Blog Post 8

The article "What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn" highlights some common misconceptions high school students have from watching porn online. 

One misconception a girl had was that all women in porn felt pleasure. It said "But what she learned from porn had downsides too. Because she assumed women’s pleasure in porn was real, when she first had intercourse and didn’t have an orgasm, she figured that was just how it went." She believed she couldn't experience the "pleasure" women in porn experienced, because she didn't get the same results when she recreated porn. In the porn literacy class, the students learned that the porn stars are acting and probably feel pain. When she was a little older and more experienced she quit watching porn altogether because she didn't like looking at the women's' faces knowing they probably didn't feel good. She told the interviewer she had a new mission, which was to always orgasm during sex.

Another misconception some students had believed was that girls like anal sex. One boy said “'I would just do it,' said another boy, in jeans and a sweatshirt. When I asked what he meant, he said anal sex. He assumed that girls like it, because the women in porn do." He said he didn't think he had to ask for consent to have anal sex with a girl because they don't ask for consent in porn, and the women in the videos always like it. A study showed that "...a majority of girls who had tried anal sex said they didn’t actually want to; their partners persuaded or coerced them...And in another study, by Indiana University’s Debby Herbenick and others in 2015, about 70 percent of women who had anal sex said they experienced pain." So he learned that women normally don't like anal sex.