Man Within Podcast 530 - Jo Robertson on Teaching Kids To Think Critically About Sex, Why Ethical Porn Isn’t So Ethical, and The Reason The Porn Industry Is So Successful
Jo Robertson is a qualified sex therapist who has completed her Master of Science in Medicine, with a focus on international consumption rates and impacts of porn on adolescents. Jo has trained health professionals, sexual health and sexual harm services, Police and Corrections staff and school communities on research based porn industry insights, the impacts on young people and navigating healthy conversations around porn. Her TEDx talk "Why We Need To Talk About Porn" in 2019 amassed almost 300k views and she regularly speaks on the topic of “youth and porn”.
In this conversation with Sathiya, they discuss:
-Why the man is so influential in helping his wife/partner heal from betrayal trauma
-The reason the porn industry targets children as part of their marketing strategy
-The interplay of current events and mainstream porn content
-Why filters will never be enough to help kids develop sexually
-The importance of teaching kids how to think critically about sex
-The improvements of ethical porn and why it has strengths
-The downside of ethical porn and why it is still an issue
-Jo's predictions on how the porn industry changes over the next 20 years