Youth and Porn Resource Kit
1. Understanding the issues
1.1 Youth and Porn – The Facts
Porn and messages around racism
Recent analyses of racism in porn suggest there are damaging stereotypical portrayals of people of colour across most porn sites.
Specifically,
  • Women of colour are more often depicted as the target of aggression
  • Black or Asian men are portrayed more often as the perpetrators of aggression
  • Black couples are more likely to be portrayed as aggressive and lacking intimacy (50, 51).
The widespread acceptance and consumption of these racialised scripts has significant social implications – and porn literacy is needed to help explore and build young people’s critical thinking around the reinforcement of these harmful racial stereotypes.

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“I do notice that lots of the porn actors are all white. They’re all Pākehā and then the ones that you do see that have more coloured skin, they’re fetishised cos in normal porn videos, it’ll have a random title, like Teacher… if it’s a white girl, but then if it’s a girl with more coloured skin, it’ll say Ebony or it’ll have Latina in the title or Asian in the title, which is extremely fetishised.”
Male, 16 years
“Yeah. It’s just so racist… It's quite damaging, I would just feel sick watching porn because you see yourself put into this little box and stereotyped to that certain thing.”
Female, 24 yrs