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This positive illustrated guide explores the impact of pornography and helps you form a deeper understanding of sex and sexuality. Exploring topics including consent, body image and safe sex as well as offering engaging activities, you will be well equipped to have healthy conversations around sex and navigate porn safely.
We’re not afraid to say it: there is nothing inherently bad about watching porn if it’s ethically made and is positively impacting your sexuality. If it helps tap into your to turn you on and get you off, we really don’t see a problem. Pornography itself isn’t “bad” or “wrong,” but it does have benefits and drawbacks that can vary based on each individual person.
You may have an immediate image in your mind of what “porn” is but in reality, it means something different to different people. Most commonly, it refers to sexually explicit media—whether its online videos or printed in a magazine—intended to arouse sexual excitement. Written pornography can range from erotica (more focused on romance and sensuality) to smut (more graphic depictions of sex acts).
Thanks to the Internet, porn is far more easily and widely available than it once was. There is also a huge spectrum of what might be considered porn, from woman-centered erotica to harmful material that depicts brutality, violence, or abuse of children.
People’s attitudes about porn influence how beneficial it is for them, and people who use it regularly tend to feel more positively about the role it plays in their lives. They characterize it as something that:
