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Matt Fradd is the author of Delivered: True Stories of Men and Woman Who Turned from Porn to Purity. After experiencing a profound conversion at World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, Matt has worked through full-time lay ministry in Australia, Ireland, Canada, and Texas. He has served as an apologist for Catholic Answers and has traveled all over the world, speaking to tens of thousands of teens and young adults. He and his wife Cameron have four children and live in North Georgia.

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How Big Is the Problem of Sex Trafficking?

Sex trafficking is a kind of forced or coerced prostitution: it’s misusing another person’s helplessness for sexual pleasure and profit. But just how big is the problem today, both in the United States and abroad?…

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Is Porn the Same as Prostitution?

For many people, pornography is in a whole different category than prostitution. Men who would never think of buying time with a prostitute will watch porn all the time. Clearly, they are different enterprises, right?…

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Does Porn Prevent Rape? No. Here’s Why.

In recent years, economics professor Todd D. Kendall and law professor Anthony D’Amato have made the argument: potential rapists perceive pornography as a substitute for rape. They believe the rise in access to Internet porn…

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Is Porn Addictive? Yes. Here Is How.

For a long time, those in the field of addiction medicine debated the legitimacy of “process” addiction or behavioral addictions. Can you be addicted to an activity, like watching pornography or gambling? In this video,…

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Does Porn Cause Erectile Dysfunction?

Back in 2013, GQ Magazine published an article called, “10 Reasons Why You Should Quit Watching Porn.” Yes, the same GQ that published its “100 Hottest Women of the 21st Century” feature in the same year they…

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Does Porn Impact the Brain?

“…masturbation is the one great habit that is a ‘primary addiction,’ and that the other addictions, for example, alcohol, morphine, tobacco, excessive gambling, etc., only enter into life as a substitute and replacement for it.”…

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Do women look at porn? Yes. Here are the stats.

If there ever was a time when porn was an exclusively male habit, that time is long gone. Here are some of the most recent statistics about women and pornography use… Your web browser does…

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4 Lies About Sexuality in Fifty Shades of Grey

The Fifty Shades of Grey franchise is enormous. When Vintage Books rereleased the already-popular trilogy in 2012, it took less than five months for Amazon UK to report it had sold more copies of the first…

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50 Fast Facts About Fifty Shades of Grey

It’s an international best-seller, a raunchy musical, and a major R-rated motion picture. It is the fastest-selling paperback book of all time (that is now part of a trilogy), and it is a franchise worth…