“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.
https://twitter.com/ConnerHabib/status/961256444224995328
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.
https://twitter.com/ConnerHabib/status/961258757702410240
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?
https://twitter.com/TheAliaJanine/status/961297367277416448
Janine then calls out other mainstream media sources guilty of the same thing. (It’s not just you, New York Times Magazine!)
https://twitter.com/TheAliaJanine/status/961297379449360384
Here, Lux Alptraum is a time-traveling journalist, which is fantastic!
https://twitter.com/LuxAlptraum/status/961271844576915457
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 griffith (@rejaniced) February 7, 2018
In sum:
https://twitter.com/ConnerHabib/status/938969200634114049
