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Let’s talk about porn.
From the dark side of pornography to a new feminine approach to porn industry by Helena Vanesa Moreno Solano
Porn is becoming the main source of affective sexual education for our young people. Direc-
tors like Erika Lust are struggling to bring a non-misogynistic approach to the porn industry.
We are seeing how this new pornography, more The average age for the first contact with porn is “macho and vexatious, is being the main source
lowering thanks to the ease of access to mobile technology. According to a recent study of the “Network Youth and Social Inclusion” and the University of Balear Islands, the first viewing of pornography is now at the age of eight - for both boys and girls - this is because the porn sneaks from the Internet as soon as there is access to technology in a very aggressive fashion.
of affective sexual education for our young people: 80% of them say that they did not receive education or that it was insufficient,” said the president of the Network Youth and Social Inclusion, Carlos Rosón.
Pornography
reinforces very marked stereotypes: it tells us what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, reinforcing behaviour patterns; it tells us which are the ideal bodies and which is the correct sexuality. All of these aspects, among others, greatly influence the sexual behaviour patterns of today’s adolescents.
In porn, the typical preferences vary considerably between men and women. Men generally like strong porn, with scenes of anal sex, oral sex, group sex, of a man with many women, and lesbian sex. Women prefer soft pornography and group sex, of one woman with multiple men. Evolutionary psychologists explain it this way:
In the short term, the mating strategies between
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men and women differ substantially, since the goals that are sought are very different. Essentially, women are not interested in having shortterm matings, but men are. For women, pregnancy is very expensive in health, energy resources and future life. The female mind evolved for a
