The Sexual Wellness Sessions

Defining Porn Literacy With Avril Louise Clarke

Sep 22, 2023

In this discussion, Avril Louise Clarke, a clinical sexologist and brand manager for The Porn Conversation, delves into the concept of porn literacy as a tool for navigating the evolving landscape of sexual content online. She emphasizes the importance of critical thinking about pornography, distinguishing between fantasy and real-life intimacy. Avril advocates for open family dialogues on sexuality, shares insights on ethical pornography production, and underscores the need for comprehensive sex education to equip younger generations with the knowledge to engage thoughtfully with sexual media.

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Porn literacy fosters critical thinking about consumption of sexual content, helping viewers distinguish between reality and fantasy in pornography.

Integrating porn literacy into sex education curricula empowers young individuals to develop informed and healthy attitudes towards sexuality and relationships.

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Understanding Porn Literacy

Porn literacy is defined as a critical understanding of pornography, derived from the broader concept of media literacy. It involves questioning the content consumed and recognizing it as a form of mass media, rather than a direct reflection of reality. This framework encourages viewers to analyze their relationships with porn and how it influences their perceptions of sex and relationships. By promoting porn literacy, individuals can become conscious consumers and mitigate the impact of unrealistic portrayals of sex in their lives.

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Intro

3min

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Understanding Porn Literacy

13min

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Reimagining Porn Literacy and Safety

13min

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Exploring Ethical Pornography and Its Implications

2min

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Navigating Pornography and Sexual Education

15min

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Navigating Porn Literacy and Its Impact on Real-Life Sexuality

4min

With the changes the world has seen as a result of the internet, and latterly the smartphone with the debut of the iPhone in 2007; there has never been more availability of information and content online at the click of a button. This has completely changed the way in which so many people access pornography and has reduced barriers to who can access it and when.

With this ever-growing online sex culture, porn literacy can offer a way of helping people to think critically, and build awareness and knowledge around the portrayal of sex that they see online. This can help them to feel informed, and to close the comparison and expectation gap between the sex experienced in pornography and that they are having in real life. Porn literacy, which has developed from a media literacy model, can be considered to be an educational tool which also helps to move people away from leaning on pornography as a form of sex education, which is something that it was never designed to be. Ethical pornographers Erika Lust Films created The Porn Conversation to help provide families and educators with free and accessible tools to teach and talk to the younger generations about sex and pornography so that they can feel educated, informed and more able to think critically about sexual content when they come across it.

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Avril Louise Clarke is a clinical sexologist and brand manager of the Erika Lust non-profit project, The Porn Conversation, which provides comprehensive sex education tools for families and educators to educate young people at home and in school – beginning with the topic of porn literacy. Taking on the role acting as a liaison between production and performers, she is also an in-house sexologist and intimacy coordinator on the set of Erika Lust Films.

Follow Avril on Instagram at @sexologygirl

Learn more about The P Conversation at https://thepconversation.org/

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The Sexual Wellness Sessions is hosted by Kate Moyle, a Psychosexual & Relationship Therapist and Certified Psycho-Sexologist, and author of The Science Of Sex : Every Question About Your Sex Life Answered.

Follow Kate on Instagram at @KateMoyleTherapy

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