What is up, people? I'm Garrett Johnson, and you're listening to Consider Before

Consuming, a podcast by Fight the New Drug. Okay, so think about it. Think about everything that

you take into consideration every day to keep yourself, your loved ones, and your community

happy, healthy, and hopeful. Now consider this. There is an ever-growing body of research

demonstrating significant negative impact for yourself and the ones you love in the consumption

of pornography. It can change the way you think, harm your ability to connect with other people, and contributes to changing the world in negative ways.

Whether you're joining us for education and prevention or healing and hope, our goal is to bring you value by compiling interviews with people from around the globe.

We'll sit down with experts, influencers,

advocates, and people with personal accounts. As a brain scientist, one of the things that I know is

that the brain is an organ that modifies itself. So what pornography is doing for a lot of young people

is it's coming in at a time when they're at this very vulnerable state neurologically.

And so what it does is it plants this seed of what's appropriate, what's possible.

How is this impacting our generation and generations to come?

Like, what is this issue, really?

And that put us on this path of exploration and understanding where the conclusion was, oh my goodness,

we need to talk about this.

So when we think about sex trafficking,

we think about someone being forced to engage

in some kind of sexual behavior

due to force, fraud, or coercion.

So it's a paradox.

When it starts out, porn is turning you on,

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