#162 Purity Culture and Pornhub (with Erica Smith)

On this episode of #mensexpleasure, I chat with Erica Smith (she/her). Erica is an award winning sexuality educator and consultant with over 20 years of experience. She has provided comprehensive sex education to young women and LGBTQ+ youth in Philadelphia’s juvenile justice system, worked in abortion care, and supported HIV positive youth and transgender youth in her work. In 2019, she developed the Purity Culture Dropout™️ Program- sex education that aims to teach people everything that they missed growing up in purity culture- sex ed that is accurate, queer inclusive, trauma informed, compassionate, and comprehensive.

Key Points:

• Erica introduces herself
• Purity culture and sex education
• Religious beliefs and anti-pornography
• SWERFs and Christian extremists
• NCOSE, Exodus Cry, and FTND
• The Pornhub lawsuit
• Speaking to consumers of porn
• Porn literacy

Relevant links:

Erica’s Instagram: @ericasmith.sex.ed
Erica’s Twitter: @ericasmithsexed

Erica’s Website: https://www.ericasmitheac.com/