I first saw porn at a house party in high school when the boys put it on to shock us, laughing. A friend was held hostage on a boat on our lake until she gave her boyfriend a blow job while other guys stood outside, listening. My freshman year roommate was secretly filmed having sex with a guy in our dorm; many other male students saw the video. Porn has many positives for education, inspiration, and sexual release, but the pervasive misogyny and violent themes need addressing.
What Porn Taught a Generation of Women
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.
theatlantic.com