Laurence Fleury

r, there has been a growing call

for a more holistic, strengths-based approach in addressing young people’s

sexual health through positive youth development (PYD) and supporting

PYD developmental theories including the Selection, Optimization and

Compensation (SOC) model (Baltes, 1997; Brindis et al., 2020). PYD has

been described as a holistic

the use of

sexually explicit media (e.g., pornography or sexting) in sexuality education;however, these predominantly focused on the legal consequences of distrib sexually explicit images (SIECUS, 2020). To fill these gaps, recent global and U.S.-based guidance on sexuality education has moved to include pornography as a key topic for young people

Hardy et al. (2013) reported that 68% of adolescents in

the U.S. had ever been unintentionally exposed to pornography