Talking dirty: the truth about teenage boys and porn

Out of the bedroom and onto the stage! Teenagers reveal what they really see.
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Once restricted to under-the-counter video tapes and dog-eared magazines passed covertly around the schoolyard, today pornography is freely available to anyone with an internet connection. Correspondingly we’ve seen an endless array of news stories decrying, rightly, the shocking prevalence of ‘revenge porn’, and a range of opinion pieces discussing the ‘pornification’ of contemporary culture.

But among this chorus of experts one key voice is missing: the demographic which are one of the most regular viewers of pornography – teenage boys.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts