porn literacy should aim to reduce shame around porn use. Only by reducing shame can we begin to have conversations about how porn impacts our understanding of sexual consent, body image and self-esteem….
…To date, discussions on what porn literacy should entail tend to focus on the negative implications of porn use.
This was echoed in reports from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Skills on how to improve relationships and sexuality education in schools suggesting that we talk about the risks of porn use.
But there are a number of reasons why we should not only talk about the risks.
Allowing for discussions on the positive, negative and neutral outcomes can help young people to understand how personal beliefs vary about the appropriateness of sexual practices seen in porn.
Having this knowledge can help young people to become critical thinkers….
Kate Dawson, from the School of Psychology at NUI Galway, writing for RTÉ Brainstorm. Full article at link below.
The importance of porn literacy for young Irish people (Kate Dawson, RTÉ)
Alternatively…
Did you research this Kate?
“Porn users demand a constant stream of new, increasingly violent and fetishized content. In order to keep up with this demand, more women and children become prostituted and trafficked”
National Center on Sexual Exploitation. (2015) https://t.co/oQUk0jWPSE
— Pàdair 🇻🇦 (@Pada1r) July 31, 2019
You know it makes sense.
Nofap? Look forward to your prostate cancer so.
I don’t think that’s been scientifically proven, has it ?
(Not that charger salmon is taking any chances)
Chernobyl Semolina? Who?
The Brother and Papi double act.
It’s the new Dumb and Dumber.
You’ve got me bad fellers.
Step away from the internet for a while.
Heh,heh,heh.
heh × 4
your’re a modern day ABM, charger old bean.
Irony meter explodes!
Heh,heh,heh.
Correlation has been shown not causation.
It may simply be that men notice and do something about it sooner instead of ignoring symptoms.
#naughtyrichfinegaelmom
Kate needs to get out more and meet some alpha males.
That’s not creepy at all.
Is that not our old pal jimmey russell posting under a new name?
Well Padair maybe its only anecdotal but I’ve been playing with me pickle while looking at porn for 20 years now and have no interest in violent and fetishized content
Twenty wasted years…
Wasted? It is possible that Stephen spent the first 19 years looking at the most deprived, violent, fetishized porn imaginable (see rule 34). Has worn himself out, and now the only fetish left is no fetish?
“Middle-aged, average-looking couple, doing missionary, with the lights off” – pfooooorrrr
We need to have a serious conversation about this for what it is…not promote it as.
“Only by reducing shame…” – previously a person would have to purchase it in a shop but there is no shame factor where online consumption is concerned, particularly after a person has normalised consumption. We don’t have enough amber and red lights in place to guide people away from this. It’s addictive or at least strongly habitual, it affects relationships negatively, it disorients us on our expectations, it objectifies people and leads us to pursue encounters over relationships, but worst of all, it’s a misleading “liberation” that leads a lot of people down their own rabbit holes (that are socially taboo) to their own personal detriment – best of all, everyone things everyone watches it so “it’s grand”.
Thing is… at this stage I could never have a one night stand… what’s the chances of bumping into a stranger who wants to eat jelly fully clothed in the shower?
Outside of Broadsheet that is.
That was you, Bertie? Wow, I’m star struck!
I have to say I’m a great admirer of your early work. Before your blancmange years, that is.
Just be grateful you bailed out before the Angel Delight years, my secret shame.