Resources

The Reward Foundation provides resources to help guide you through the potential harms from becoming hooked on internet porn through websites or on social media. See this overview from our associates at Your Brain on Porn.

At TRF we have developed educational materials and offer reviews of books, videos about the science of porn, mindfulness meditation recordings and lots of new research. We also provide advice on how to get access to the original scientific papers. Some papers are behind a paywall, some are open access and free.

While human beings are driven primarily by emotion, technology is not. It is based on pure logic, constructed with algorithms designed specifically to grab and hold our attention. The internet is a direct means of influence and has a potentially greater effect on shaping cultural values than even that of the family. Understanding its effects is crucial to our wellbeing, especially to our upcoming generations. To respond to this idea, we have been listening to what people want to know about love, sex, relationships and internet pornography. Since mid-2014 our work with young people and professionals in the sex education field has found high levels of dissatisfaction about the quality, relevance and effectiveness of current teaching resources. TRF has developed resources to help redress this imbalance.

We have spoken with entire year groups of boys and girls at schools, as well as well as working with them in small groups and one an individual basis. We use a Human-Centred Design approach to co-develop resources where possible.

We have a free online workshop for healthcare and other professionals worth 7 Continuing Professional Development points. The Reward Foundation has seven lesson plans for use in secondary schools with training for teachers to use them. There’s also a free parents’ guide to internet pornography.

The Reward Foundation does not offer therapy.

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