, Neil A. Harrison, Marc N. Potenza, Valerie Voon, Enhanced Attentional Bias towards Sexually Explicit Cues in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours. PLOS One, Aug 25, 2014.

“Compulsive sexual behaviour (CSB) is relatively common and has been associated with significant distress and psychosocial impairments. CSB has been conceptualized as either an impulse control disorder or a non-substance ‘behavioural’ addiction. Substance use disorders are commonly associated with attentional biases to drug cues which are believed to reflect processes of incentive salience. Here we assess male CSB subjects compared to age-matched male healthy controls using a dot probe task to assess attentional bias to sexually explicit cues. We show that compared to healthy volunteers, CSB subjects have enhanced attentional bias to explicit cues but not neutral cues particularly for early stimuli latency. Our findings suggest enhanced attentional bias to explicit cues possibly related to an early orienting attentional response. This finding dovetails with our recent observation that sexually explicit videos were associated with greater activity in a neural network similar to that observed in drug-cue-reactivity studies. Greater desire or wanting rather than liking was further associated with activity in this neural network. These studies together provide support for an incentive motivation theory of addiction underlying the aberrant response towards sexual cues in CSB.”

The Young Turks, Do These Porn Watching Habits Surprise You? The Young Turks, Oct 2, 2014. Re: women choosing more often to watch lesbian, gay, and teen porn; men choosing teen, milf, mature

Luke Geraty, An Open Letter to My Porn-Watching Dad. Faithit, date unknown.

Robert Ferdman, Americans Aren’t Getting Married, and Researchers Think Porn Is Part of the Problem. Washington Post, Dec 21, 2014.

FaithIt, This Is How Porn Got a Huge Jumpstart in the World—I Had No Idea. FaithIt, date unknown.

Matt Fradd, Neuroscience Has Proved That Porn is Literally Making Men's Brains More Childish. LifeSite News, Jan 14, 2015.

Fight the New Drug, The Internet's Most Popular Genre of Porn is Disturbing. Fight the New Drug, Jan 27, 2015.

John-Henry Westen, Want to Stop Sex-Trafficking? Look to America's Porn Addition. Huffington Post, Jan 28, 2015.

Fight the New Drug, Companies That Profit Off Porn: This Year's Dirty Dozen. Fight the New Drug, Jan 30, 2015.

John Jalsevac, Even the Co-Stars Think "Fifty Shades of Gray" Is Awful (and Maybe Even a Bit Like Hitler). Lifesite News, Feb 11, 2015.

Gary Wilson, Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction. Commonwealth Publishing | Amazon page, Feb 2015.

Rescue: Freedom, How Clicking Porn Directly Fuels the Sex Trafficking Industry. Fight the New Drug, Mar 2, 2015. A 5 minute video.

Audrey Assad, For Women on Porn Addiction. The Porn Effect website.

10 Popular Ex-Porn Stars Share The Raw Reality Behind Their Most Popular Scenes. Fight the New Drug, May 26, 2015.

Alyssa Rosenberg, The Uber-ization of Porn. Washington Post, May 29, 2015.

Fight the New Drug, The New Epidemic: 2016's Global Porn Problem. Fight the New Drug, Jul 22, 2015.

Matt Fradd, 4 Ways Porn Warps the Male Brain. Covenant Eyes, Jul 31, 2015.

Dan Gray, The Serious Mental Costs of Watching Porn. Fight the New Drug, Oct 16, 2015.

David Vine, 'My Body Was Not Mine, But the U.S. Military's'. Politico, Nov 1, 2015.  Inside the disturbing sex industry thriving around America's bases

Kassondra Cloos and Julie Turkewitz, Hundreds of Nude Photos Jolt School. New York Times, Nov 6, 2015.

Fight the New Drug, Ex-Porn Star Explains Her Past to Newborn Son in This Beautifully Heartfelt Letter. Fight the New Drug, Nov 19, 2015.

Charles Camosy, On Pornography, U.S. Catholic Bishops May Find an Unlikely Ally. Religion News Service, Nov 20, 2015.

Jonathon Van Maren, Fancy That. Noam Chomsky Was Right About Porn. LifeSite News, Dec 21, 2015.

Paula Banca, Laurel S. Morris, Simon Mitchell, Neil A. Harrison, Marc N. Potenza, Valerie Voon, Novelty, Conditioning and Attentional Bias to Sexual Rewards. Journal of Psychiatric Research, Jan 2016. See short summary by Guest Author, Pornography Addiction: Seeking Novelty Until Desensitized. National Center on Sexual Exploitation, Nov 25, 2024.

The Internet provides a large source of novel and rewarding stimuli, particularly with respect to sexually explicit materials. Novelty-seeking and cue-conditioning are fundamental processes underlying preference and approach behaviors implicated in disorders of addiction. Here we examine these processes in individuals with compulsive sexual behaviors (CSB), hypothesizing a greater preference for sexual novelty and stimuli conditioned to sexual rewards relative to healthy volunteers. Twenty-two CSB males and forty age-matched male volunteers were tested in two separate behavioral tasks focusing on preferences for novelty and conditioned stimuli… This study shows that CSB individuals have a dysfunctional enhanced preference for sexual novelty possibly mediated by greater cingulate habituation along with a generalized enhancement of conditioning to rewards. We further emphasize a dissociable role for cue-conditioning and novelty preference on the early attentional bias for sexual cues. These findings have wider relevance as the Internet provides a broad range of novel and potentially rewarding stimuli.

Nancy Jo Sales, Teen Girls and Social Media: A Story of "Secret Lives" and Misogyny. NPR, Feb 29, 2016.

Olga Khazan, Why Straight Men Gaze at Gay Women. The Atlantic, Mar 8, 2016.

Nicholas Kristof, Every Parent's Nightmare. New York Times, Mar 10, 2016.

Gail Dines, Is Porn Immoral? That Doesn't Matter: It's a Public Health Crisis. Washington Post, Apr 8, 2016.

Samuel D. James, See No Evil. First Things, Apr 27, 2016. Regarding porn addiction and how liberal culture fails because of its lack of a positive ethic of relational involvement.

Top Tenz, Top 10 Dirty Facts About Porn. Top Tenz, May 4, 2016. Psychological, neurological facts and industry stats

Lori Lowe, New Research Reveals How Porn Affects Relationships. Marriage Gems, May 5, 2016.

Fight the New Drug, How to Spot (and Rescue) a Sex Trafficking Victim. Fight the New Drug, Jun 21, 2016.

Judith Shulevitz, It’s O.K., Liberal Parents, You Can Freak Out About Porn. New York Times, Jul 16, 2016.

Bec Cranford-Smith, Progressive Evangelical Female's Story of Pornography and Sexual Addiction. Patheos, Sep 10, 2016.

Gail Dines, Why Porn Is a Public Health Crisis. Culture Reframed, Nov 28, 2016. And video of Gail Dines, Why Porn Is a Public Health Crisis. Culture Reframed, Feb 20, 2017. And Gail Dines, Extensive Research into the Harms of Pornography on Children and Young People. Culture Reframed, Jun 27, 2017.

Margaret Talbot, The Attorney Fighting Revenge Porn. The New Yorker, Dec 5, 2016.

Brooke Jarvis, Can We "Cure" the Men Who Pay for Sex? GQ, Feb 2, 2017. Attempts at rehabilitating men who pay for sex

Andrew Brown, The Danger of Porn Goes Beyond Sex - It Normalizes Unchecked Desire. The Guardian, Jul 17, 2017. Insightful, and exposes the weakness in secular leftist thought since there is no check on the desire.

Monica Gabriel Marshall, Divorce Lawyers Say This Is Why Marriages Are Falling Apart. Verily Magazine, Jul 28, 2017. “In an informal meeting survey in 2002, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers questioned 350 divorce attorneys and found that roughly 60 percent reported that internet porn played a significant role in the divorces, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half of such cases. It’s not just lawyers who are picking up on the trend. In 2005, Dr. Jill Manning, a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in sexual addiction, pornography, or betrayal trauma, brought her research on porn and its connection to divorce before the Senate. According to Manning’s research, 56 percent of divorce cases involve one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.”

Fight the New Drug, How Porn Fuels Sex Trafficking. Fight the New Drug, Aug 23, 2017.

Julie Bindel, My Work as a Prostitute Led Me to Oppose Decriminalization. BBC, Oct 2, 2017. In favor of criminalizing the sex customer.

Don Mahle, One Man's Journey: How I Stopped Watching Porn for 1 Year and Why I'm Not Going Back. Films for Action, Nov 13, 2017. “The surprising effects of a man's experiment with eliminating pornography from his life.”

The Young Turks, How AI Is Being Used To Create Fake Porn. The Young Turks, Jan 30, 2018.

Jeet Heer, The Triumph of Porn Over Social Conservatism. New Republic, Jan 17, 2018.

Maggie Jones, What Teenagers Are Learning from Online Porn. New York Times Magazine, Feb 7, 2018.

Makini Brice, Jeff Mason, Jonathan Oatis, Trump Signs Law to Punish Websites for Sex Trafficking. Reuters, Apr 11, 2018.

Scott Beauchamp, The Pornification of Everything. The American Conservative, Jun 7, 2018.

Andrew Dugan, More Americans Say Pornography is Morally Acceptable. Gallup, Jun 5, 2018. From 36% in 2017 to 43% in 2018.

Kaitlyn Tiffany, Pornhub Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand. Vox, Sep 14, 2018.

Sasha Savitsky, How Brittni De La Mora Left the Porn Industry for Relationship with God: 'I Didn't Want to Admit I Made a Mistake'. Fox News, Jan 4, 2019.

John and Julie Gottman, Renowned Relationship Therapists Drs. Julie and John Gottman Release "Open Letter on Porn". Fight the New Drug, Feb 19, 2019.

Isaac Chotiner, A Sociologist of Religion on Protestants, Porn, and the “Purity-Industrial Complex”. The New Yorker, May 3, 2019.

Fight the New Drug, 10 Ex-Porn Performers Reveal The Brutal Truth Behind Their Most Popular Scenes. Fight the New Drug, May 22, 2019.

Michael H. Keller and Gabriel J.X. Dance, The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong? New York Times, Sep 28, 2019. “Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology. Tech companies, the government and the authorities are no match.” “Children, some just 3 or 4 years old, being sexually abused and in some cases tortured.”

William Z. Nardi, Feminists Have Turned on Pornography. National Review, Oct 18, 2019. “Decades ago, one prominent activist identified porn as decadent and exploitative. That insight is now in short supply.”

W. James Antle III, Welcome To The Conservative Porn Wars. The American Conservative, Jan 15, 2020. “The Right is divided over the proper role of government and whether it should be used to pursue the common good.”

Saagar Enjeti, NYT's Pornhub Victory Shows Conservatism Is Irrelevant. Rising | The Hill, Dec 10, 2020. Refers to Nicholas Kristof, An Uplifting Update, on the Terrible World of Pornhub. New York Times, Dec 9, 2020. “Young heroes lead in confronting pornography companies that monetize rape and child abuse” and Nicholas Kristof, The Children of Pornhub. New York Times, Dec 3, 2020. “Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?” Enjeti argues that social conservatives have isolated themselves into grievance-oriented media bubbles and fail to speak to the country’s center-left culture, which speaks the language of harm and not religion, tradition, or sacredness. Co-host Krystal Ball suggests that libertarian economic conservatives and neoliberals reign in both the GOP and Dems, though.

Elle Stanger, The New York Post Outed A Paramedic As A Sex Worker. Here’s What They Didn’t Tell You. Huffington Post, Dec 19, 2020. “Women get harassed, stalked, even targeted for assault and murder when people question their sexual morality in a public and shaming manner.”

Amy Bond, When I Was Outed For My Porn Past, Pole Dancing Helped Me Heal. Huffington Post, Feb 1, 2021.

Frontline PBS, Sex Trafficking in America.  Frontline PBS, Mar 30, 2021.  A one hour documentary. Highlights the work of Arizona law enforcement officers pursuing pimps and buyers.  The process of prosecution highlights why it is imperative that trafficked women are not held to be offenders, but victims.

Christa Stamper, Sex (and Sobs) on the Set: Actresses Lay Bare Their Thoughts on Baring it All. American Thinker, May 21, 2021.

Sandra Amankaviciute, Helen Pringle, and Monika Zalnieriute, Freedom of Expression of Women in the Public Sphere: From Objectification to Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence. United Nations Office of the High Commissioner | Submission to the Thematic Report on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Gender Justice for the 76th session of the General Assembly, Jun 14, 2021.

Elizabeth Bruenig, Modern Porn Education Is Totally Unprepared for Modern Porn. The Atlantic, Jul 18, 2021. “Courses to train young people to be ethical consumers of porn have a hugely complex task ahead of them.”

Ron Dicker, Billie Eilish Says Porn Fixation Starting At Age 11 'Destroyed' Her Brain. Huffington Post, Dec 15, 2021.

Anna Moore, ‘I Have Moments of Shame I Can’t Control: The Lives Ruined by Explicit ‘Collector Culture.’ The Guardian, Jan 6, 2022. “The swapping, collating and posting of nude images of women without their consent is on the rise. But unlike revenge porn, it is not a crime. Now survivors are demanding a change in the law.”

TLDR News, The Surprising Company Who Secretly Controls Porn.  TLDR Business, Aug 23, 2022.  Credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard.  

Maham Javaid, Barbie’s ‘Pornographic’ Origin Story, as Told by Historians. Washington Post, Jul 19, 2023. “A new trailer for the Barbie movie shows her visiting the real world. In reality, the doll was based on a German sex toy called Lilli.”

Thom Hartmann, Alarming New U.N. Report Proves Feminists Right - Want to Know What Men Really Think About Women???  Thom Hartmann, Jun 12, 2023.

Amanda McCracken, How Longing [for Love] Keeps Us from Healthy Relationships. TEDx Talks, Sep 29, 2023. McCracken shares her personal journey of realizing that she had become addicted to the longing for love, which was rooted in a sense of personal shame and also neuro-chemical realities about how we can become addicted to unrealistic fantasies, rather than believing she was worthy of love and understanding what healthy love is. This insight is going to be increasingly important to Christian spiritual formation.

Karen Travers and Emmanuelle Salina, Fake Explicit Taylor Swift Images: White House is ‘Alarmed’. ABC News, Jan 26, 2024. AI-generated porn.

Reuters, OnlyFans Exposed. Reuters, Mar 13, 2014.

Deepa Seetharanam, OpenAI, Meta and Google Sign On to New Child Exploitation Safety Measures. Wall Street Journal, Apr 23, 2024. AI developers work to throttle exploitive material and plug holes in their current defenses

Jeff Horwitz and Katherine Blunt, The Dark Side of Meta’s Algorithms. Wall Street Journal, Oct 11, 2024. Key articles from The Wall Street Journal’s 2023 investigation. Links to the five articles. “In 2023, Wall Street Journal reporters Jeff Horwitz and Katherine Blunt wrote a series of articles about how Instagram and Facebook connected networks of pedophiles and served them disturbing content, and how parent Meta Platforms not only failed to stop this harmful activity but added to the risks.”

Trish Leigh, Mind Over Explicit Matter: Quit Porn and Improve Intimacy through Neuroscience. Thomas Nelson, Mar 2025. See interview with James Li, Is P0rn Ruining Society? Neuroscientist Weighs In. Breaking Points, Nov 17, 2024.

National Center on Sexual Exploitation, Twitter Lawsuit Reinforces Criticism of Section 230. National Center on Sexual Exploitation, Feb 7, 2025.

Jeff Horwitz, Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children. Wall Street Journal, Apr 25, 2025. See archived copy. “Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.”

Liz Dye, Roblox Situation is Worse Than You Think. Legal Eagle, Aug 24, 2025.

Eli Tan, He Made a Friend on Roblox. Their Relationship Turned Sinister. New York Times, Sep 12, 2025. “At age 7, Ethan Dallas began playing the online game, where he met Nate. Deadly abuse followed, said Ethan’s mother, who blames Roblox.”

CNBC, The Alarming Rise Of AI Apps Creating Explicit Images Of Real People. CNBC, Sep 27, 2025.

“As AI evolves, it’s brought with it an alarming rise in “nudify” tools - hundreds of apps and sites that can now easily make fake explicit imagery from photos of anyone, including children. One man in Minneapolis used one of these sites to create graphic content of more than 80 women, including many of his close friends. Three of these women sat down with CNBC to tell their stories of how these fake photos and videos have caused irreversible harm. Often marketed as simple face-swappers, nudify tools are everywhere, from the Apple and Google app stores to ads on Facebook and Instagram. It’s legal to create nonconsensual deepfakes, but now this group of friends and a Minnesota state senator is trying to change that.”

James Li, Lonely Fans. James Li, Nov 2, 2025. Porn producer platform Only Fans is the most profitable company per employee. Only Fans is now owned by a billionaire donor to the Israeli Defense Fund and the Zionist cause. This is a YouTube short video. See also NDTV News Desk, OnlyFans Generates $37.6 Million Per Employee, Surpasses Nvidia And Apple. In fiscal year 2024, OnlyFans recorded $1.41 billion in net revenue from $7.22 billion in transaction volume. See also Marcus Lu, How Much Revenue Do Tech Giants Earn Per Employee? Visual Capitalist, July 3, 2025.

Eran Shor and Xuanchi Liu, The Rise of Spanking, Hitting, and Strangulation: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Aggression in Pornography. Journal of Sex Research, Oct 9, 2025.

“Over the last two decades, a large body of literature has concluded that viewing pornography that features aggression is associated with attitudes that endorse aggression and with sexually aggressive behaviors. Yet, previous content analyses of pornography have produced substantial variability in reported rates of aggression. Furthermore, these analyses did not include data from the last decade and most of them failed to examine time trends in pornographic representations of aggression. We examined a sample of 255 popular online pornographic videos from Pornhub, over a period of 25 years, from 2000 to 2024. While any visible physical aggression appeared in 43.9% of the videos in the entire sample, nonconsensual aggression was rare. Moreover, depictions of aggression in the most viewed videos have not been stable over time, with rates of aggression nearly tripling between the first and last decades of the analysis. While this growth is primarily the result of increases in spanking, we also found significant increases in hitting and choking practices. We discuss the potential consequences of these increases, as well as possible policy and educational implications.”

Anantika Chilkoti, AI Is Upending the Porn Industry. The Economist, Nov 27, 2025.

End Sexual Exploitation, Study on What Pornography Users Pay Attention to Provides Evidence for Addiction. End Sexual Exploitation, Jan 7, 2026.

“It was once believed that only substances like alcohol, cocaine, and nicotine could develop into genuine addictions. But what about certain behaviors like gambling and viewing pornography?  

According to a growing number of addiction experts, both substances and behaviors can be addictive. Sure, toxic substances may have additional negative effects on the body that behaviors do not, but addiction is about out of control behavior, not damage to the body. 

It is well documented in the addiction field that if you show an addict something related to their addiction (what scientists call a “cue”) they would pay more attention to the cue than a non-addict. This makes sense, as addicts tend to think about and pursue their addiction so often that they eventually neglect responsibilities and lose interest in other things essential for health and wellbeing. Put simply, an addict’s brain “values” their addiction over everything else in life, so they give it more attention.”

Barry Ferns, Epstein Isn’t an Aberration. He’s an Inevitable Outcome. Barry’s Economics, Feb 8, 2026.

“The Epstein Scandal Should Be Called "The Billionaire Scandal." Everyone thinks Jeffrey Epstein was an aberration. The science says he was inevitable. This video breaks down the neuroscience, psychology, and economics that explain how extreme wealth concentration doesn't just create inequality. but manufactures monsters.”

Therese Lee, Epstein Was Not an Aberration. Therese, Feb 9, 2026. Therese examines Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Sade, Gilles De Rais, Thomas Thistlewood.

“The release of the Epstein files has reignited global outrage, but treating Jeffrey Epstein as an anomaly misses the terrifying reality: he is not unique. Throughout history, powerful men have utilized their status to exploit and abuse with impunity. In this video, we move beyond the sensationalism of true crime to analyze the historical parallels, comparing Epstein’s network to other figures who leveraged their influence to evade justice. This is a deep dive into the systems that protect abusers and why Epstein Island is just one chapter in a much longer story of patriarchal power.”

Courtney Furlong, James Benjamin Hinnant, Childhood Adversity and Sex Trafficking Experiences Linked to Economic and Psychological Outcomes for U.S. Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Mar 12, 2026.

Introduction: This investigation sought to develop a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation by considering the links between childhood background, trafficking experiences, and outcomes.

Methods: To that end, 350 survivors of commercial sexual exploitation living in the US were surveyed. Guided by ecological and life course frameworks, variables included adverse childhood experiences, socioeconomic disadvantage, educational achievement, trafficking experiences, and several outcomes, including income, employment status, posttraumatic stress symptoms, dignity, and sobriety.

Results: Results suggested that adverse childhood experiences were strongly linked to more severe exploitation and poorer outcomes. Educational achievement improved income and employment without reducing trafficking severity. Socioeconomic disadvantage showed no significant risk, contradicting prior research. Further, more severe trafficking experiences were significantly linked to poorer economic stability. Findings went on to suggest that trafficking-related experiences may play a mediating role in the negative effects of early adversity on income, employment, and sobriety.

Discussion: This investigation highlights the diverse and individualized needs of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, indicating that tailored interventions are essential for addressing the complex interplay of childhood adversity, trafficking experiences, and recovery trajectories.

Matthew B. Ezzell, Sarah Aadahl, Ana J. Bridges, Jennifer A. Johnson, Elizabeth Hodges, Chyng-Feng Sun, Child Advocacy Workers’ Accounts of the Connections Between Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse. Journal of Social Sciences, Jan 29, 2026.

“This study analyzes the perspectives of support providers to survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) on the potential links between pornography and the sexual abuse of children. Drawing from fifty interviews, eight focus group discussions, and post-interview surveys with frontline child advocacy support professionals from various backgrounds and settings, each with at least five years of experience in the field, this paper presents a conceptual model that situates pornography and CSA within interconnected “zones of violence” across digital, institutional, and community environments. Participants identified overlapping risk factors that can heighten pornography exposure and CSA vulnerability, including strained guardian–child relationships, inadequate supervision and digital literacy, socioeconomic precarity, limited access to services, and restrictive or patriarchal sexual norms. They described mediating processes linking pornography to abuse—social modeling, normalization of coercive and violent sexual scripts, grooming, power/threat dynamics (including sextortion and blackmail), and the production and circulation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Respondents perceived pornography as pervasive in young people’s lives, reported that it contributes to perceived shifts in CSA patterns, and emphasized the absence of best practices. They advocated comprehensive, digitally literate sex education; routine, developmentally appropriate screening; trauma-informed responses that avoid labeling and criminalizing children; and coordinated, multidisciplinary reforms.”

Eva Wiseman, Sex, Love, and Robots: Is This the End of Intimacy?  Guardian, Dec 13, 2015.

Max Opray, Robots May Change the Sex Industry But Could They Replace Intimacy? Guardian, Apr 4, 2017.

Jenny Kleeman, The Race to Build the World's First Sex Robots. Guardian, Apr 27, 2017.

Trace William Cowen, Get a Closer Look at the $15,000 Sex Robot Set to Be Unveiled Later This Year. Complex, Apr 28, 2017.

Karen Turner, The Pros and Cons of Having Sex with Robots. Vox, Jan 12, 2018. Interview with author Neil McArthur, Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications. Amazon, Oct 13, 2017.

Sean Illing, Sex Robots Are Coming. We Might Even Fall in Love with Them. Vox, May 11, 2018.

E.J. Dickson, Sex Doll Brothels Are Now a Thing. What Will Happen to Real-Life Sex Workers? Vox, Nov 26, 2018.

Meredith Goldstein, I Could Really Use a Robot Companion Right About Now. Boston Globe, Jun 5, 2020. About emotional companionship

Desi Lydec and Trevor Noah, How Human-Robot Sex May Become Real. The Daily Show, Apr 23, 2021. A 6 minute humorous video

Vice, Secret Sex Parties of the Mega-Rich | Informer. Vice, Feb 2, 2022. A Front of House Manager reveals what working in a hotel for the super-rich is really like. From hiring out the whole hotel for a ‘themed’ orgy to covering the tracks of staff sleeping with customers, the Informer details how the job can be demanding physically and emotionally. Blood and gore are all part of the job. At the 6 minute mark, the House Manager says that they used a “divide and conquer” strategy among different ethnic groups working in teams at the hotel.

John Oliver, Sex Work. Last Week Tonight, Feb 28, 2022. Points out that sex for pay before a camera is art and therefore covered by free speech, but sex for pay without a camera is illegal in most states.

Taylor Lorenz, ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion. Taylor Lorenz, Jun 23, 2025. Some people believe AI has sentience, and that they have a relationship with it. Key phrases: robo-fusion; awakening; alien intelligence; AI is a god.

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