Youth and Porn Resource Kit1.1 Youth and Porn – The Facts
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Youth and Porn — The Facts
This resource will help you increase your understanding and knowledge by answering Youth and Porn questions with facts.
How and why do youth watch porn?
What’s in the porn content young people watch?
What do young people in Aotearoa say about porn?
Porn as a sex-education tool
Porn and consent
Porn, coercion, and sexual aggression
Porn, gender roles, and stepfamily-themed sex
Porn, rough sex, and choking
Porn and messages around racism
Sexuality and gender diverse porn
WHAT is this resource?
This resource offers a broad overview of mainstream porn in relation to young people, including youth exposure, youth usage patterns and motivations, current porn content and themes, and young people’s views on porn.
WHEN and HOW do we use this?
This resource is a go-to fact sheet to help increase your wider knowledge and understanding of porn and how young people interact with it.
What is pornography?
Pornography (porn) is sexually explicit media, primarily intended to sexually arouse the audience. It includes nude (full or partial) images of a person or people, real or animated, engaging in any form of sexual activity.
“I have seen quite a lot of it (porn). I guess because learning about sex for gay men in school was never an option… But I think back on it now and see how aggressive all the stuff I watched was… I kind of wish I never have to think about that stuff [porn] because it raised a lot of questions for me personally about sex.”
Gay male, 19 years