Four years ago, I started a class at Temple University titled, “Social Perspectives of Digital Pornography: The Other Sex Ed,” centered on porn literacy, or what young people learn – or don’t learn – from digital porn.
I wanted to create a space to examine these issues, not from the assumption that pornography is entirely good or entirely bad, but that avoiding the conversation altogether only does harm.
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