Is violent porn changing us?
Next Question with Katie Couric
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4.4 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Are you holding a smartphone or sitting down at your laptop right now? If so, you’re just a few clicks away from free, hardcore pornography. There are no explicit content warnings, and no age verifications to make you think twice about clicking "play”—which means kids as young as 9 and 10 are being exposed to sex for the first time via sites like PornHub. But what happens when porn becomes a form of sex education? On this special preview episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie talks to a young woman who believes porn led to her boyfriend’s scary behavior during sex, and gets real teens to open up about their experiences with porn. Later, she sits down with anti-porn activist Dr. Gail Dines and sex educator Al Vernacchio to tackle how parents can counteract the alarming messages their kids may be absorbing—not just about sex, but about consent, gender equality, and what a healthy relationship actually looks like.
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| 0:00.0 | Next question with Katie Curric is a production of I Heart Radio and Katie Curric Media. |
| 0:07.8 | Hi everyone, I'm Katie Curric and welcome to Next Question, where we try to understand the |
| 0:12.7 | complicated world we're living in and the crazy things that are happening. |
| 0:17.3 | By asking questions and by listening to people who really know what they're talking about. |
| 0:22.3 | At times it may lead to some pretty uncomfortable conversations, but stick with me everyone, |
| 0:28.5 | let's all learn together. Today we're talking about sex and you may not want your kids to listen, |
| 0:37.0 | but you definitely should. And not just you're one of the mill missionary stuff, |
| 0:42.8 | we're talking about scary sex and I'm using the word scary because a recent study showed that |
| 0:49.4 | nearly a quarter of women in the United States say they have felt scared during sex. |
| 0:55.8 | That's because there seems to be a culture of coercion going on where unexpected and sometimes |
| 1:01.4 | unwanted sex like anal sex and choking is happening more and more. And experts believe it has to |
| 1:09.4 | do with porn and how it's shaping heterosexual relationships in particular. I feel like I was |
| 1:15.6 | hearing about this everywhere I went. I was having coffee with a friend and she told me that health |
| 1:21.3 | clinics on campuses were seeing a lot of college students with anal fizzures. I even casually |
| 1:28.0 | asked my gynecologist about these new and yes scary sexual trends when I was getting a |
| 1:33.6 | pap smear, how appropriate. And she answered with an emphatic yes, she told me she hears this from |
| 1:40.4 | her patients all the time and she had just had this very conversation with a young woman the other day. |
| 1:47.6 | So here's my next question. What the hell is going on here? I'm all for consenting adults doing |
| 1:54.4 | what they want, but where is this sexual pressure coming from? So I asked my doctor if she was |
| 2:00.8 | willing to put me in touch with that patient. He told me that the harder I choke you, |
| 2:11.2 | you'll have a better orgasm. He's like, haven't you ever seen one of those videos where the |
| 2:16.5 | guy is choking the girl and she just has the best orgasm of her life? And I said no. He's like, |
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