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Ever suspect that social media was doing more harm than good, at least to social relations? If you did, now there's a new study that seems to confirm those beliefs. According to a new survey of 2,000 married Britons, conducted by U.K. law firm Slater and Gordon, social ...

The following link will take you to a YouTube video. Please exercise discretion. https://t.co/zRhvJmyZpz — The Porn Effect (@ThePornEffect) July 31, 2016

I never knew what the word meant - until I sat in the classroom with my student who'd just turned 12. She sat in her place, ready to bentsh bircas hamazon, and I sat in mine, just beside her desk at the side of the classroom. Usually she sung bircas hamazon with the clas...

Married and love to watch some steamy porn together? Be warned, as frequent pornography use can sound the death knell for your happy marriage. According to the researchers, pornography is associated with a substantial increase in the probability of divorce for married p...

One of the big demoralizers and deterrents to spiritual progress, is the feeling that I'm anyway in the mud and G-d surely isn't interested in me now. Even if we are making good progress in general but now we had a slip or fall, we get this feeling that "I'm anyway far ...

Rabbi Azriel Ariel, of the the Israeli organization Hotam, which works to propose Halachic solutions to societal problems, has called to address the phenomenon of romantic relationships in the workplace. He stressed the need to create a behavioral code that will prevent u...

Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act which involves force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person involved has not attained 18 years of age. The specific forms of exp...

What does it take for something to be considered a public health crisis? This question hit the national stage when the Republican National Committee declared pornography a public health crisis in its draft platform, which will be formally voted on next week at the Rep...

As we all know, the Internet is a cesspool of shmutz. And yet, in the modern era, it's almost impossible to live without it. So, like walking on the streets, where you need to know which are the safe places to go and which are not, and what behavior is safe and what is ...

Anyone who avidly follows contemporary popular culture and cultural trends in general is probably well aware that the pornography (adult entertainment) industry is an entity that generates billions of dollars of revenue in the United States annually. What is more notable...

Dear Unwilling, What if your best friend told you the following: "I have a secret that I want to share with you because you are my best friend in the whole world. I have never revealed this to anyone. There is a forest at the end of the city. You need to go at night, so n...

One of the tools used in sex offender treatment (SOT) is called "victim sensitization," i.e. teaching sex offenders (not addicts, mind you, but actual predators, who not only get triggered but actually violate vulnerable others, including children) about the human side o...

Rabbi Dovid Heber of Baltimore, who has been a member of GYE's Rabbinical Board since 2010, gave permission that this letter be shared, including with the GYE community. Rabbi Heber wrote the letter 20 years ago, when Internet use was in its infancy. In the letter,...

When to start talking. When do we start talking? A lot sooner than most parents are comfortable with. Research suggests that children as young as 10-11 years of age have viewed pornography, with some suggesting that it may be as young as 5 to 6 years of age. Basically, a...

Viewing pornography is a very delusional act. You are pretending to be loved and wanted when you're alone in a room.

Porn can't take away the viewer's real life problems, but it can become one of them.

Imagine: you had finally won the BIG PRIZE! Each morning, your bank will deposit $86,400 in your personal account for your use. However, this prize has rules: 1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. 2. You may not simply transfe...

$20,000 in 1956 would be worth $175,000 today. That’s the price point at which Norman Larsen – a self-educated chemist with only a high school diploma to his name – sold his newly invented water displacement formula. That is quite a bargain considering the fact that the...