💬 “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? 📱 Connect with me: TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr 📱 Connect with Maree: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mareecrabbe/  Websites: https://itstimewetalked.com/ https://www.breathlesscampaign.com/ https://www.notthenorm.com.au/  🔥 For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book “This Book May Save Your Life”: https://geni.us/DrKaranBook  🎙️ An OG Podcasts production.