What does it mean to be ‘porn literate’? Perspectives of young people, parents and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand

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dc.citation.volumeOnline First
dc.contributor.authorHealy-Cullen S
dc.contributor.authorMorison T
dc.contributor.authorTaylor J
dc.contributor.authorTaylor K
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-06T02:59:45Z
dc.date.available2023-04-05
dc.date.available2023-04-06T02:59:45Z
dc.date.issued5/04/2023
dc.description.abstractPorn literacy education is a pedagogical strategy responding to youth engagement with pornography through digital media. The approach is intended to increase young people's knowledge and awareness regarding the portrayal of sexuality in Internet pornography. However, what being 'porn literate' entails, and what a porn literacy education curricula should therefore include, is not a settled matter. Recognising the importance of end-user perspectives, 24 semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents, teachers and young people in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and analysed via critical, constructionist thematic analysis. Participants drew on a developmentalist discourse and a discourse of harm to construct porn literacy education as a way to inoculate young people against harmful effects, distortions of reality, and unhealthy messages. In addition to this dominant construction of porn literacy education, we identified talk that to some extent resisted these dominant discourses. Building on these instances of resistance, and asset-based constructions of youth based on their agency and capability, we point to an ethical sexual citizenship pedagogy as an alternative approach to porn literacy education.
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dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2194355
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dc.identifier.citationCulture, Health and Sexuality, 2023, Online First
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13691058.2023.2194355
dc.identifier.elements-id460789
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1369-1058
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/18154
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.publisher.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2194355
dc.relation.isPartOfCulture, Health and Sexuality
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2194355
dc.subjectsexuality education
dc.subjectsex education
dc.subjectpornography
dc.subjectporn literacy
dc.subjectyouth
dc.subjectparents
dc.subjectteachers
dc.subjectNew Zealand
dc.subject.anzsrc1117 Public Health and Health Services
dc.subject.anzsrc1608 Sociology
dc.subject.anzsrc2002 Cultural Studies
dc.titleWhat does it mean to be ‘porn literate’? Perspectives of young people, parents and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Psychology
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