Pornography, the Brain and Sexual Violence

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What effect does pornography have on the brain and sexual violence? First, discover how much porn is being consumed, who are the main users, how much do children use? What effect does it have on health and potential for sexual offending?

In one year alone, 2019, 169 years’ worth of porn was uploaded to Pornhub.
Did you know that 80% of the people seeking help for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder report out of control pornography use?

Porn encourages objectification of others, mainly women. This involves seeing body parts as sexual objects; not whole persons with feelings. The process of ‘dehumanising’ a person makes violence against them much more acceptable.

A meta-analysis from 2016 suggests that increased sexual aggression occurs in both males and females after prolonged exposure to pornography.

In a survey by The Sunday Times in 2019 called “How internet pornography is changing the way we have sex”, twice as many young women (38%) as young men (19%) in Gen Z (that is under 22-year-olds) rated rough sex as one of their favourite genres of porn. Also, about half as many singled out BDSM as a preferred pornography genre.

The same survey, cutting across all age groups, showed that the younger people are, the more they say they like BDSM and rough sex. That is 42% of Gen Z, and 29% of 23-38-year-olds nominated rough sex as a favourite.

Sexual strangulation is on the rise with dire consequences. The talk explains the findings from “The Neuropsychological outcomes of non-fatal strangulation in domestic and sexual violence: a systematic review”. In it the lead author identified “a range of injuries caused by non-fatal strangulation that can include cardiac arrest, stroke, miscarriage, incontinence, speech disorders, seizures, paralysis, and other forms of long-term brain injury.” She said that “the injuries may not be visible to the naked eye or may only become evident hours or days after the attack, meaning that they are far less obvious than injuries like wounds or broken bones, and so may be missed during a police investigation.”

If a woman has been strangled by her partner, for her the future risk of attempted murder increases sevenfold, and death by a factor of eight.
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