Pornography is an equal opportunity destroyer. It harms men, women, children and society as a whole. But we can be thankful that more and more Christians and non-Christians alike are speaking out against it.

While we often tend to think that it is mainly men who are consuming and becoming addicted to pornography, there is an increasing number of women who are also getting hooked on porn and are also being damaged in the process. The truth is, porn harms all of us.

I just recently penned a piece on the porno plague, offering a list of 35 books worth being aware of on this topic, and sharing quotes from some of them.

Here I want to appeal to two very new discussions of this—one book and several articles. The volume I will explore and quote from is Girls: Gen Z and the Commodification of Everything by Freya India book, (Swift, 2026). It is a wide-ranging look at the many problems girls face in contemporary Western culture. She is a young woman herself (in her twenties) so she is discussing her own world in this book.

India says this in the Introduction: “This is not the story of a generation falling apart. This is the story of a generation being remade, from people into products, from girls into GIRLS®. We did fall apart, long ago. We were pulled apart from the pressure. But then we were remade, the fragments of us forged into products on display, objects to be optimized, things without feelings.” (p. 1)

Part of what is discussed in the book is the harm of porn to females—especially girls and young women. She speaks of the growing magnitude of this problem: “More and more women are watching porn too. Searches for ‘porn for women’ rose by 1,400% in 2017 alone, and by 2019 nearly three in every ten Pornhub visitors were female.” (p. 175)

There is plenty of harm to women that can be mentioned here. She writes:

One indication that girls and young women are hurting today is the rise in relationship anxiety and attachment issues. More and more of us have started identifying with anxious or insecure attachment styles. . . . There are many reasons for our pessimism, but one might be the influence of porn. Watching porn has been associated with anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia and lower self-esteem. Over time, its use has also been associated with lower relationship satisfaction and a higher likelihood of cheating. (pp. 188-189)

And all the mainstream exposure to porn in various social media sites is a real worry:

Then there is the danger this puts girls in. Predators are all over TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, where algorithms can deliver them more underage content and steer them towards children’s profiles. Some even upload TikToks of underage girls to sites like Pornhub. ‘Meta has allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a marketplace for predators,’ alleged a 2023 lawsuit against the company. In 2024, Senator Ted Cruz confronted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Instagram’s failure to remove child sex abuse content. ‘Mr Zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking?’ he asked, referencing an Instagram prompt warning users that they may be about to see images of child sex abuse, before asking if they want to ‘see the results anyway’.

According to internal Meta documents leaked that year, around 100,000 children are sexually harassed every day on Instagram and Facebook, with many receiving ‘pictures of adult genitalia’. And yet when a Meta employee had asked, ‘What specifically are we doing for child grooming (something I just heard about that is happening a lot on TikTok)?’, the answer was ‘Somewhere between zero and negligible.’ (pp. 191-192)

Women are being lied to about porn just as men are. As India said to Jonathon Van Maren in an interview:

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