The UN reports that one in three women worldwide experiences sexual violence.
In the United States, one in five women will be raped in their lifetime, and one in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18.
The UK is working to ban strangulation porn or choking porn.
The Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention claimed to find 26 million porn videos depicting strangulation on just one popular website.
WebMD says that sexual strangulation is one of the riskiest sexual activities a person can try.
Femicide Census reported that 22% of femicides in the UK–so cases where women are killed by men–involve strangulation or asphyxiation.
We see that teens are trying to copy what they’re seeing in pornography.
One in four young adults say that porn was the most helpful source for learning how to have sex, and a majority of boys and about a third of girls believe that porn is a realistic depiction of sex.
Statistically, in pornography, men are perpetrators of the violence, and women are statistically most likely the targets of that sexual violence, and that’s verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse.
And a 2019 study found that 13% of sexually active girls ages 13 to 17 reported already being strangled.
Almost half of 16 to 21-year-olds say that they believe that girls expect sex to involve aggression, and 42 % believe that girls enjoy sexual aggression.
One in four college women experienced sexual assault. Nearly two-thirds of college-age men shared that they would not report a friend who had committed rape.
Pornography consumers are more likely to engage in actual acts of sexual violence or be more accepting of acts of sexual violence.
96% of all deepfakes are pornographic, and 99% of those pornographic deepfakes target women specifically. From 2019 to 2023, there was a 550% increase in deepfakes online.
There’s a case in Hong Kong recently where a law student made deep fake nudes of at least 30 women that were also students of this university.
4,000 celebrities have recently found to be victims of deep fake pornography.
The president of South Korea actually recently declared a digital sex epidemic due to the deep fake crisis that was happening in their country.
74% of deepfake users don’t feel guilty about consuming deepfake pornography.
A 2025 Thorn study found one in ten minors reported that their friends or classmates had used AI tools to generate nudes of other kids. One in eight young people between the ages of 13 and 20 know somebody who was targeted by deepfakes as a minor.
The Children’s Commissioner in 2023 found that kids are more likely to see porn on social media than they are to see it on a porn site or even on a search engine. Twitter or X is what it’s referred to now is the top place on the internet that kids are likely to see pornography. Dedicated porn sites comes in second, where kids are most likely to see pornography. Next, this might be surprising to some people, Instagram is actually number three on the list, followed by Snapchat. And then finally, search engines.
