UNDISTRACTED with Laura Bennett S13E02 Greta Eskridge: "Pornography is a form of self-medication that..."
Mar 12, 2025
Greta Eskridge, author and mother of four who writes about parenting and pornography, shares candid stories from her life. She explores why porn is so pervasive today. She discusses how it can shape expectations, act as self-medication, and change intimacy. She offers practical ways to start conversations with kids and to rebuild real connection beyond screens.
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Porn Availability Makes Old Parenting Obsolete
- Pornography is far more available now than in the 1980s–90s, so parental approaches from that era no longer work.
- Greta Eskridge stresses parents must be proactive because kids can encounter porn accidentally on phones and social apps.
Personal Recovery Sparked Parental Action
- Greta saw pornography's harm firsthand after her husband confessed to a porn addiction, which motivated her to learn and protect their children.
- That personal recovery work and parental concern led her to write It's Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn.
Pornography Rewires How Viewers See People
- Continuous porn consumption objectifies people and can reshape how viewers treat others off screen.
- Greta links objectification to mental harms like shame, depression, and to industry harms like trafficking and nonconsensual material.
