Internet pornography has taken the place of the predominant channel not only in the developing countries but increasingly in low- and middle-income countries too. Currently, there are around two billion internet users.
It is very important for the youth to understand and negotiate sex and relationships. And in the absence of finding it in the real world, the internet is giving them a platform to search for the much-needed information.
Sexual education is an important tool for public health by providing youth with the skills and knowledge to make informed choices regarding their sexuality. An important, but often overlooked component of sexuality education covers issues of gender roles, equality, and sexual abuse.
As per a recent survey in some of the developing countries, only 19% of girls and 35% of boys aged between 15 and 24 knew about HIV and AIDS. And only a little more than 10% of adolescents knew about sexually transmitted diseases.
The importance of sex education and the rise of online porn:
Comprehensive sex education plays a very important role in reducing maternal and child mortality or reducing sexually transmitted diseases. But the government has been unwilling to implement compulsory sex education in public schools. And this gap gave rise to more accessibility to online porn. And along with it the international organizations who are trying to reach young people with comprehensive sex education have also moved online. And in the past couple of decades, commercial pornography has been used by adolescents to learn about sex.
Both the sectors have got the same aim, and that is to provide evidence-based education, which includes anatomy, disease prevention, and family planning and connects with millions of people- which is practically impossible with traditional sex educators.
But the sex education organizations are minnows of the internet when compared to the big fish like Porntube XL. These porn sites attract almost around 1.3 billion visits per month, which is 650 times more visits than the topmost sex education sites.
With the relevant situation, it is time that sex educators collaborate with porn providers and try to plan for a way to use the power of porn to communicate comprehensive sex education. This includes sex educators and policymakers examining how responsible porn, promoting respectful, equal and pleasurable roles for all genders could be produced for the benefit of young people.
Sexuality education helps promote sexual and reproductive health, and in turn, help reduce maternally and child mortality, and rates of sexually transmitted diseases. One of the main reasons for the failure of poor countries to reduce maternal mortality is the lack of political interest in improving comprehensive sexual health.
There is an assumption that boys (and men) should or do already know about all the sexual information. And this leaves the young boys with some important questions like, what to do? How to do it? Without no one to get these answers, pornography sites like Porntube XL come to their rescue who literally shows ’What and how it’s done.’ And along with information it also offers pleasure to the viewers.
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