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‘I’m just curious and still exploring myself’: Young people and pornography

Smith, Clarissa, Attwood, Feona and Barker, Martin (2018) ‘I’m just curious and still exploring myself’: Young people and pornography. New Media and Society, 20 (10). pp. 3738-3759. ISSN 1461-4448

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Abstract

Young people’s encounters with sexual media are the subject of intense concern, but the research underpinning policy debate and public discussion rarely pays attention to the complexity of these. In this article, we show how encounters with pornography are increasingly presented as matters of health and well-being, but often from a standpoint of ‘exposure and effects’ that offers little in the way of understanding the significance of pornography in people’s lives. We consider what our recent research on porn consumption suggests about young people’s encounters and engagements with pornography – focusing on porn as an ‘outlet’, the development of porn tastes and the relation of porn to young people’s developing sex lives and imaginations. We argue that it is productive to understand pornography as a site for developing sexual identities and relationships, as a form of sexual leisure and play, and in relation to the broader emergence of mediated intimacies.

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Item ID: 8988
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818759271
ISSN: 1461-4448
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/8988
Official URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461...

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ORCID for Clarissa Smith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-8733

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Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2018 08:03
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2020 11:02