What increased likelihood is claimed for pornography consumers to buy sex?

Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

Episode 402 "How Pornography Fuels a Culture of Abuse" - Available Now!

18 Mar 2025

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Short transcript excerpt from Episode 402 "How Pornography Fuels a Culture of Abuse" (YouTube, Mar 18, 2025) in which multiple speakers discuss how pornography is connected to exploitation and broader systems of abuse. Key claims in this excerpt: consuming pornography is argued to correlate with a threefold increase in likelihood to purchase sex; speakers state that in schools the majority of child-on-child abuse is perpetrated by other children; and participants frame pornography, commercial sex, and institutional harms as part of a single system that needs dismantling.

Questions this video answers

They are claimed to be three times more likely to buy sex.

You know, if you're a consumer of pornography, you're three times more likely to buy sex.
Why would I allow myself to participate in a behavior that I know is a part of exploiting other human beings?
So the mindset that we have as adults is that, oh, it's the coach, it's the teacher, where you've got to make sure that they're not harming the children. It's the other children who are perpetrating the vast majority of the abuse against children in schools.
Yeah. What I hear you saying, Lisa, is that it's all a part of the same system. And if we don't like where it leads, then we need to work to dismantle the system.