How to teach teenagers to think critically about porn | Emily F. Rothman

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🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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"The free, online, mainstream pornography that teenagers are most likely to see is a completely terrible form of sex education," says public health researcher Emily F. Rothman. She shares how her mission to end dating and sexual violence led her to create a pornography literacy program that helps teens learn about consent and respect -- and invites them to think critically about sexually explicit media.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features pornography literacy scientist Emily Rothman, recorded live at TEDmed 2018.
0:09.3	This talk contains mature content.
0:13.4	Six years ago, I discovered something that scientists have been wanting to know for years.
0:19.9	How do you capture the attention of a room full of extremely bored teenagers?
0:26.3	It turns out, all you have to do is mention the word pornography.
0:31.2	Let me tell you how I first learned this.
0:33.8	In 2012, I was sitting in a crowded room full of high school students
0:37.7	who were attending an after-school program in Boston.
0:40.7	And my job, as guest speaker for the day,
0:43.0	was to inspire them to think about how exciting it would be
0:46.1	to have a career in public health.
0:48.4	The problem was, as I looked at their faces,
0:51.7	I could see that their eyes were glazing over,
0:54.0	and they were just tuning out. It didn't even matter that I wore what As I looked at their faces, I could see that their eyes were glazing over,
0:54.3	and they were just tuning out.
0:56.5	It didn't even matter that I wore what I thought
0:59.0	was my cool outfit that day.
1:01.8	I was just losing my audience.
1:04.3	So then one of the two adults who worked for the program said,
1:07.8	aren't you doing some research about pornography?
1:10.7	Maybe tell them about that.
1:13.1	All of a sudden, that room full of high school students exploded into laughter, high
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