How porn and social media impacts young Aussies
Young regional Australians say porn impacts how their peers perceive sex, and experts say it is more accessible than ever. Video by Jess Belzycki. CW: This video mentions rape and violence.
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00:00It is definitely affecting their attitudes towards women because they are being exposed
00:26to acts of violence within the pornography that they are viewing with respect to strangulation,
00:34consent, non-consent role play.
00:37We have a lot of victims come forward and disclose sexual violence to us and quite often
00:44the people coming forward were shown a video of violent pornography by their partner and
00:51it was a suggestion that they should perform something similar.
00:56And when they didn't consent to that, their sexual partner went forward and still did
01:00it anyway even though they had not consented.
01:03We need to have better policy and regulation about access to pornography, the types of
01:10pornography that are available for consumption.
01:14We also need to increase our sexual health education both in schools and in the community
01:21because there's a large proportion of young people who now aren't in school and don't
01:24have access to that information.
01:27So I feel like it needs to be a campaign base and I think that we need to increase our porn
01:33literacy in particular.