What Kids Are Learning About Sex From Porn

Consider Before Consuming

Fight the New Drug

Social Sciences, Science, Health & Fitness, Education, Sexuality

4.7 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of sexual violence, exploitation, and child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.

Heidi Olson is a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and the Founder and President of Paradigm Shift Training and Consulting.

Drawing from years of frontline medical experience, Heidi explains why sexual exploitation and trafficking are often missed, how early exposure to pornography is shaping young people’s understanding of sex and consent, and why child-on-child sexual harm is becoming increasingly common.

Episode Resources:

Article: How Porn can Fuel Sexual Violence by Lessening Empathy in Consumers
Podcast: Consider Before Consuming Ep. 17: Heidi Olson
Connect with Heidi: Paradigm Shift
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CAC Training Materials: Culture Reframed

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0:00.0	Here on Consider Before Consuming, we talk a lot about the reality of pornography's impact on individuals, relationships, and society.
0:07.5	And if you're listening right now and you've experienced some of those impacts in your own life, we want you to know you're not alone.
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1:33.9	Wayfair, every style, every home. In today's episode, we sit down with Heidi Olson, a sexual assault nurse examiner
1:51.1	and the founder and president of Paradigm shift training and consulting to talk about
1:55.5	what she's seeing at the intersection of pornography, exploitation, and child safety.
2:00.5	Based on her years working in medical
2:02.4	and child advocacy settings, Heidi shares why exploitation so often goes unrecognized, how normalized
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