Probably. Long gone are the times of the little woods catalogue a scuddy mag in the bushes and maybe a discarded max power mag. Now you’ve got some pretty hardcore shit at your fingertips. You cant just jump straight into that shit you’ve gotta build up.
Am pleased I got to see the world before the internet helped turn everything to shit. Hardest we ever got to see was Eurotrash or a late night art house film.
Sex education needs to join the 21st century about 15 years too late, I would say mine was really good but we had community led advice organisations in to teach us for 2 weeks, plus Scotland so very much different to England and Wales.
For context I’m my early 20s and even with a very good sex education featuring in depth education on consent from both genders plus different types of rape/sexual assault, gay, lesbian and Trans related sexual advice, warnings about social media and how a lot of people fake their beauty plus how lots of porn is dangerous or downright illegal (hardcore BDSM stuff) I still would say it didn’t go far enough. I was 16, by then 99% of us had seen, been sharing or had even done pornographic content. So it was both too late and treated us like we had just learned how sex worked when the reality was we had 3 pregnant girls in our year and a few boy with STDs, sure pretty unique and definitely not relatable to the majority of this sub who are/were (Don’t be insulted by this) upper working class or middle class, also a lot older than I am.
I would say we needed to be told about adult content by age 12-13 as we were all using smartphones and laptops by then, nowadays you’ve got kids 4 and up using phones and tablets, which if you’re computer literate sure you can keep them safe but, kids rebel, all it takes is one kid with a shitty guardian and your child could be introduced to very adult content.
I would also say when kids get to 16-17 we definitely need to discuss roles during sex, different types of sex and the acceptance of kinks, you can’t have young minds going online afraid of being different only to be manipulated or shamed for their sexual preferences when looking for advice about sexual exploration. For my example I would point to Sub/Dom relationships, many people are into them even if only a little but the advice on how to act in one, to be safe in one is very hard to find which makes it easy to confuse or manipulate those exploring themselves sexually which in my opinion will help us as a society long term too since it should prevent harmful views on sex such as with Incels or with girls stealing money from guys for a little attention.
TLDR porn education was needed many years ago and will only need addressed more and more as time goes on even for someone like myself who had a comprehensive sex education I found it was lacking for real life.
For a start, some evidence that porn is actually bad for people…
Considering right now it’s just about nothing, then yes. I suspect porn will be similar to smoking, in that people thought it’s fine or even healthy back in the day and you would have been considered to have deviant views if you questioned that. It’s pretty obvious that while pornography can have beneficial affects in a society, it leads to unrealistic expectations in a lot of relationships and there are people who experience addiction (both porn addiction and sex addiction, which includes masturbation). Terry Crews is a famous person who has talked about it.
It’s not shocking to think something that has an affect on your hormones and neurotransmitters (as porn and masturbation often triggered by porn do) could have some negative effects on some people or in certain doses or patterns of use, both in adults but especially in developing brains. Because a generation or two back society was too prudish, people now have a kneejerk reaction against anyone even bringing up the idea of researching or addressing potential negative affects of pornography. The effects could be widespread or they could only be in like 0.1% of society, but either way I find it weird they aren’t even studied.
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Probably. Long gone are the times of the little woods catalogue a scuddy mag in the bushes and maybe a discarded max power mag. Now you’ve got some pretty hardcore shit at your fingertips. You cant just jump straight into that shit you’ve gotta build up.
Am pleased I got to see the world before the internet helped turn everything to shit. Hardest we ever got to see was Eurotrash or a late night art house film.
Sex education needs to join the 21st century about 15 years too late, I would say mine was really good but we had community led advice organisations in to teach us for 2 weeks, plus Scotland so very much different to England and Wales.
For context I’m my early 20s and even with a very good sex education featuring in depth education on consent from both genders plus different types of rape/sexual assault, gay, lesbian and Trans related sexual advice, warnings about social media and how a lot of people fake their beauty plus how lots of porn is dangerous or downright illegal (hardcore BDSM stuff) I still would say it didn’t go far enough. I was 16, by then 99% of us had seen, been sharing or had even done pornographic content. So it was both too late and treated us like we had just learned how sex worked when the reality was we had 3 pregnant girls in our year and a few boy with STDs, sure pretty unique and definitely not relatable to the majority of this sub who are/were (Don’t be insulted by this) upper working class or middle class, also a lot older than I am.
I would say we needed to be told about adult content by age 12-13 as we were all using smartphones and laptops by then, nowadays you’ve got kids 4 and up using phones and tablets, which if you’re computer literate sure you can keep them safe but, kids rebel, all it takes is one kid with a shitty guardian and your child could be introduced to very adult content.
I would also say when kids get to 16-17 we definitely need to discuss roles during sex, different types of sex and the acceptance of kinks, you can’t have young minds going online afraid of being different only to be manipulated or shamed for their sexual preferences when looking for advice about sexual exploration. For my example I would point to Sub/Dom relationships, many people are into them even if only a little but the advice on how to act in one, to be safe in one is very hard to find which makes it easy to confuse or manipulate those exploring themselves sexually which in my opinion will help us as a society long term too since it should prevent harmful views on sex such as with Incels or with girls stealing money from guys for a little attention.
TLDR porn education was needed many years ago and will only need addressed more and more as time goes on even for someone like myself who had a comprehensive sex education I found it was lacking for real life.
For a start, some evidence that porn is actually bad for people…
Considering right now it’s just about nothing, then yes. I suspect porn will be similar to smoking, in that people thought it’s fine or even healthy back in the day and you would have been considered to have deviant views if you questioned that. It’s pretty obvious that while pornography can have beneficial affects in a society, it leads to unrealistic expectations in a lot of relationships and there are people who experience addiction (both porn addiction and sex addiction, which includes masturbation). Terry Crews is a famous person who has talked about it.
It’s not shocking to think something that has an affect on your hormones and neurotransmitters (as porn and masturbation often triggered by porn do) could have some negative effects on some people or in certain doses or patterns of use, both in adults but especially in developing brains. Because a generation or two back society was too prudish, people now have a kneejerk reaction against anyone even bringing up the idea of researching or addressing potential negative affects of pornography. The effects could be widespread or they could only be in like 0.1% of society, but either way I find it weird they aren’t even studied.