Questioning Pornography

The Questioning Pornography podcast hosts thoughtful conversations about porn's impact on society, relying on scientific research and anecdotal evidence.

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Announcement:

After much deliberation, I've sadly decided to take an indefinite break from the Questioning Pornography podcast.

I continue to raise awareness on the harms of pornography through other roles and collaborations.

Previous episodes will remain available.

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My skeptical friend Alexander questions expert John Carr about whether age verification legislation will really work to protect children from exposure to porn. A thought-provoking conversation that helped me uncover blindspots and get new ideas!

Listen: https://t.co/md5qo2qWIQ

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Within the field of pornography research, longitudinal data is arguably the most robust evidence one can get for causation. The paper highlighted in today's episode is a review of various longitudinal studies on how porn impacts kids.

Listen:
https://t.co/Vpwhr9CpT8

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@brain_love_sex Thank you sooo much Mary & Darryl! 🥰🥰

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Billie Eilish says that she struggled with porn use from just 11-years-old.

She says she "used to use a lot of porn" and that it "really destroyed my brain" and now feels "devastated" about it.

Thank you @BillieEilish for speaking about this publicly ❤️

https://t.co/xJ4elB7nz2

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I was so grateful to chat with Dr. Mateusz Gola, leading expert on the neuroscience of porn addiction. I was able to ask some burning questions, correct my previous misunderstandings of the research, and have some laughs!

Listen: https://t.co/gYrOyd8oDz

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Fellow Canadians! Please sign the new petition for Bill S-210: Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act (former Bill S-203)!

Requires that pornography sites have meaningful Age Verification mechanisms to prevent children from accessing their content.

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Christopher Bueker discusses how parents can help their children recover from porn addiction, authoritative vs. authoritarian parenting, signs that a child is addicted to porn, what makes an individual susceptible to addiction, and more.

Listen: https://t.co/NzpdOLiYf6

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What does the overall body of research have to say on how porn affects sexual and relationship satisfaction? What about body satisfaction and self-esteem? Are the answers to these questions different for men and women?

Listen: https://t.co/NuBhZcdEXN

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New longitudinal study finds that Taiwanese adolescents who consume porn are more likely to experience gender discontentedness.

https://t.co/pncmZY4Als

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Mary Sharpe, CEO of @brain_love_sex, speaks to porn's effects on people with Autism, increased consumption of child sexual abuse material (aka. child porn), and "rough sex gone wrong".

Listen: https://t.co/3sE0fFMR2T

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Curious about how pornography impacts *female* consumers? Listen to our latest research highlight episode!
https://t.co/ZwH8fQLGy8

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New study creates a scale by which liking porn is "sex positive" by definition. If there's one thing that irritates me more than the culture's conflation of porn & "sex positivity", it's seeing that conflation enshrined in research.

https://t.co/bmXzvqcBNH

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Another podcast where I'm in the interviewee seat 🙂 See latest episode of "Love, Life, Legacy: A Show about Sex"

Spotify: https://t.co/At2OdBk29W
Online: https://t.co/GdWMOCMPvj

Or search on any other podcast platform 🙂

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Dr. Foubert and I chat about some tough questions I've wrestled with for a while. Ex: Could porn ever decrease chance of rape? What's the difference between "using" people in porn and "using" a taxi driver? And much more!

Listen:
https://t.co/GzD9pCfm0F

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Ps. Please note: that in the intro Jenny recorded after our convo, she referred to me as a "porn researcher". I have no pretension of being a researcher; I am simply a layperson who's interested in reading and talking about the research on pornography.

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The roles are reversed: I'm in the interviewee seat.🙂

In the Wide Open Spaces Podcast's most recent episode, I was interviewed about porn's harms and why I started raising awareness.

Spotify: https://t.co/iKECwuREX9
Online: https://t.co/AhqJTHLQi4

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Learn about the latest research underlying sexual violence including why some women want it to get a bigger sexual high. Also what governments can do to prevent it. https://t.co/gw1t2y9XRY

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This study conducts a qualitative analysis of abstinence journals kept by members of @Reboot_Nation. It explores the various negative effects of porn which motivated members to quit, and what the experience of trying to quit was like.

Listen here: https://t.co/PdLeDYNIhP

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@brain_love_sex So glad you found it helpful! Thanks for the retweet 🤗🤗