Stop watching porn.

I don’t rail against pornography because I get a kick out of losing friends. I am challenging it because I have evidenced its violent ramifications via molestation, suicide, and murder firsthand.

Stop playing devil’s advocate for porn.

I don’t just want you to stop consuming porn. I want you to entrench the degradation and suffering of its victims so deeply into your heart that you are compelled to fight against it for the rest of your life.

Stop tolerating porn.

I don’t need you to feel bad for the individuals in porn who have had “bad experiences.” I need you to feel furious about how an entire class of people – women – are subjugated as a whole.

Stop masturbating to porn.

I don’t want you to do this for the sheer fact that porn rewires your brain via the limbic system to associate degradation and humiliation with orgasms and pleasure. I want you to do this because you were humane enough to stop being a mindless masturbating drone and took the time to read about the pornography industry, about its sexist, racist, misogynistic, anti-woman, pro-masculinity, pro-trafficking, pro-rape history and recognized that all women deserve better than pornography and prostitution has to offer.

Offline. With a book. I want you to read. Read. Learn. Read and learn all about how there is a wide spectrum of pornography that begins with softcore and ends in the rape and murder of people on camera. Do you know why I insist on reminding you that it’s a spectrum, as opposed to two entirely separate things? Because the very same people who profit from your consumption of “regular” porn are the same ones who traffic children and murder women. Don’t believe me? You do the research and read and learn yourself. Offline. With a book. I want you to read. Read. Learn.

I am telling you now. If you consume porn, you are complicit in the sexual abuse and rape of children; you are complicit in a world that hates women; you are complicit for the entire spectrum of harm that cascades outwardly from pornography.