“What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn”

What, teenagers are learning from online porn?!

WHAT TEENAGERS ARE LEARNING FROM ONLINE PORN.

Earlier today, the New York Times Magazine published a long-form piece written by Maggie Jones. Below the title, declaring facts, we learn “American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?”

Not surprisingly, there are many issues and problems with this piece. Here are some intelligent insights from our community, whose observations are spot on.

Here, Conner Habib shares a tongue-in-cheek summary of the article’s assertions and merits.

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Yes I saw this truly terrible article in the New York Times about teenagers and porn.
Here are the points it makes:
•anal is scary!
•porn affects teens (but we don't know how)
•we interviewed two pornographers who aren't really part of or respected by the industry. Cool! https://t.co/7AmFzQBiJ9

— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) February 7, 2018

Next, Habib highlights the author’s qualifications. Sadly, an MFA and/or some measure of affiliation with an Ivy League University is enough to render all levels of direct expertise (like, from community members) moot in the eyes of civilian readers.

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And, of course, the authors is completely qualified to write the piece. She's an MFA professor! And she was at some point at, like, Harvard or whatever. pic.twitter.com/Vurga9gxw0

— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) February 7, 2018

Following is an extremely important point from Alia Janine: mainstream coverage never calls attention to the very real distinctions between content that is paid verses content that is splattered all over piracy-based tube sites. Do mainstream media outlets even know the difference?

Dear Journalist, bloggers & the like,
When you write/talk about online porn there needs to be a distinction between pirated porn & porn that is aged verified & paid for. Most of you talk about the effects of pirated porn yet rarely, if ever mention that the porn is PIRATED.

— Alia Janine? (@TheAliaJanine) February 7, 2018

Janine then calls out other mainstream media sources guilty of the same thing. (It’s not just you, New York Times Magazine!)

So, @nytimes @HuffPost @thedailybeast @TheDailyShow @latimes @washingtonpost @FoxNews @MSNBC @RT_com @nypost @pewresearch @PsychToday & the like, when reporting on porn, please tell the public the porn you are talking about is pirated because that is the issue, not porn itself. pic.twitter.com/yLXkYNq2MA

— Alia Janine? (@TheAliaJanine) February 7, 2018

Here, Lux Alptraum is a time-traveling journalist, which is fantastic!

I know you're wondering how it happens that *last summer* I published a rebuttal to a Times piece that just ran today, and the answer is: I'm a time traveller. https://t.co/mxG6qxUgxa

— Lux ??‍♀️? Alptraum (@LuxAlptraum) February 7, 2018

The following observation may or may not be about the New York Times Magazine piece in question since Janice Griffith tweeted it out yesterday/pre-publication, but the sentiment stands:

mainstream media is so horny for pornography trends

— janice (@rejaniced) February 7, 2018

In sum:

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Don't.

— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) December 8, 2017