"As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace... I started watching porn when I was 11. I thought that's how you learned how to have sex... I think it really destroyed my brain."
Billie Eilish
"Porn is super-disruptive to your sex life, to your libido. They’ve done the studies, they can’t find any kids who don’t watch it…It’s just so destructive."
Orlando Bloom
"Porn is not a taboo, marginal, subversive thing anymore. It's front and center. The average age now where somebody watches their first porn video is age 11... Porn can be anything from something softcore and mellow to hardcore violent torture porn. For somebody to learn about sex from porn is really dangerous."
Rashida Jones
"I teach our kids. When I ask my students ‘What is the biggest difference between my generation and yours?’ I thought they were gonna say, ‘Man, you played all these kind of chords and you were doing this..’ One kid said, ‘Pornography.’ And I looked around and the next one said, ‘Yeah, porn.’"
Wynton Marsalis
"We’re engaged in the largest unsupervised experiment of young men in history, and it’s porn. And the problem, beyond creating unreasonable expectations around what it means to be in a relationship with a woman, it quite frankly takes your mojo to get out of the house and meet someone and develop the skills to actually have your own sex – [porn] takes that away."
Scott Galloway
"I think some things are worse [for my daughter's generation] when I hear stories in schools about boys and what they expect from girls. I mean that the easy access to porn... I think it can interfere with their sexual development because it's all been taken away, industrialised and fed back to them in a completely indigestible form."
Emma Thompson
"And then the other layer, which I find really disturbing, is that because of the imagery that comes out and the consciousness that comes out around porn, I feel like girls - young girls - are getting the message that they have to be [ready for sex]. Like, that's the number one priority. It's so awful. It's doing such a disservice."
Gwenyth Paltrow
"I'm concerned about porn addiction. And I think it's infecting relationships. I think [the Sexual Revolution] gave us a lot of freedom, but it's also at a point now where there seems to be a dark turn. There's a lot of access [to online porn]. I have two teenage boys and I just want us to take stock of ourselves... Remembering what sensuality is and what intimacy is."
