On the last installment of PornLit we draw back the curtain on the mainstream porn industry. What goes on behind the scenes, and how do we separate fantasy from reality?

Transcript with references here https://tinyurl.com/PornLit4

Links!

General Sex Education:

Scarleteen https://www.scarleteen.com/

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, STI Testing 

Teen Talk, Birth Control: https://teentalk.ca/learn-about/birth-control-2/

Teen Health Source: https://teenhealthsource.com/information/

Pornography Literacy: 

Emily Rothman on Porn Literacy (Ted Talk): 

New York Times - What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn 

The Porn Conversation: https://thepornconversation.org 

Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence:

REES: https://www.reescommunity.com/resources/

Kids Help Phone Canada: Call 1-800-668-6868 or text 686868 (nationwide)

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Like most things, consent is a bit more complicated in practice than it might seem in porn! In this episode we discuss what porn gets wrong about consent, what it tells us about violence in sex, and how to prepare for safe, positive sexual experiences.

Transcript with references here https://tinyurl.com/PornLit2

Links!

General Sex Education:

Scarleteen https://www.scarleteen.com/

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, STI Testing 

Teen Talk, Birth Control: https://teentalk.ca/learn-about/birth-control-2/

Teen Health Source: https://teenhealthsource.com/information/

Pornography Literacy: 

Emily Rothman on Porn Literacy (Ted Talk): 

New York Times - What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn 

The Porn Conversation: https://thepornconversation.org 

Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence:

REES: https://www.reescommunity.com/resources/

Kids Help Phone Canada: Call 1-800-668-6868 or text 686868 (nationwide)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Human sexuality is so diverse, so why does mainstream porn tend to give us one model for heterosexual sex? In this episode we unpack how porn represents different genders, races, sexualities, and body types, and why there's no such thing as "one size fits all" when it comes to sex.

Transcript with references here https://tinyurl.com/PornLit3

Links!

General Sex Education:

Scarleteen https://www.scarleteen.com/

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, STI Testing 

Teen Talk, Birth Control: https://teentalk.ca/learn-about/birth-control-2/

Teen Health Source: https://teenhealthsource.com/information/

Pornography Literacy: 

Emily Rothman on Porn Literacy (Ted Talk): 

New York Times - What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn 

The Porn Conversation: https://thepornconversation.org 

Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence:

REES: https://www.reescommunity.com/resources/

Kids Help Phone Canada: Call 1-800-668-6868 or text 686868 (nationwide)

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the internet, pretty much everyone can and does access online pornography. Why aren't we talking about it? In this intro to PornLit we talk about how to think critically about an entertainment industry that sometimes stands in for sex education.

Transcript with references here https://tinyurl.com/PornLit1

Links!

General Sex Education:

Scarleteen https://www.scarleteen.com/

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, STI Testing 

Teen Talk, Birth Control: https://teentalk.ca/learn-about/birth-control-2/

Teen Health Source: https://teenhealthsource.com/information/

Pornography Literacy: 

Emily Rothman on Porn Literacy (Ted Talk): 

New York Times - What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn 

The Porn Conversation: https://thepornconversation.org 

Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence:

REES: https://www.reescommunity.com/resources/

Kids Help Phone Canada: Call 1-800-668-6868 or text 686868 (nationwide) 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introducing PornLit! A podcast that dives into everything online porn has to teach us about sex, gender, and sexuality. Each episode tackles topics like consent, representations of gender, race, and sexuality, and what goes on behind the scenes of the multi-billion dollar industry of online pornography. Subscribe now to get all four episodes when they drop. Hosted by Astrid.

This project was made possible by an Independent Student Research Grant through Mount Allison University.

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