December 2025: What Your Teen’s TikTok Feed Teaches Them About Sex — and How to Address It

Culture Reframed is the premier science-based, global organization working to stop the emotional, behavioral, and sexual harms of pornography to children and youth. Join our online community to receive updates on our work, announcements of upcoming events, and the latest news related to pornography and youth.

With the tremendous support of folks like you, this year we celebrated 10 years of Culture Reframed — a decade of reshaping the conversation about pornography’s influence on young people and empowering adults with the tools they need to protect future generations.

In just the past year, our impact has grown significantly.

• We launched our Youth Advisory Council, through which 12 young people are collaborating to support their peers in building resilience against our hypersexualized culture.
• Our team spoke at more than 40 conferences and events — from the Children and Screens Digital Media & Developing Minds International Scientific Congress to trainings with Children’s Advocacy Centers across the US.
• We hosted three informative and insightful free webinars with leading experts and hundreds of global participants.
• Culture Reframed was featured in 26 news articles and interviews, including two op-eds I co-authored for Ms. Magazine alongside Ashley Judd and Eric Silverman.
• And to help adults take meaningful action, we published three in-depth reports and five easy-to-share fact sheets on the most urgent issues intersecting with the porn crisis.

To continue and expand our work in the year ahead, we invite you to make a donation to our small but mighty nonprofit. Your contribution helps us reach our year-end goal, ensuring that every parent, caregiver, and professional has the knowledge and resources they need to safeguard youth in this ever-changing digital age.

Here’s to another year of making a difference, together.

— Dr. Gail Dines
Founder & CEO, Culture Reframed

Your teen might open TikTok to watch dance trends or comedy clips, but within a few swipes, they could be seeing content about “body counts” or appearance-based rating scales. Read our latest article to understand why TikTok’s algorithm can quickly push this sexualized content toward young users (even without them searching for it), how the content shapes teens’ understanding of sex, and what adults can do to address it.

Dr. Gail Dines discusses the link between the porn crisis and sex trafficking in a new article published in Ms. Magazine. Research shows that young men who watch porn are more apt to engage in sexual coercion, dating violence, and are more likely to pay for sex, Dr. Dines explains in the article, “Virginia Giuffre’s Posthumous Memoir Is an Indictment of the Men—and Institutions—That Enabled Her Abuse.”

Today’s tweens and teens are growing up in what Culture Reframed founder Dr. Gail Dines calls “a pornified world”: a landscape overwhelmed with hypersexualized images, pornography, and predators. For many parents and caregivers, the online environment their kids move through every day feels like a whole new world compared to what they experienced growing up. In our latest webinar, Dr. Dines and Dr. Mandy Sanchez unpacked what this environment looks like, how it harms young people, and why trusted adults are more crucial than ever. Watch the recording and read highlights and important tips for parents and caregivers here.

Culture Reframed has partnered with CACs nationwide to develop resources that support multi-disciplinary practitioners and help child victims of abuse, with a focus on resources to help address the increasing incidence of child-on-child sexual abuse, specifically as it relates to pornography exposure. Learn more about the training materials via this easy-to-share fact sheet.

Here’s where you can find the Culture Reframed team in the coming months:

41st Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment

January 26–29 | San Diego, CA

This conference is dedicated to developing skills and knowledge to prevent and address all forms of child and family maltreatment. Dr. Gail Dines and Dr. Mandy Sanchez will present “Growing Up in a Porn Culture: The Harms to Youth & New Resources for CACs.”

Women Describe Lasting Effects of Being ‘Choked’ During Sex (The Guardian)

The first major study on strangulation during sex found that more than half of people under the age of 35 had experienced it, and it was common among teenagers as young as 16 who had seen it in porn and on social media. Three women share how the dangerous trend has impacted their lives. Read more.

A Smartphone Before Age 12 Could Carry Health Risks, Study Says (The New York Times)

Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep, and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone. Read more.

Australia Approves Social Media Ban on Under-16s (BBC)

The Australian parliament approved the world’s strictest social media ban for youth, which could result in multi-million-dollar fines for technology companies that fail to comply. Read more.

The Story of Mr DeepFakes – the World’s Most Notorious AI Porn Site (The Guardian)

After discovering that non-consensual AI-generated sexual images were made of her, German journalist Patrizia Schlosser launched an investigation into the site, raising the question, ‘Why didn’t governments stop this sooner?’ Read more.

When we understand the dangers young people face and equip parents, educators, and communities with evidence-based tools, we can protect future generations. Your support helps us:

• Create free, evidence-based tools and resources for families
• Advance policy, research, and meaningful social change
• Strengthen partnerships that expand our reach

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