Teen's Beliefs

 

Porn for any kind of teenager can be somewhat disturbing if they are just learning about the misconceptions of the sex industry. But there is a point in time where teenagers are required (in some states) to be taught about sex. Iowa, the state that I am from, is required to have a sex education program, and some of the things I learned from sex education mostly caused me to not like the whole program. I thought the program was disgusting, but it wasn’t until I was older and realized, I didn’t learn what I was wanting to learn from sex education. 

There are many other students just like me who want to learn something, but from Sex Education, they aren’t getting those answers. So they look towards porn to get their answers. However, many younger teens tend to learn false acquisitions of sex from watching porn, some acquisitions I found from What Teens Are Learning From Online Porn give examples of this problem which are quoted,  “Some of those same teenagers assumed the portrayal how how sex and pleasure worked was largely accurate,” and “Drew told me he got the sense that girls wanted to be dominated not only from reading a few pages of “Fifty Shades Of Grey” but also from watching the movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”’.

When it says that some teenagers believed the portrayals of the sexual content and how pleasure actually worked, this shows how much we really know about the real side of porn. In porn, teens think it’s mostly a reality, when in fact, most of the porn-stars are acting. Sometimes over-acting in most cases. So when teens are learning about pleasure and sex from porn, they may use it for their personal times with their significant other. But in most cases, teens then realize that porn is actually a whole acting scenario and realize it’s not how real sex works. 

Then reading about Drew’s statement, I, as a woman, tend to disagree. Books, Videos, and movies always can make that sense of a woman wanting to be dominated, but in reality that’s not always the case. There are some people who want to take over sometimes and that is okay, it doesn’t always have to be the male being “dominant.” It just makes it fun for both sides of the coin. “Fifty Shades of Grey” is meant to have that portrayal of women being submissive as it was meant to be a sexy movie. It allows both genders to imagine what they would be doing if they were in that scenario. 

But when they are learning about how those statements are incorrect, they learn that consent is majorly important in reality. While porn had already been set in stone, you can’t back out of a shot, otherwise you could be shamed. But consent is key in real life, when a woman says stop, or a man says stop, or the word, “NO”. All things that are happening in that moment need to stop, immediately. This goes with the first quote, as the second quote though, Drew started to think of the whole porn world differently, not just males being dominant, he said it was important for him to figure out what he liked by actually getting out there and trying new things, not just watching porn. And he had also realized that women don’t act the same way as they do in porn, which is a very huge outcome for him. So these students learned so much just in 3 weeks to finally get their real answers, and it taught them what they wanted to know. Which is very important to the new generations coming to play.