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It’s time to talk about pornography, scholars say

More adolescents than ever are watching it. What’s needed, researchers say, are frank conversations and “porn literacy.”

(Niki Chan Wylie | The New York Times) Brian Willoughby, a social scientist at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Dec. 6, 2024. In the past, many parents have tried to ignore the watching of pornography by their children, forbid its use or wish it away Ñ but scholars who study the adolescent use of online pornography say that the behavior is so commonplace and impossible to prevent that a more pragmatic approach is required.

(Niki Chan Wylie | The New York Times) Brian Willoughby, a social scientist at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Dec. 6, 2024. In the past, many parents have tried to ignore the watching of pornography by their children, forbid its use or wish it away Ñ but scholars who study the adolescent use of online pornography say that the behavior is so commonplace and impossible to prevent that a more pragmatic approach is required.

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