On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that could reshape how states are protecting kids from online pornography. In Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, the Court upheld Texas’s H.B. 1181, a law requiring adult websites to verify a user’s age before granting access to sexually explicit content. While…
Category: Research
Everything You Need to Know about Pornography
Research: 1 min. read Our vision at Proven is to see a revival of sexual integrity throughout the entire Bride of Christ. Everything we do works toward that end. Many (if not all) of our blog articles include research that shows why the need for such a revival is so immanent. If you…
Is Porn Actually Bad?
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min. read. Is Porn the Problem? It’s true that we all use porn to hide. Most of us know that. Porn is a way we all medicate our pain, our loneliness, our boredom, anxiety, and depression; we use porn to get to bed, we use it to start our…
Is Porn Addictive?
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read Is Porn Addiction Real? Being informed is a massive part of finding freedom. After all, a person can’t pursue truth if they don’t know what is true. Sensible, right? But being ignorant of something dangerous can damage a lot of people, including ourselves. Most people view porn…
Why People are Having Less Sex
By: Shane James O’Neill The Decline of Sex Did you know that people are having less sex today than they were 10 years ago? A report was released in May of 2019 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which surveyed the sex-lives of 34,000 people. The steepest decrease of sex is…
Is Porn Addictive?
By: Shane James O’Neill Being informed is a big part of finding freedom and living a truer life. After all, a person can’t pursue truth if they don’t know what is true. Sensible, right? But ignorance can damage a lot of people, including ourselves. So, here is how porn and addiction are connected: What…
Mental Health, Depression, Suicide, and Pornography
By: Shane James O’Neill Massive Problems As I’ve mentioned here before, I began to watch pornography before my body was able to respond to the content. My first love was the fantasy world of pornography. Which, tragically enough, isn’t actually unique. Most of the hundreds of millions of pornography addicts in North America began…
The Science of Confession
By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min read Sex Compulsion Have you ever felt a compulsive need to watch porn or hook up with someone? Of course, you have. Ever wonder what that is and how the heck to combat it? So, this is cool. In the book of James (a letter in the Bible),…
The Reason Why Porn Is Everywhere
By: Dane Skelton Stories from a Pastor The man shaking my hand after church said, “My porn addiction cost me my job and I had to move. My wife considered leaving but held on, and now we are attempting to rebuild but she has a hard time trusting me. Another big downer is that…
The Most Popular Pornography of 2017
By: Shane James O’Neill *READER DISCRETION ADVISED Pornhub In January, Pornhub, the largest pornographic website in the world, released their analytics from the 2017 year. The stats are harrowing. But as one victim of the serial abuser Larry Nassar said: We can tend to gloss over the devastation of any kind of suffering but…
How Porn Damages The Brain
By: Lexie LaVallee It might sound extreme to hear that porn has a severe effect on your brain. I mean, how can something you look at have such a strong effect? We watch tv, movies, and play video games and you don’t hear many people talking about addiction and damage from those things, so…
What Research Says About Porn and Relationships
By: Shane James O’Neill As Christians, we’re invited to explore the world, including what secular research provides. As the paraphrased quote from St. Augustine goes: All truth is God’s truth. So what does the secular research tell us about pornography and relationships? What can we learn and how can that learning help us better marvel,…
#MeToo
By: Lexie Smith What’s happening If you’ve been on social media this week, you will have seen your feed filled with posts including a hashtag #MeToo. It all came about when actress Alyssa Milano sent out a tweet. It’s an awareness campaign to illustrate how many people have been sexually assaulted. The numbers are overwhelming….
Dating 100 People — A Parody on Western Date Culture
By: Shane James O’Neill Would it help you to know that porn is physiologically damaging and that you’re designed for one person? Let’s play this out and see if a little satire can give clarity. Nurture vs nature When it comes to dating, the West has definitely made the right decision by putting all…