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Porn offers 2 experiences people haven’t been able to find in the COVID-19 pandemic: relief and power. These things porn offers, however, are problematic.
Disclaimer: Some of the resources discussed in the following article are religiously-affiliated. Fight the New Drug is a non-religious and non-legislative awareness and education organization hoping to provide access to resources that are helpful to those who need support. Including links to any legislatively-focused or religiously-affiliated resources does not constitute an endorsement by Fight the New Drug.
There was an 11.6% worldwide increase in porn consumption during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Pornhub, one of the most popular porn sites, even gave users around the world free premium content in the midst of this pandemic.
Rather than using other human beings for sexual gain, let’s learn life-giving ways of self-soothing and, in the process, help reduce sexual exploitation.
Here’s my latest article on the convergence of three pandemics: the coronavirus, porn, and anxiety.
Times of uncertainty like the one we’re in naturally intensify anxiety and powerlessness, and with it, the spread of pornography use. We turn to behaviors that provide relief from the difficulties we face, but as we all know, many of the solutions we find only end up intensifying our original distress.
What’s unfolding today is the confluence of three pandemics: COVID-19, pornography, and anxiety. One country that experienced this toxic convergence of three pandemics is Italy. The Italian government took extensive measures to quarantine the entire country to prevent hospitals from being further overwhelmed. In response, one of the most popular porn sites in the world offered everyone in Italy free premium porn subscriptions throughout the month of March 2020.
When Italian Pornhub users opened the website, they saw this message:
“To keep you company at home during these weeks, you’ll be able to access Pornhub Premium for free for the whole month, with no need for a credit card.”
Yes, to “ to help keep you company ” during a health pandemic, a country was invited to escape an anxiety pandemic by turning to a porn pandemic.
While it’s concerning that a company would promote using human beings for sexual gain, they do so because porn offers two experiences we haven’t been able to find in the coronavirus pandemic: relief and power. The relief and power porn offers however is not only temporary, it’s deeply problematic for two reasons:
1. Porn damages sex and mental health.
2. Porn is a violation against women.
One of the clients I spoke to this week said he felt more triggered to use porn now than in the last two years combined. “I’m not sleeping well and my mind starts racing by 5AM. We’re in a recession, but should we really be talking about a depression? And if that’s not enough, my dad has the flu and can’t get tested. My mind just can’t rest.”
As you can see with my client, when we’re anxious, our brains naturally seek out behaviors that provide us with an opportunity to find relief. What we actually need however is to develop an inner life capable of tolerating anxiety. Instead, porn offers us a shortcut to experience temporary calm and control. As a consequence of outsourcing a solution, we never develop the internal resources for growth.
When you pursue porn as a shortcut to reduce anxiety, your brain forms new neuropathways to connect what you’re doing to the pleasure you’re feeling. Berridge, K. C., & Robinson, T. E. (2016). Liking, Wanting, and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction. American Psychologist, 71(8), 670-679. doi:10.1037/amp0000059; Berridge, K.C., & Kringelbach, M. L. (2015). Pleasure Systems in the Brain. Neuron, 86, 646-664. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.018; Hilton, D. L. (2013). Pornography Addiction—A supranormal stimulus considered in the context of neuroplasticity. Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology 3:20767. doi:10.3402/snp.v3i0.20767; Pitchers, K. K., et al. (2013). Natural and Drug Rewards Act on Common Neural Plasticity Mechanisms with DeltaFosB as a Key Mediator. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(8), 3434-3442. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4881-12.2013; Doidge, N. (2007). The Brain That Changes Itself. New York: Penguin Books. Copy 1 A map of these experiences is formed in your brain, complete with powerful neurotransmitters like dopamine.
These neurotransmitters change our brain by essentially saying, “Remember this! This feels amazing. Way easier than anything else.”
The more you use porn, the more it adversely affects your sexual life. Research has actually shown that the best way to have less sex and less satisfying sex is to watch porn. Bridges, A. J. (2010). Pornography’s Effect on Interpersonal Relationships. In J. Stoner and D. Hughes (Eds.) The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers (pp. 89-110). Princeton, NJ: Witherspoon Institute; Paul, P. (2007). Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families. New York: Henry Hold and Co., 153; Zillmann, D. (2004). Pornografie. In R. Mangold, P. Vorderer, and G. Bente (Eds.) Lehrbuch der Medienpsychologie (pp.565–85). Gottingen, Germany: Hogrefe Verlag. Copy 2
Porn simultaneously overloads you with sexual stimulation while also teaching you to only consider your own sexual desires. Porn is so appealing not merely because it’s “erotic” or “erotica,” but also because it lets you create a world where nothing is required of you. Real sex asks you to know and develop your desires while also learning to study, delight, and call forth the desires of another. Therefore, if you want to limit your sexual potential, porn is the fastest route to do so.
In the research I completed for my book Unwanted , I found that when a person lacked a clear sense of purpose, they were 7x more likely to increase the amount of porn they watched. It’s crucial to understand that a lack of purpose drives us to porn. Many people attempt to stop using porn but do little to transform what drives them to it.
If it were not for pornography, how else would you address your fear of the economy crashing? If not for porn, how else would you address the conflict you’re facing as you spend more time with your spouse? Porn invites you to escape the crucibles of your life. But when you take its bait, you find yourself hooked into an even greater experience of futility.
This is the madness of porn use. The very thing we choose to assuage personal and relational problems ends up intensifying them.
At this juncture, many people try to fight against their desire for porn through contempt or self-mastery. The problem is that this fight does nothing to transform the key drivers that bring you to porn. Therefore, if you want to fight, don’t fight do eliminate porn, fight to create daily rhythms to find calm and greater purpose (more on that at the end of this article).
When you have integrity with your anxiety, your clarity and confidence will grow in your capacity to face the uncertainty ahead.
In times of crisis, we’re acutely aware of our need for relief, but I fear we’re not always aware of the damage we cause towards others in the process. One of the primary problems with porn is that one person’s relief is another person’s exploitation. The fantasy world created in porn requires a woman (or another human being) to be reduced to an object or commodity. In porn, a woman’s body is used to absorb the anxiety and anger men will not suffer.
Porn is always moving to greater levels of violation and degradation. This is why many men will see an escalation from their first porn exposure to what now arouses them.
In the beginning, a swimsuit catalog may have been enough, but now hardcore imagery is needed in order to achieve the same effect. Pornographers know that we long for beauty, but that soon gets hijacked by our demand to control beauty, followed by the eventual desire to see beauty itself be degraded beneath us.
Porn draws men in to experience the warmth of sex and the fire of desire, but once we’ve witnessed the life-giving power of women, we’re confronted with a two-choice dilemma: live in awe before them or violate them.
Researchers analyzed the content of over 300 popular pornography videos and found that men mostly prefer to violate this beauty as 88.2% of the scenes contained aggressive acts. Bridges AJ, Wosnitzer R, Scharrer E, Sun C, Liberman R. Aggression and sexual behavior in best-selling pornography videos: a content analysis update. Violence Against Women. 2010 Oct;16(10):1065-85. doi: 10.1177/1077801210382866.PMID: 20980228 Copy 3
We can all agree that we’re entering a historic time of uncertainty. As we do our part to mitigate the suffering of others through social distancing and quarantine measures, let’s not forget our digital ethics as well.
Even more heartbreaking than facing financial stress would be to become increasingly calloused to the impact our demand for porn has on the bodies and stories of the human beings marketed for sexual consumption. If we’re going to counter a global health pandemic and a porn pandemic, we’ll all need to do our part to protect others and learn generative practices of self-soothing.
Learning to find calm in the face of adversity is not only an investment in our mental health, it also helps lessen the burden we place on others.
1. Recognize that the specifics of your porn search reveal something about what you are attempting to reverse or repeat in your life. Watch this preview episode to learn more.
2. Watch this short video from Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Siegel offers a simple and eloquent phrase for people who find themselves in distress: “name it to tame it.” When we identify and name our concerns, our emotional life is soothed.
3. Download an app like Headspace to learn how to pay attention to the ‘traffic’ going on inside your mind. It will help you practice new ways of finding calm as the anxiety intensifies both within and outside of you.
4. Stop and think about how porn influences you to feel afterward. Consider if you really want to intensify your futility, shame, and loneliness.
5. Pursue activities that engage the senses. Cooking a new recipe, playing an instrument, or writing a haiku will all allow you to experience far more life-giving experiences of pleasure and power.
6. Talk to a trusted guide (therapist or mentor) or an ally about some of the anxiety you’re harboring. Many therapists are now offering sessions online. Go to psychologytoday.com to see therapists in your area who can work with your insurance (if you have it).
Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing . | Unwanted is based on research I completed on nearly 4,000 men and women. The premise is that our unwanted sexual behaviors (use of porn, infidelity, hookups) are not random and therefore have a great deal to teach us.
The Sexual Behavior Self-Assessment . | This self-assessment is designed to help you identify and transform the themes in your life story that shape your involvement with pornography. You will receive a nearly 40-page report to guide you in identifying the “why” behind your sexual behavior as well as directions to consider for growth.
Jay Stringer , LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor from New York, NY. He is the author of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing , a book is based on a research study he completed on over 3,800 men and women exploring the key drivers of pornography use . He’s also the creator of the Unwanted Sexual Behavior Self-Assessment that guides individuals to connect the dots between their story and their porn use. To learn more about Jay, visit his website: jay-stringer.com .
1 Berridge, K. C., & Robinson, T. E. (2016). Liking, Wanting, and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction. American Psychologist, 71(8), 670-679. doi:10.1037/amp0000059; Berridge, K.C., & Kringelbach, M. L. (2015). Pleasure Systems in the Brain. Neuron, 86, 646-664. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.018; Hilton, D. L. (2013). Pornography Addiction—A supranormal stimulus considered in the context of neuroplasticity. Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology 3:20767. doi:10.3402/snp.v3i0.20767; Pitchers, K. K., et al. (2013). Natural and Drug Rewards Act on Common Neural Plasticity Mechanisms with DeltaFosB as a Key Mediator. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(8), 3434-3442. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4881-12.2013; Doidge, N. (2007). The Brain That Changes Itself. New York: Penguin Books.
2 Bridges, A. J. (2010). Pornography’s Effect on Interpersonal Relationships. In J. Stoner and D. Hughes (Eds.) The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers (pp. 89-110). Princeton, NJ: Witherspoon Institute; Paul, P. (2007). Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families. New York: Henry Hold and Co., 153; Zillmann, D. (2004). Pornografie. In R. Mangold, P. Vorderer, and G. Bente (Eds.) Lehrbuch der Medienpsychologie (pp.565–85). Gottingen, Germany: Hogrefe Verlag.
3 Bridges AJ, Wosnitzer R, Scharrer E, Sun C, Liberman R. Aggression and sexual behavior in best-selling pornography videos: a content analysis update. Violence Against Women. 2010 Oct;16(10):1065-85. doi: 10.1177/1077801210382866.PMID: 20980228
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Posted March 23, 2020

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Reviewed by Lybi Ma

Coronavirus is permeating every aspect of our lives, including our sex lives.
One area where this has quickly become evident is in the world of porn . The coronavirus pandemic is affecting not just the amount and type of porn being produced, but also how much porn people are consuming and what they're searching for on major sites.
First, porn consumption rates are up in general. For example, as reported by Pornhub, traffic has steadily increased in March as the pandemic has spread and lockdowns have been instituted in major cities and countries around the world. In fact, on March 17 alone (the most recent date for which data is available) traffic to the site was up 11.6 percent .
Porn searches are up, in part, because a lot of people are at home with more time on their hands than usual. However, they may also be up because some people are using sex as a coping mechanism for dealing with their fear of disease and death.
As I describe in The Psychology of Human Sexuality , the key idea behind Terror Management Theory is that “when we are reminded of our own mortality, we subconsciously alter our attitudes and behaviors to help us cope with the ‘terrifying’ prospect of our eventual death.”
Some research has found that when we are faced with the prospect of our own mortality, this prompts sexual desire and behavior as a coping mechanism. To the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic is making mortality more salient, it would make sense that you'd see a rise in horniness right now, which could partly explain why more porn is being consumed.
However, people aren't just watching more porn right now—they're also watching more coronavirus-themed porn. In the last 30 days, more than 9 million coronavirus searches have appeared on Pornhub. There are also now more than 1,000 videos that pop up on the site when you search for "coronavirus."
What does coronavirus porn look like? It involves a lot of people having sex while wearing masks, surgical gloves, and hazmat suits.
Why are people looking for this kind of porn? The answer is similar to why people also tend to look for holiday porn throughout the year: It reflects our constant need for sexual novelty and humans’ ability to fetishize virtually everything.
This is part of the reason we often see current social events reflected in our porn searches. For example, around major holidays like Valentine’s Day , Halloween , and Christmas , porn searches become more festive—people start looking for porn with holiday flair.
However, what we’re seeing right now might also be an eroticization of fear. It has been well established that strong emotions are often mistaken for sexual attraction . For example, when people engage in activities that produce high-arousal states—like riding a roller coaster—and then encounter an attractive stranger, attraction to that person increases. High-fear states have the potential to amplify sexual arousal and attraction.
If people are on edge from coronavirus news (meaning they’re in a heightened state of generalized physiological arousal) and, say, see a media image of an attractive person wearing a mask, this could lay the foundation for them to start sexualizing coronavirus imagery.
The rise of coronavirus porn and increased traffic to tube sites isn’t the only way the porn industry is being impacted right now. As recently reported in Rolling Stone , many porn performers are worried about how their work could potentially expose them to the virus. Just being in close contact with someone else (being less than 6 feet apart) poses a potential transmission risk, so it stands to reason that porn performers would be at substantially elevated risk due to the very intimate nature of their job.
Some porn performers are therefore avoiding shoots until the situation is under control to protect their health, despite the personal financial hit it will cause. Others are compensating by doing more solo cam work to minimize physical contact with others while still protecting their bottom line.
Of course, all of this is also going to have implications for porn production companies: If performers sit on the sidelines until the crisis is under control (and we obviously have no idea when that will occur), the potential financial implications for the companies are enormous.
What we’re seeing right now is that the COVID-19 coronavirus is affecting not just the amount of porn that’s being produced, but also the type of porn that’s coming out (i.
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