32. How To Be A Person -- Everything is Porn
From The Bold Acting Podcast by Reflections from Jason Bryden's More-than-just-an-Acting-Class class in Toronto.
August 23, 2024 · 5 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the pervasive influence of pornography in modern society and its implications for youth and education.
Porn is no longer relegated to sex acts. If the definition of a porn compulsion is an inability to stop using it (and let’s face it, we’re not just passively watching porn) then porn is also the way we interact with social media, dating apps and the biggest streamer in the world, YouTube. If you’re swiping and you’ve thought to yourself, “I’m 30 minutes closer to the grave and I have nothing but shame and self-loathing to show for it,” it’s porn. Swiping up and down, left or right = pornography. Comparison porn Trauma porn Food porn Car porn Cute animal porn Shame porn Nothing is worse than porn porn. I subscribe to a newsletter called Culture Reframed which advocates for greater measures in the U.S. to protect children from pornography. The newsletter is a pipeline of bad news, statistics that will leave you hopeless and reports from the front lines of advocacy that are all too familiar. Like “For young people today, pornography is the de facto sex education. It’s a scary realization, but when porn is more prevalent in society than comprehensive sex ed curriculums, there’s really no way around it.” This describes growing up in Ford Nation. Dougie repealed Kathlyn Wynn’s…
People in this episode
Host: Jason Bryden
Topics covered
- pornography
- social media
- sex education
- mental health
- youth advocacy
Keywords
- pornography
- social media
- sex education
- youth
- mental health
- Culture Reframed
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Culture Reframed
Places: Ford Nation
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