"I was deeply in denial about my sexuality until my mid 20s. So it took a long time for me because there was so much shame built up around being LGBTQ and then on top of that, the shame that's already there around pornography," she says. "Porn is involved as it is with most of the other, you know, straight or cisgender youth of the Church too." But it just has a bit of a different, a different role or different meaning for a lot of LGBTQ plus youth than I see!"
Discover new insights and perspectives around the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community, the Church, and viewing pornography. We’re discussing how religion impacted TJ’s experience of processing his sexual orientation, why pornography use doesn’t influence your sexual orientation, and the importance of dismantling the internalized homophobia that makes acknowledging and exploring one’s sexuality so difficult.
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