Before I gave my , I looked online to see how it was done. There was nowhere else to find out about sex, so I didn’t feel like I had a choice choice. Not much has changed since then – but now there are plans to implement age verification, so people will have to prove that they’re over 18 to access porn sites, which feels mean. What would I have done from 16 to 17 without porn?! Seriously though, as much as we need to protect kids from stumbling across hardcore graphic material that’ll scar them for life, there also needs to be that helps them navigate sex in a healthy way.
So many people think that and slapping is a standard sexual activity now, rather than a kink that needs to be discussed and consented to beforehand. The amount of fake moaning contributes to the as well, because you see all these adult performers doing the absolute most without even being touched. If we actually got taught about pleasure and sex and talked about how these things work, fewer people would go out of their way looking for porn at a very young age because they can’t find information around sex anywhere else. If we want to see healthier attitudes towards sex as a society, let’s start with education.
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I don’t think people go to porn to learn about how to have sex – just like they wouldn’t learn how to drive by playing GTA. But the problem is that many of us have had pretty bad sex and relationships education. This means there’s a gap between fantasy and reality. Also many young people haven’t had sex so they don’t have much real life experience to compare it to. So we learn about having sex from the sex we see, in: films, TV shows (like Game of Thrones), and porn.
