Is pornography useful in adolescent sex education?

We live in a society connected all the time to the Internet, and so are pre-teens and teens. They have mobile devices at their fingertips most of the time and these devices have access to the Internet. Parents need to set rules and limits on their use because tweens and teens still need to develop critical thinking to better understand things, such as the pornography they can see on their terminals.

This sexual education is essential both in homes and in schools. Depending on the approach used, pornography does not have to be so “bad” and if it helps teens understand that it is not real, it may even be “useful”. 11-year-olds may accidentally view pornography or may voluntarily search for it. But the consumption of pornography is usually consumed by adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17. This porn consumption continues even after having had the first sexual relations.

Is watching porn really that bad for teens and their intimate relationships? In fact, adolescents should see pornography as another part of sexual education, in order to be educated and be able to understand that this sexual behavior is not correct and that in no case does it represent the reality of a healthy sexual relationship between two or more people. .

PORN IS NOT REAL

Teens have a digitally driven life. They communicate instantly, they fail to decipher the difference between reality (and what is not) when they watch pornography. They still don’t get it right because pornography is for adults … they don’t have that critical capacity yet. They fall short of that level of understanding of what is being represented and it has developmental and experimental ramifications. That is why teen sex education should include pornographic education.

11-year-olds who are on the verge of adolescence should be taught about the dangers of sexting. At the age of 14, they should begin to learn about how unrealistic images are a vital part of porn and all of this will help them to have a more realistic image about the body and porn .

SEX EDUCATION, TEACHERS, PORNOGRAPHY AND ADOLESCENTS

Sex ed teachers get nervous when talking to their students about pornography. But seeing how easily teens can access explicit content on the Internet , it’s crucial that teachers talk to teens about pornography. They should start to casually mention it to 11-year-olds in a very normal way so that they don’t see it as a horror or as something to be ashamed of. 

Teachers influence their students, and both from school and from home, it is necessary for adolescents to have a foundation of sex education . In this way they will not have the need to independently search for information on the Internet through pornography.

WHAT DO YOUNG WOMEN NEED TO LEARN ABOUT PORN?

Much of the talk here has been about teaching kids to react to porn. The percentage of young women who watch pornography is gradually increasing and we need to talk to them about limits, consent, coercion and pressure. With boys the same, they must understand that in sex a woman does not have to be subjected and there must always be consent on both sides.

If you have a teenage daughter and you are concerned that boys who watch pornography will pressure her to have sex with them, talk to her about manipulation, coercion, limits, and what it means when someone says, “I care about you. but I want you to do something you don’t want to do. ” Boys must also understand that they must respect limits,when someone gives them a negative to sex and mutual respect it is foremost in any relationship partner .