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Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

A Proactive Approach to Talking with Your Teen About Pornography | Parker Hymas (EP15)

Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

Diane Boden

Self-improvement, How To, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What if understanding the effects of pornography could empower people to make healthier choices? In this episode, I speak with Parker Hymas from Fight the New Drug, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the harmful effects of pornography through research, facts, and personal stories. Parker dives into the organization’s mission to educate people — especially young audiences — on how porn impacts the brain, mental health, and society. The conversation explores the rise in pornography consumption during COVID-19, its broader societal effects, and the critical role parents play in guiding their children toward healthier habits.

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Parker Hymas is the Director of Public Outreach at Fight the New Drug, which is a non-religious, non-legislative, educational organization that works with experts, researchers, celebrities, professional athletes, award-winning journalists, CEOs, authors, influencers, and advocates from across all industries to share about the harms of pornography, and how we can address it in our society.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we start the episode, I wanted to note that the content in today's episode is not necessarily child-friendly.

0:06.2

This conversation has adult themes that are best saved when you don't have little ears around.

0:12.7

And one of the issues right now that we're seeing in society is there's a significant amount of research demonstrating the harms of pornography for individuals,

0:21.7

the consumer, their relationships, our society as a whole, even for people who aren't consuming

0:25.9

pornography, porn is impacting our society.

0:28.7

And then we see that 75% of males and 70% of females have viewed consumed or been exposed

0:33.0

to pornography between the ages of 14 and 18.

0:35.9

There's research to show porn addiction is very real. It shares

0:38.2

many similarities to an addiction to a substance like, say, nicotine that makes cigarettes and

0:43.1

tobacco products addictive. Many young people today are growing up in an age where they have never

0:47.2

even considered that porn might be harmful to them. We find that people end up needing

0:52.3

more extreme forms of content. And all of these

0:56.1

things lead to it impacting mental health because we know that young people are being exposed at

1:00.4

younger and younger ages. We're not going to take away a kid's innocence by talking with them about

1:05.7

this at a young age. We can have the conversation be completely appropriate for a young child,

1:11.7

because for many people today, young and old, porn is like flipping on the light switch

1:16.8

or putting gasoline in your car. What if understanding the effects of pornography could empower

1:22.0

people to make healthier choices? In this episode, I spoke with Parker Hymas from Fight the New Drug, a nonprofit dedicated to

1:30.1

raising awareness about the harmful effects of pornography through research, facts, and personal

1:34.8

stories. Parker dives into the organization's mission to educate people, especially young

1:39.8

audiences, on how porn impacts the brain, mental health, and society. The conversation explores the

1:45.6

rise of pornography consumption during COVID-19, its broader societal effects, and the critical

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