Porn Literacy Education

Healy-Cullen, Siobhán; Morison, Tracy

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95352-2_77-1

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education 2023

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95352-2_77-1

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Porn Literacy Education

Siobhán Healy-Cullen

Tracy Morison

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Youth, Pornography, and Addiction: A Critical Review

Healy-Cullen,

Taylor,

Morison

2024

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Purpose of Review In this article, we dig more deeply into the assumptions underpinning common-sense understandings about youth “exposure” to pornography and the ostensible “effects” of this exposure, specifically “pornography addiction”. We trace the emergence of the notion of “pornography addiction”, highlighting how cultural conditions have allowed for its realisation as a socially recognisable and intelligible narrative. Recent Findings Media effects research on the issue of youth “exposure” to pornography is not conclusive, nor is pornography addiction officially recognised as a diagnosable disorder. Moreover, an emerging body of multidisciplinary qualitative research, which, importantly, includes the perspectives and experiences of young people themselves, raises questions about some of the assumptions and conclusions of effects-focused research. Summary Despite inconclusive and contrasting findings, the social narrative of pornography addiction persists both within and beyond academe. We make sense of this persistence in relation to the broader problematisation of youth sexuality, which includes unease and moral objection to young people viewing pornography. It is important to recognise the broader socio-cultural systems supporting the cultural narrative of pornography addiction, and the social functions that this narrative serves, that is, the need for adult intervention into the sexual lives of youth.

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Youth, Pornography, and Addiction: A Critical Review

Healy-Cullen,

Taylor,

Morison

2024

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What does it mean to be ‘porn literate’: perspectives of young people, parents and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Morison

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Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities

Healy-Cullen,

Morison

2024

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Sexual scripting theory, a widely used tool in sexuality research, was originally developed by Gagnon and Simon to illuminate the social nature of sexual practices and identity construction. Later, they sought to develop the theory further to align with a social constructionist perspective. However, vestiges of individualism and cognitivism haunt sexual scripting theory largely due to the use of the symbolic interactionist concept of performance. To address this, we draw on the performance–performativity approach in critical discursive psychology that develops the notion of performance from a discursive perspective and offers a way of extending sexual scripting theory that offers a truly social explication of sexual identity construction. We provide a practical illustration of this extended theorising, drawing on data from a project about young people’s online engagement with pornography. We demonstrate how developing the notion of sexual scripts as discursive resources that enable the performance of sexual identities allows us to illuminate the social and situated nature of identity construction. This framework enhances understanding of the process of sexual identity construction and provides a valuable tool for studying how broader sexual scripts that are sociohistorically specific provide a scaffolding for the ways an individual can construct sexual identities. Overall, this paper offers a valuable contribution to discursive scholarship in psychology by presenting a nuanced analytical framework that coheres with a constructionist, performative view of identity.

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Porn Literacy Education

Cited by 3 publications

References 77 publications

Youth, Pornography, and Addiction: A Critical Review

Youth, Pornography, and Addiction: A Critical Review

What does it mean to be ‘porn literate’: perspectives of young people, parents and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand

Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities

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