{"id":18194,"date":"2024-12-12T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18194"},"modified":"2024-12-12T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:26:19","slug":"lets-talk-about-pornography-no-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18194","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk About Pornography. No, Seriously."},"content":{"rendered":"
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More adolescents than ever are watching it. What\u2019s needed, researchers say, are frank conversations and \u201cporn literacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brian Willoughby knows he\u2019s doing a good job when parents become uncomfortable. That\u2019s because part of his job involves telling them that their teenagers are looking at pornography \u2014 hard-core, explicit, often violent. Sometimes, the conversation is with a church group.<\/p>\n

Dr. Willoughby is a social scientist at Brigham Young University, where he studies the pornography habits of adolescents and the impact this has on relationships. When he goes into the community to explain what the modern world is like, he speaks plainly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always have to be careful to couch things by saying, \u2018I\u2019m not saying porn is good \u2014 but I am saying it\u2019s a reality,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cYou can stick your head in the sand and pretend it doesn\u2019t exist, and say this is bad and pray harder, or use addiction language, but you have to have a realistic understanding of what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past, many parents have tried to ignore the watching of pornography by their children, forbid its use or wish it away. But scholars who study the adolescent use of online pornography say that the behavior is so commonplace and impossible to prevent that a more pragmatic approach is required. When it comes to pornography, they want us to talk about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The aim: to teach adolescents that the explicit content they encounter is unrealistic, misleading about many sexual relations and, as a result, potentially harmful. The approach does not condone the content or encourage its use, Dr. Willoughby emphasized, but acknowledges its ubiquity and unrealistic, hard-core nature. Long gone are the days of nude magazines that left much to the imagination.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was nudity, sexualized,\u201d Dr. Willoughby said of the pornography of yesteryear. \u201cA lot of parents still think that porn is Playboy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More adolescents than ever are watching it. What\u2019s needed, researchers say, are frank conversations and \u201cporn literacy.\u201dBrian Willoughby knows he\u2019s doing a good job when parents become uncomfortable. That\u2019s because part of his job involves telling them that their teenagers are looking at pornography \u2014 hard-core, explicit, often violent. Sometimes, the conversation is with a church group.Dr. Willoughby is a social scientist at Brigham Young University, where he studies the pornography habits of adolescents and the impact this has on relationships. When he goes into the community to explain what the modern world is like, he speaks plainly.\u201cI always have to be careful to couch things by saying, \u2018I\u2019m not saying porn is good \u2014 but I am saying it\u2019s a reality,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cYou can stick your head in the sand and pretend it doesn\u2019t exist, and say this is bad and pray harder, or use addiction language, but you have to have a realistic understanding of what\u2019s happening.\u201dIn the past, many parents have tried to ignore the watching of pornography by their children, forbid its use or wish it away. But scholars who study the adolescent use of online pornography say that the behavior is so commonplace and impossible to prevent that a more pragmatic approach is required. When it comes to pornography, they want us to talk about it.The aim: to teach adolescents that the explicit content they encounter is unrealistic, misleading about many sexual relations and, as a result, potentially harmful. The approach does not condone the content or encourage its use, Dr. Willoughby emphasized, but acknowledges its ubiquity and unrealistic, hard-core nature. Long gone are the days of nude magazines that left much to the imagination.\u201cThat was nudity, sexualized,\u201d Dr. Willoughby said of the pornography of yesteryear. \u201cA lot of parents still think that porn is Playboy.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18196,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18197,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18194\/revisions\/18197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}