Youth and Porn Resource Kit2.2 Building Critical Thinking
2.2
Building Critical Thinking and Porn Literacy
The following tools can help stimulate critical thinking and draw out young people’s ideas and understandings during porn conversations.
The P.O.R.N. Literacy Tool
The ‘Reflect, Reframe, Refer’ Tool
Examples of The ‘Reflect, Reframe, Refer’ tool in action
WHAT is this resource?
This resource includes a ‘PORN critical-thinking question tool’ and a ‘Reflect, Reframe, Refer’ response-framework’ to help stimulate critical thinking and draw out young people’s ideas and understandings of porn.
WHEN and HOW do we use this?
The PORN. tool offers exploratory questions you can use in informal settings, during consultations, and with groups of young people. The ‘Reflect, Reframe, Refer’ tool helps you prepare for in-the-moment responses to tricky porn questions. Both tools can be used across a range of settings and can be adapted to incorporate cultural and faith perspectives. Time should be allowed to explore and reflect on the answers.
What is Porn Literacy?
It is the ability to think critically about, analyse, and evaluate the messages in porn.
“Young people think the way adults talk about porn needs to change. Young people by and large share real, sometimes serious concerns about the influence of porn.
However persistent negative messages from adults often don’t match their own feelings and experiences, and that makes it harder for young people and adults to talk about porn.”
Growing Up with Porn, Classification Office, NZ 2020