The pornography industry trades in and profits off violence, crime, and the degradation of people. This book uncovers the sordid hidden realities of – and lies behind – the global pornography industry.
Resources
Harms of Pornography
PORNOGRAPHY’S ROLE IN GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
THE HARMFUL IMPACT OF PORNOGRAPHY ON CHILDREN AND SOCIETY
How Pornography Harms
Pornography is menacing people, relationships, and society, and this book has the research and stories to prove it. John D. Foubert, Ph.D., an interdisciplinary scholar who has studied sexual violence since 1993, shares the life stories of more than twenty people directly affected by pornography.
Your Brain on Porn
The Your Brain on Porn book was first published in 2014. Since then it has helped thousands of readers to better understand the science of addiction and the possible effects of internet pornography.
Big Porn Inc
Online access in South Africa
This study was conducted by the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (CJCP) and aimed to pilot the Global Kids Online research tools in a low income country, as well as gather rigorous and comparable evidence on the nature of children’s internet use in South Africa.
The Impact on Children
The harms of pornography to children and young people are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Messages that children and young people learn from pornography, shape themselves and the culture we live in. Worldwide, pornography is now being framed as a Public Health Crisis by many governments, health, violence prevention and advocacy organisations.
Get the Facts
A lot of people are convinced that there’s no such thing as an addiction to porn. But science disproved the old belief that in order to have an addiction to something it has to involve a substance that is physically put into the body; like with cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs. Excessive consumption of internet porn bears all of the signs, and dangers, of a true addiction.
Porn Harms Research
A collection of peer-reviewed research articles, along with current news and opinion articles about the harms of pornography. (Directed by the NCOSE)
Dignity Academic Journal
An open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing original articles on topics related to dignity, sexual exploitation, and violence.
Love, Sex and the Internet
A key source of evidence-based information about love relationships and the various risks of watching too much pornography.
Empowering Parents to Empower Children:
Good Pictures Bad Pictures
Every child deserves to be warned about the dangers of pornography. Good Pictures Bad Pictures was designed to make that conversation easy for parents and empowering for kids.
To bring pornography out of the dark, where it has power, and into the light, where our kids have power!
How to Talk to Your Kids about Porn
Because exposure to pornography is inevitable, it is necessary to prepare our kids for that exposure. Porn’s addictive nature, the way it can alter a child’s developing brain, and how it will affect all of their future relationships make these discussions vital to a child’s healthy sexual development. Our kids must be warned of its dangers as well as educated about the hateful nature of pornography.
30 Days of Sex Talks for Ages 12+
This book is written by parents and reviewed by professionals to make it easy for parents to discuss sex with their children in the context it belongs: A healthy relationship with joy, laughter, human intimacy and respect.
Selfies, Sexts and Smartphones: A Teenager’s Online Survival Guide
In this digital age, teenagers face major challenges. This book takes a closer look at these hurdles – cyberbullying, sexting, addiction, internet safety, pornography, anxiety, depression, privacy and reputation – and all within a South African context. An accessible and highly relevant must-read on the issues teenagers face every day.
Someone Should Have Told Me
A resource that equips parents to talk to their children about the potential dangers of the online world – such as being exposed to pornography, sexting, and grooming by online predators. This book, that parents read with their children, helps to facilitate this often difficult, but incredibly important conversations – and ensures that children are aware of possible dangers.
Parenting Resources
A guide for parents to keep children sexually safe in a pornographic culture.
Put together to include biblical values and the latest scientific research, this book will give you the education and tools you need to lead your family in the pursuit of purity, to a life that is free from the clutches of a pornography.
Kids Can Reject Porn!
Because exposure to pornography is inevitable, it is necessary to prepare our kids for that exposure. Porn’s addictive nature, the way it can alter a child’s developing brain, and how it will affect all of their future relationships make these discussions vital to a child’s healthy sexual development. Our kids must be warned of its dangers as well as educated about the hateful nature of pornography.
Parenting Resources
Protecting and teaching children about the dangers of pornography and sexual exploitation is a big job these days. Here are helpful tools to make it easier. We have tried to organize them by categories to better help you find what you are looking for, but we encourage you to skim each category.
Talk - A Practical Approach to Cyberparenting and Open Communication
Mandy Majors shares the ups and downs of her cyber-parenting journey, and the game-changing discovery that transformed her parenting approach. In her book she guides parents on how to approach all the difficult (but necessary) conversations that children safe.
Raising Porn-Resilient Kids
Kids are just a click away from hypersexualized media and porn. That’s why Culture Reframed has developed a complete, best-practice toolkit, which will help you raise porn-resilient kids.
The Parents of Tweens Program is online, free, and accessib
Response and Recovery
Pandora's Box is Open - Now what do I do?
Dr. Gail Poyner is a Licensed Psychologist who specializes in treating adults, adolescents and children who struggle with pornography addiction. She is known for her community outreach and public presentations about how pornography harms families, children and society. This book teaches parents the five-step C.L.O.S.E. plan to help their children become stronger than pornography’s powerfully addictive pull.
Hayden-Reece Learns What to Do if Children See Private Pictures or Private Movies
In this story Miss Martin teaches her class, age-appropriate language, what “private pictures” or “private movies” (i.e. pornography) are and what to do if they come across it. The book helps parents to talk to children in a way that children understand what to do if they are exposed to pornography.
Fight for Love!
Fight the New Drug is a non-religious and non-legislative organization that exists to provide individuals the opportunity to make an informed decision regarding pornography by raising awareness on its harmful effects using only science, facts, and personal accounts. FTND fights for real love and healthy relationships, including healthy sexual relationships. Thanks to science, we know that porn can negatively affect consumers’ sex lives, which is one of the many reasons we fight against it.
Your Brain on Porn
The Your Brain on Porn book was first published in 2014. Since then it has helped thousands of readers to better understand the science of addiction and the possible effects of internet pornography.
Porn Recovery Addiction
The pornography of today has created an unprecedented epidemic of sexual harm. Children and young people are being exposed to violent and degrading content, which by default has served as their sex education.
Defeat Porn Together
Covenant Eyes is designed to help you and those you love live free from pornography. Their accountability service helps you overcome porn by monitoring your screen activity and sending a report to a trusted ally who holds you accountable for your online choices.
Safeguarding Kids from Pornography
Pornproof your School or Home in 5 easy steps!
According to research studies, exposure to pornography harms children in many ways, from development, to behaviour. Our 5 STEP Pornproofing Action Plan – allows you to safe-guard your School .