NoFap, featured in Luscombe's article and recently in an interview with NPR, describes itself as a "comprehensive community-based porn recovery website. We offer all the tools our users need to connect with a supportive community of individuals determined to quit porn use and free themselves from compulsive sexual behaviors."
The NoFap website is intentionally secular, with the notion that pornography addiction afflicts people of any or no faith, and that recovery should be available to all. It offers its users help through a process called "rebooting", which helps users restore the neural pathways of their brain, which research has shown can be changed through constant pornography viewing.
Fight the New Drug (FTND), so named because of porn's addictive properties, is another secular movement that aims to raise awareness of pornography's effects on the brain, the heart (relationships), and ultimately on the world.
In a previous interview with CNA last year, FTND's Clay Olsen said that sometimes it takes awhile for society's views to catch up to the science that's already out there.
"We're very excited to see some of this progress and some of these mainstream media outlets kind of following suit and starting to talk about the negative impacts, we couldn't be more excited about it, but we still have a long way ahead of us."
"Science has caught up with the fact that pornography's harmful," Olsen said, "but society is still catching up."
Mary Farrow worked as a staff writer for Catholic News Agency until 2020. She has a degree in journalism and English education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.