In short: If you use porn, you are destroying your ability to have a healthy, happy relationship with a real person. I could tell you dozens of personal stories that illustrate this point; I’m sure most of you could, too. Again, for anyone who wants to quit porn, visit Covenant Eyes. For anyone who wants more information, check out Fight the New Drug.

It’s only April, and three major peer-reviewed studies highlighting the damage of digital porn have already been released. The largest study of online porn to date confirmed the prevalence of sexual violence in mainstream content; another study just released in Spain details how porn encourages and creates a predilection for sexual violence.

Now, Human Communication Research has published a study titled “Pornography and Sexual Dissatisfaction: The Role of Pornographic Arousal, Upward Pornographic Comparisons, and Preference for Pornographic Masturbation” by Paul Wright, Bryant Paul, Debby Herbenick, and Robert Tokunaga. Their findings are not ground-breaking, but once again confirm an enormous body of research detailing how porn use destroys real relationships. From the abstract:

Research finding that pornography use is associated with lower sexual satisfaction is common; evaluation of the mechanisms hypothesized as underlying the association is not.

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