what exactly is a happy, healthy sex life?

we found that only seven articles provided original data about the relationships between pornography and its audience in relation to porn literacy

However, much research on young people and pornography tends to isolate pornography from broader media ecologies (Goldstein, 2020). Further to this, a media studies approach to porn literacy can also (but rarely does) address the cinematic, technological and economic aspects of porn and its production and industries (Jenkins, 2004). However, most

We do not have data about whether people who consume pornography have more or less pleasurable sex lives.

From this perspective, porn literacy includes working out how to learn from pornography in a positive rather than negative way. Under this approach, a porn literacy framework should not simply focus on what is read (that is, media content) but how it is read (that is, media use), acknowledging that pornography can be read well to gain useful

We do not have data about whether people who consume pornography have better levels of porn literacy.

Authenticity is a key aspect of DIY/amateur porn being read as intimate and representing ordinary people. On this basis, it can be argued that ‘perceived realism’ – to re-signify this term – is necessary to incite particular kinds of affect and erotic pleasure for young people.

Legislators in 16 states have passed resolutions declaring that pornography, in its ubiquity, constitutes a public-health crisis. The wave of bills started five years ago, with Utah, which went a step further this spring by passing a law mandating that all cellphones and tablets sold in the state block access to pornography by default.

When we call a representation ‘unrealistic’, we automatically imply that there could be a more ‘realistic’ representation. So – what would a more ‘realistic’ representation of sex look like?