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Young people who have learned about sex from watching porn
have a treasure trove of sadly mistaken beliefs and misconceptions about
sexuality.
March 26, 2012
When Lynette, a college student, first hooked up with an
ex-boyfriend, she came face to face with the unrealistic ideals
mainstream porn can create about sexuality.
“I had a boyfriend who didn’t realize that women had pubic hair,” she
tells us in an interview. “Because he had only watched porn, he had
never seen a naked woman outside of porn, so he just sort of failed to
realize they had pubic hair.”
“This came up somewhat before my pants came off,” she added, “so you
can realize how awkward this was.” She paused. “His face was memorable.
In an ‘oh God, what is wrong with me, I am never taking my pants off in
front of anyone ever again’ way."
Porn has become immensely popular in the last century. With the rise
of Internet pornography, no longer do you have to enter a sleazy sex
shop in a shady part of town to witness an astonishing panoply of sex
acts. A quick Google brings you sex acts from the mundane (happy amateur
couples having missionary intercourse) to the bizarre (could looners,
who have a sexual fetish for balloons, ever have met each other outside
the Internet?). Many teenagers have their first introduction to sex from
the glow of a computer screen.
And these days, it can lead to some hilarious misconceptions.
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"These myths about sexuality might seem humorous, but they hide a
tragic truth. A generation of teenagers grew up under Bush’s
record-breaking funding for abstinence-only sex education.
Although Obama has eliminated funding for abstinence-only and funded
evidence-based comprehensive sex education, the damage has already been
done. And both Santorum and Romney, the frontrunners for the GOP
nomination, favor abstinence-only sex education—despite the evidence
that it delays loss of virginity only eight months. According to
research at the Guttmacher Institute, the rates of pregnancy and STIs
among teenagers who received abstinence-only sex education are far
greater than the rates among those who didn’t."
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