Episode Details

For every voice decrying the evils of pornography, there’s another that says it’s healthy, part of our freedom of expression, “sex positive”! So, which is it? 

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• This epidoe of Undeceptions is brought to you by Zondervan’s new commentary on the book of Exodus by Christopher Wright.
• Meet our guest, Melinda Tankard Reist, and find out more about the Collective Shout Movement that she founded.
• Meet our other guests, Professor William Struthers and Simon Camilleri
• Read more on the protest of the 70,000 Korean women who held banners shouting 'My life is not your porn' in 2018 after a spike in the number of spycams found in female bathrooms. 
• Read the New York Times explosive investigative report 'The Children of Pornhub', published in December 2020.
• In response to the NYT report, Mastercard and Visa withdrew their cooperation with Pornhub later that month. 
• Read Melinda Tankard Reist's book, Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry
• Here's the research John Dickson lists off in this episode on pornography: 
  • A study by the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society said it found that pornography enabled sexual confidence and positive community formation, especially for LGBTIQ+ people.
  • A 2007 study published in the American Journal of Medicine found that the sex lives of 18 million men over age 20 were negatively affected due to excessive porn viewing.
  • A recent study by the Kinsey Institute showed that people who use technology for sexting or webcamming gained a sense of emotional connection as well as sexual gratification from this contact.
  • In a study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, researchers discovered a significant association between reported pornography hours per week and gray matter volume in the human brain, and a drop in reactivity to sexual cues.
  • A study published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour looking at Norwegian use of pornography found that couples who use pornography together tended to enjoy a more permissive erotic climate. But where only one person in the couple did, men who used porn were likely to experience problems with arousal, and women who used porn were likely to have increased negative self perception. 
• In February 2021 in Australia, a former Sydney schoolgirl launched a petiti