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Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Global Summit | conference, expert, information, policy, seminar, speaker, trafficking, training | Organized by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation to provide education from speakers who are experts in their field and spark discussion on the relationship between sexual exploitation and digital technology. |
Freed for Life! | christian, testimonials | Christian site created by recovered 20 year sex addict. |
Guard Your Eyes | coaching, female, male, religious, struggler, youth | Made for people (men, women, teens) with a Jewish world-view. Offers a 90-day online program as well as personalized programs that seem to be about education and setting goals to overcome unwanted porn use. Advertises that their program is backed by science and endorsed by therapists and rabbis. Also offers spousal recovery groups, a support phoneline, and a forum. |
http://www.scratchingthesurfacedoc.com/ | christian, expert, parent, struggler | Interviews with several professionals in the porn-fighting space. |
https://myliferebooted.mykajabi.com/ | blog, coaching, struggler | Noah Church writes and coaches on how to quit porn. |
https://newlife.com/emb/ | ||
https://porniskillingme.com/ | ||
https://witministries.com/ | ||
https://www.internetsafety101.org/ | parent | |
https://www.intothelightdocumentary.com/ | christian | |
https://www.purelifeministries.org/ | christian, course, residential, spouse, struggler, youth | Pure Life Ministries is "a biblical counseling center, with certified biblical counselors, who themselves have gone through the program and are striving to walk in holiness each day by God's grace and the power of the Holy Spirit." |
https://www.recoveryzone.com/ | ||
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/backpage-has-always-claimed-it-doesnt-control-sex-related-ads-new-documents-show-otherwise/2017/07/10/b3158ef6-553c-11e7-b38e-35fd8e0c288f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.efa49689f15e | policy, trafficking | |
https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-for-a-serious-talk-about-the-science-of-tech-addiction/ | ||
https://www.xxxchurch.com/ | christian, struggler | |
Husband Material | christian, coaching, course, group, male, support | Founded by Drew Boa, Husband Material is a site dedicated to helping Christian Men outgrow porn. |
Issues I Face | My husband's porn addiction | female, spouse, story, support | A sad story about a woman's betrayal trauma over her husband's porn addiction. The website hosting the story includes a contact form readers can fill out if they want a compassionate listener to talk to. |
Love Like That with Dr. Les Parrot | book, christian, course, group, minister, research | "Dr. Parrott takes the latest findings from psychology and sociology and blends them with biblical teaching to reveal five transformative ways of relating to people demonstrated by Jesus himself: being mindful, approachable, grace-filled, bold, and self-giving." For sale is the book Love Like That as well as a teaching course for ministers who want to turn Love Like That into a six-week course in their church, or a package for leading small groups with the book. |
Mobile Parent | device, general, information, parent | A collection of guides and different resources to help parents protect children from harmful digital content and services. Guides include tips for popular apps like Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Roblox, etc. |
Moral Revolution: The Naked Truth About Sexual Purity | book, christian, parent, youth | Recommended by Julee D. |
National Center on Sexual Exploitation | article, general, information, podcast, policy, research, trafficking, training | NCOSE is an organization that collects research and multimedia resources to spread awareness about the links between sexual abuse and exploitation. The organization's ultimate goal is to take down the sexual exploitation industry (porn, pimps, traffickers, etc.) |
National Center on Sexual Exploitation | Pornography | article, book, information, podcast, research | Formerly pornharmsresearch.org. |
Path Back Recovery | christian, coaching, course, group, struggler | Faith-based coaching program led by therapist Tony Overbay. Path Back consists of 40+ videos, worksheets and exercises, and 8 hours of group calls with Tony (1 hour sessions across 8 weeks) where you can ask questions. Costs $547. |
Peter Watts Counseling | counseling | Peter Watts is counselor who specializes in sexual addictions, shame, and sexual identity formation. |
Pink Cross Foundation Australia | christian, information, testimonials, trafficking | The original Pink Cross Foundation was founded by Shelley Lubben to help women leave the porn and sex industry and to document their stories. That site is now defunct but pinkcross.org.au, inspired by the original Pink Cross, lives on and continues to help women leave the sex industry. |
Pivotal Recovery | A site created by Dr. Paula Hall to help those struggling with porn or sex addictions. For £75, a patron gets access to a 60 day course with podcasts and reflection exercises to guide them through the 6 steps of recovery. | |
pornTRUTH | blog, culture, information, story, struggler | A blog that compiles different categories of information to combat pro-porn messages. You will find stories from betrayed spouses, educational videos such as neurosurgeon Donald Hilton, M.D. explaining porn's affect on the brain, news snippets from around the world regarding porn's impact on culture, and more. |
Power of Purity | christian, counseling, workshop | Tony Ingrassia is a counselor is Missouri who specializes in unwanted sexual behavior. Hosts 3 day intensives, video materials online, and a weekly men's meeting on Zoom. |
Proven Men | christian | A Christian-based recovery program founded by Joel Hesch. The site has workbooks and other materials to facilitate small groups focused on pursuing purity. |
Pure Desire | book, christian, conference, counseling, group, speaker, spouse, struggler | Pure Desire is best know for their Conqueror DVD series with Ted Roberts. The DVD series is most useful in a male Christian recovery and accountability group. Pure Desire also puts on conferences and has other materials--primarily books and counseling--helpful for ministers, betrayed spouse, or for individuals trying to quit porn. |
Pure sex radio | christian, podcast | |
pureHOPE | blog, christian, culture, parent, podcast | Resources page includes free pocket guides and e-books. pureHOPE is primarily for arming parents with the tools they need to bring up children with a Godly view of sexuality in a sex-crazed culture. |
RECLAIM | catholic, christian, coaching, course, struggler | The RECLAIM program combines neuroscience, psychology and Catholic theology in order to understand addiction. The course teaches how to use cognitive behavioural techniques, brain science of change training, and other tools for recovering from porn addiction. Also offers coaching and accountability. |
Recovered Man | coaching, group, male, podcast | Matt Dobschuetz, founder of the site, publishes a podcast every few weeks. For $1500 for 6 months, he also offers coaching to online "REV" groups along with Vern Tompke and Chris White. |
Refuse to Click YouTube video | A short video that describes how viewing porn is connected with prostitution and modern sex slavery. | |
S-Anon | The S-Anon twelve-step program provides support for family & friends of sex addicts. | |
SESTA | Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act | information, policy, trafficking | A summary explanation of United States 2018 legal bills FOSTA-SESTA. In short, the previous legal precedent, Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, granted immunity to websites from being held culpable for content posted by third parties (users of their websites). The FOSTA-SESTA bills are intended to make it easier for prosecutors and plaintiffs to bring sites involved in sex trafficking to justice. |
Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) | A twelve-step based group that helps members who have struggled with sex addiction. | |
Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) | A twelve-step group to help those who struggle with lust, sex, and pornography addiction. | |
Sexual Integrity 24/7 | blog, coaching, counseling, struggler | Offers 50-minute coaching sessions to help strugglers with porn, sex or love addictions. Coaching is focused on helping clients achieve a state of sexual sobriety (~6 months without acting out) and further develop ways of living without escaping into porn, sex or love addiction to achieve lifetime freedom. |
She Recovery | christian, coaching, female, group, podcast, sexaholic, struggler | Founded by Crystal Renaud Day, Dirty Girls Ministries hosts online groups for women who are struggling with pornography and sexual addiction. Also offers a 2h40m training video for counsellors, coaches and supporters. |
She's Somebody's Daughter | blog, christian, culture, trafficking | She’s Somebody’s Daughter began in 2012 as an awareness initiative about the links between trafficking, pornography, and the commercial sex industry. |
Sound Investigations | Unverified Ads on Pornhub | expert, information, trafficking | Sound Investigations does undercover investigations into suspected corrupt industries. In this interview they speak with a former Pornhub compliance employee who explains how the site doesn't verify the identity, age or consent of the girls used in their ads. The former employee recounts examples of girls approaching her to have ads of themselves removed because they were posted without their consent. |
Stand in Victory | christian, course, female, male, struggler | Program by author and podcaster Dale Partridge; consists of three 20-minute videos with study guides to follow along, and an optional community forum. One-time payment of $49. Focus is on breaking chains of bondage through understanding the Gospel message. |
Stop SESTA: Section 230 is Not Broken | Civil Litigants Are Not Always Without a Remedy Against Internet Intermediaries | culture, information, policy, speech, trafficking | A legal breakdown of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. In brief, parties hosting content online are thought to be immune against civil litigation because they can't be held responsible for user-generated content on their platforms. However, said party is not immune if they can be proven to have had a direct hand in creating or advertising illegal content. This exception provides individuals, especially victims of sex trafficking, an avenue to bring sites that were complicit in their abuse to justice. An example cited is the infamous Backpage.com which advertised sex trafficking services and would not be protected by Section 230 in a civil case. |
Strive21 | app, catholic, christian, male, struggler | A 21-day detox program by Matt Fradd and Covenant Eyes. |
Tech Lockdown | app, blog, information, internet | Productivity and filtering DNS with customizable settings and profiles. Can be linked to individual devices or your home router. Also hosts guides for securing devices. |
The Bare Facts: The Truth about Sex, Love & Relationships | book, christian, information, research, youth | DVD set and book by Josh McDowell that seeks to answer most common questions young people have about love, sex and relationships. "Knowledge, not ignorance, is the key to youthful purity and a fulfilling marriage." |
The great porn experiment with Gary Wilson | culture, information, research, speaker | YourBrainOnPorn founder Gary Wilson's TEDx talk summarizing findings from different studies on dopamine, porn and addiction. |
The Journey Course | book, christian, course, struggler | 5 months, $25/month. "A guided journey for men and women out of unwanted sexual behavior," authored by Jay Stringer, licensed mental health counselor and ordained minister. Course includes teaching videos and learning modules, a movie, a book, and self-assessment. |
The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography | book, culture, information, research, struggler | By author and speaker Matt Fradd. A non-religious rebuttal to common pro-porn arguments drawing on research from the fields of neurology, sociology and psychology. |
The Social Costs of Pornography | book, culture, expert, general, information, research | ""The Social Costs of Pornography" assembled leading experts in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neurophysiology, philosophy, sociology, law, and political theory to present a rigorously argued overview of the problem of pornography in our society and to make recommendations. The primary purpose of the meeting was to examine the real nature of pornography in its moral and social consequences." |
Treasures | blog, christian, church, information, support, trafficking, training | Offers outreach to women in the sex trade and provides care to survivors. Also offers training so churches can provide the same help in their cities. |
Why I stopped watching porn with Ran Gavrieli | culture, information, speaker | Ran Gavrieli is a writer and lecturer on porn-influenced cultural damage. This 2013 TEDx talk discusses the reality of porn and its consequences. |
https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ | struggler | |
https://sexhelp.com/ | ||
https://setfreesummit.org/resources-and-tools/ | book, christian, device, general, list, parent, spouse, struggler | The resources and tools page of the setfreesummit site includes various links to and descriptions of materials such as books, dvds, programs, and more offered by those who exhibited at the setfreesummit (the setfreesummit was focused on discussing porn use in the church). |
Enough Is Enough | general, information, policy, research, trafficking | Non-profit org that collects research and statistics on several internet-safety related topics including porn and trafficking. See: https://enough.org/research-pornography & https://enough.org/research-sexploitation & also https://enough.org/statistics |
My Chains Are Gone | blog, christian, struggler | My Chains Are Gone makes the point that pornography is empowered by cultural lies we are told and believe about it. Its purpose is to help readers find freedom from chains (lies) by being fed and understanding the truth, which is delivered as a series of articles and stories organized into 3 parts made to be read in order. |
https://www.beltoftruth.com/ | ||
Kairos Centre | counseling, course | The Kairos Centre and Gary McFarlane offer online or in-person (UK) recovery programs and counseling for sex addicts and their partners. |
Pure Life Alliance | christian | Pure Life Alliance (located in Beaverton, Oregon, USA) facilitates the networking of churches, support groups, counselors and other special services specializing in the area of purity. Together this network works more effectively to bring healing and restoration to families and individuals impacted by sexual brokenness. |
Internet Safety 101 | article, blog, information, internet, parent, policy, research, youth | A product of Enough Is Enough; includes a ton of links, articles, and resources covering most topics you can think of. "Educating, Equipping And Empowering Parents" |
Recovery Nation | A site with self-help recovery resources for sex addicts, love addicts, and porn addicts. | |
Oak Mountain Coaching | Coaching to help others recover from sex/porn problems and addiction. | |
Porn Pain Healed | coaching, spouse | Lori Pyatt's mentorship program for helping women heal from betrayal trauma from their spouse's porn addiction. Individual and couples coaching is offered. |
http://techaddiction.ca/ | gaming, internet | |
Exodus Cry | article, culture, podcast, policy, testimonials, trafficking | Exodus Cry publishes short films, feature documentaries, articles and testimonials exposing the truth about porn, sex trafficking, and its impact on society. It seeks to fight sexual exploitation by raising public awareness, effecting legislation changes, and helping those currently being sexually exploitated a way out. |
https://www.religiousalliance.org/ | minister, parent, policy, religious, training | The Religious Association Against Pornography was founded in 1986 in New York in a meeting attended by 28 Judeo-Christian religious leaders. There is some Islamic representation as well. The name of the organization says it all. |
Celebrate Recovery | christian | A Christ-centered program for sustainable recovery and healing that has been attended by over 7 million people. Their 8 principles of recovery are based on Jesus's teaching in the Beatitudes. |
https://www.themindfulhabit.com/ | ||
https://www.hopequestgroup.org/ | ||
Fight The New Drug | app, culture, general, research, story, struggler, testimonials, trafficking | Fight the New Drug is an organization whose goal is to educate the public and to encourage the culture at large to think critically about its current acceptance of pornography. FTND frequently does research and publishes stories that other like-minded organizations reference. They also have created a mobile app called "Fortify" that is designed to help strugglers think more deeply about the effects porn has on them and why they should quit using porn. Clay Olsen is the co-founder and main face of the organization. |
Hopeful Mom | blog, book, information, parent, speaker, struggler | A blog by a mom whose teenage son has been through through porn addiction and recovery. She wrote a book, "Sexpectations", and her website has a section that recommends other books not limited to parents, and recommendations for filters and products useful for combatting porn. |
Joe Dallas | blog, book, christian, counseling, speaker | Personal site for Christian author, speaker, and counselor Joe Dallas. |
Integrity Restored | blog, catholic, christian, coaching, course, information, minister, parent, spouse, struggler, support | A site for helping Catholics (men, women, couples, parents, pastors) get free from porn, get educated about helping others trapped in porn, or finding a therapist to help. Also has an online coaching program open to anyone. $99 for 26 online sessions. https://www.integritycirclecoaching.com/ |
https://www.bravehearts.org/ | ||
https://www.drdougweiss.com/ | ||
https://free-indeed.com/ | christian, course, group, spouse, struggler | |
Dirty Dozen List | culture, general, information, list, policy | The Dirty Dozen List is an annual campaign calling out twelve mainstream entities for facilitating, enabling, and even profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation. |
https://forgivenmuchministries.org/ | christian, information, sexaholic, struggler | FMM educates and equips the public on Trauma Model / Core Issue Addiction Recovery (CIAR), which they think is the next generation of addiction recovery. |
https://www.netaddictionrecovery.com/ | internet, residential | reSTART is a residential treatment center for addressing problematic use of the Internet. |
https://www.frc.org/ | ||
https://livefreecommunity.org/ | christian, course, group, spouse, struggler | |
https://protectyoungeyes.com/ | device, parent | |
https://issuesiface.com/porn/ | support | Issues I Face is a site that offers help and connection for those going through something difficult (including feeling addicted to porn). |
Every Man Ministries | blog, christian, conference, culture, podcast, speaker, struggler | EMM produces multimedia and hosts conferences and speaking engagements to inspire men to be more spiritually alive. Users of this site may be particularly interested in their video "Real Marriage: The Porn Path", and the blog post "Eradicating the Porn Pandemic". |
https://www.integritynow.org/ | ||
Covenant Eyes | app, article, blog, book, christian, course, parent, podcast, struggler, support | Accountability software that shares screenshots of your devices and regular reports with trusted partner. Also provides filtering powered by CleanBrowsing DNS. Offers free e-books and support blog. |
https://www.fredstoeker.com/ | ||
Ask the Psychologist | Boyfriend’s Addiction to Pornography is Damaging Our Relationship | expert, spouse, story | Clinical psychologist answer column. A doctor breaks down a woman's relationship problem with her porn-addicted boyfriend, and further explains how obsessive porn use moves people from emotional bonding with another person to emotional bonding with body parts and orgasms. |
Bethesda Workshops | christian, female, group, intensive, male, sexaholic, spouse, struggler, workshop | Bethesda 4-day workshops are available for men, women, partners, and youth. They are Christian-based and hosted by licensed therapists, the majority of which are Certified Sex Addiction Therapists (CSATs). Recommended by Jessica Harris. Nashville, TN. |
End Slavery Now | blog, information, parent, policy, trafficking | A project of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center with the aim of ending sex trafficking and slavery. Raises awareness by providing information, articles and links to resources. |
How We Love | book, counseling, parent, spouse, workshop | Free quizzes and information designed to help individuals uncover how they learned to love in relationships from childhood and how to use that information to become a stable connector to their spouse/children. |
https://loveandtruthnetwork.com/ | church, course, minister | Founded in 2013 by Garry and Melissa Ingraham, the site offers cirriculum specially designed for those in the church. |
https://bradhuddleston.com/ | book, struggler | |
Daughters for Sale: How Young American Girls Are Being Sold Online | article, culture, information, trafficking | Horrible heartbreaking story from 2016 on Backpage |
Atlas Free | article, information, trafficking | Non-profit organization that fights human trafficking across the globe. |
Dr. John D. Foubert, LLC | Author, Speaker, Consultant | expert, information, research, speaker | Dr. Foubert is an interdisciplinary scholar and expert in sexual assault prevention. His book "How Pornography Harms: What Today’s Teens, Young Adults, Parents, and Pastors Need to Know" may be particularly relevant to users of this site. His website contains a wealth of information and resources pertaining to sexual assault prevention and the harms of pornography. |
Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built | article, culture, internet | Article about the harmful effects of social media and some of the psychology behind how Facebook et al get users addicted to their platform. |
Changing Lanes | blog, christian, church, coaching, female, group, male, parent, support | A ministry that aims to help people of all ages find freedom and healing in sexual integrity through accountability, groupwork and scripture. |
Defend Young Minds | article, book, course, information, parent | Founded by Kristen Jenson, author of Good Pictures Bad Pictures, and designed to provide parents with the resources they need to 'porn-proof' the minds of their young children. The books and courses provided are designed to prepare children with a response plan if exposed to pornography to minimize the damage. |
Center for Relational Recovery | counseling | A counseling center in Virginia specializing in sexual addiction and trauma with an emphasis on healing broken relationships. |
Be Broken | christian, course, group, intensive, podcast, spouse, struggler, workshop | Be Broken offers a 3-day intensive workshop approximately about every other month for men at various locations in Texas, Georgia, and Florida. Be Broken also offers grace-based recovery groups online open to men anywhere (8 weeks long, 10 per group), a 6-week online group for wives for hope & healing with betrayal trauma, resources for families, and more courses available at https://www.purelifeacademy.org/ . |
Click to Kick | course, female, group, male, struggler | 8-week online support group, by the Naked Truth Project people in Salford, UK |
Bloom for Catholic Women | catholic, christian, course, female, spouse | "Bloom For Catholic Women offers therapeutic and Catholic-based online courses for women healing from the trauma of discovering their husband's sexual and/or pornography addiction. We're dedicated to helping Catholic women gain confidence, hope, and resilience through professional therapeutic support, spiritual insight, educational resources, and an empathetic community." |
Beyond the Battle Groups | book, christian, coaching, course, group, male, support | Created by Noah Filipiak, Beyond the Battle Groups are online video-conference-call groups (up to 9 in a group) for men to help them overcome porn addiction. |
Begin Again Institute | christian, intensive, nonreligious, residential | Located in Boulder Colorado, and originally known as Boulder Recovery, the Begin Again Institute offers a 14 day intensive for men, and a 28 day residential program for men, both of which use the TINSA (Trauma Induced Sexual Addiction) model. Begin Again offers a special track that includes similar material but that assumes a Christian worldview. |
Beggar's Daughter | blog, book, christian, female, speaker, struggler | A personal site by Jessica Harris, BD is a "platform to raise awareness and have frank conversations on the issues that Christian women face concerning sexuality". Harris' memoir of the same name recounts how she became hooked on porn at 13 and for years believed she was alone as a female struggler. Her blog is made to give courage to women struggling in porn and remind them they are not the daughters of a beggar, trapped in a life of poverty, but daughters of the Most High. |
Awaken Recovery | article, blog, christian, coaching, group, minister, retreat, seminar, speaker, spouse, story, struggler, training | Birmingham, AL, USA |
423 Communities | christian, group | 423 Communities aims to to shine the gospel of sexual sobriety in every dark corner of the globe. Our strategy is to provide safe, gender-specific groups in local churches where men, women, and young people can honestly embark on the journey of self-discovery, and find healing from the destructive grip of pornography in a safe, shame-free, and supportive environment. |
/r/pornfree | struggler | Subreddit dedicated to discussion/user testimony about becoming free from porn use. Splintered off from /r/NoFap and doesn't associate masturbation as part of the problem, only masturbation when accompanied with porn. |