Porn: What's the Harm? Page #3

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There's not a guy out there

who doesn't watch porn?

I'd be surprised.

You'd be surprised? OK.

'I'm sitting in on sessions

with boys and girls and, like me,

'they're shocked to learn that the

porn industry is worth billions!'

4 billion by the end of 2012

was spent on pornography

via mobile phones.

When young people watch pornography,

do you think young people

feel pressured?

Well, the girls watching it

might think, like,

they need to act like that,

and the same for the boys.

How do girls act in porn?

Like they're liking it.

Yeah, they put it on

a little bit, I think.

GIRL:
A little bit?!

Quite a lot, I think.

Do you think it means

that young people sometimes

have different expectations

of what sex will be like?

Yeah, because I think

young people will see it

and think they can treat

a woman in that way

and it's not right

to treat a woman in that way.

Like, with porn videos,

they last bear long, innit, yeah?

But if you're having sex

for the first time,

you're not going to last,

like, 25 minutes, are you?

No. More like 10...

Maybe. Seconds.

LAUGHTER:

And do you, young ladies, feel like

there is a pressure among girls

to maybe behave

like the porn starlets?

If we started, like,

behaving like a porn star,

we'd get called slut.

But if the boys do it...

GIGGLING:

It's true! Yeah, it is true.

When girls go around

having sex with boys,

they're called a slag,

but when boys do it...

It's like an achievement, yeah.

An achievement. They'll be like...

It's just boys!

It's like, "Good on you, mate,"

but with a girl, it's not good.

Do you think that

that promotes young people

using that language about women?

Yeah, it does.

Do you agree with it?

It depends what they've done.

Like, obviously, if you hear about

a girl sleeping with loads of boys,

you're not going to be

attracted to her, are you? Mmm.

I think some boys,

the way they speak about girls,

sometimes, they forget that,

like, when they're older,

would they want boys to speak

about their daughter like that?

That's true. I've started to

think about that recently as well.

Would I like it if another boy was

talking about my sister like that

or doing things with my sister?

'I'm amazed that

these 15 and 16-year-olds

'seem to know so much

about the porn that's out there,

'and that they understand the impact

that it's having on them.'

'But it's no surprise to people

like sex educator Lynnette Smith,

'who work with teenagers every day.'

I've been involved in sex education

for about 20 years now

and it was literally one summer,

one summer we saw a change,

and that was summer 2002.

Now most of the classes,

at that time, we worked

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