Why I Teach a College Class On How To Think About Pornography

“Most of my students were born in the early-to-mid-1990s; they hit puberty under the influence of two conflicting social realities: the widespread availability of broadband and the Bush-era abstinence-only sex education policies. … [This] meant that Internet pornography became the primary and ubiquitous source of information about [sex] … It’s as if instead of offering driver’s ed, we taught you how to operate a car by showing you a James Bond movie.”