💬 “When a 13 year old boy stumbles across pornography, I don't think very many of them are interested in seeing women being gagged or choked or degraded. But that is likely to be what they'll see” -Maree Crabbe

⚡️ Maree Crabbe is the Co-Founder of ‘It’s Time We Talked’, an organisation helping children and young people avoid porn’s influence. She has been interviewing people about porn and its impacts for 15 years.

⚡️ In this episode, Maree and I discuss the sharp rise in violent sexual acts being depicted in mainstream, online pornography - and how that’s crossing over into the bedroom.

🎧 Stay tuned to find out:

➡︎ How hardcore porn is reaching children as young as 9

➡︎ How strangulation, coercion and deep-throating is becoming more prevalent

➡ Why the industry is increasingly promoting incest, teen and non-consesual themes

➡︎ What too much extreme porn is doing to our sexual health

➡︎ Strategies to reduce or eliminate porn from your life

📕 Chapters

(1:11 ) More young people are watching porn

(7:02 ) Rising aggression in porn

(14:19 ) Is violence what the audience wants?

(18:17 ) Violence in the bedroom

(23:20 ) How porn causes sexual dysfunction

(27:31 ) Is there “good” porn?

(31:44 ) What can we do about porn?

(38:25 ) Improving sex ed

(42:17 ) Body image and rise in surgery

(47:17 ) The problem of deepfake porn

(50:02 ) What about porn stars?

(52:21 ) Are you addicted?

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📱 Connect with Maree:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mareecrabbe/ 

Websites: https://itstimewetalked.com/

https://www.breathlesscampaign.com/

https://www.notthenorm.com.au/ 

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