In this compelling blog post, Lexie Kite and Jennifer Shewmaker present statistics and analysis that expose how porn has permiated pop culture.

The authors argue that their article “is not just a feminist argument calling out all the harmfully objectifying messages we are exposed to every day in the name of female equality. This is a fight for male and female mental and physical health, for safety, for meaningful relationships, for women’s worth, for the power to recognize and reject these proven harmful influences if we want to. The power of pornographic images — presented to us as normal and natural in the last decade of our lives – is REAL and is worth fighting against.”

Read the entire blog post here.