I think this works, it seems accessible to me but I don’t know about others yet so I next week I am going to trial this making process with a couple of people and see. The images are quite interesting and certainly people don’t recognise it as porn by the end of the process. I don’t know yet if the intervention would then keep those images or people can take them if they wanted or is there a way to collate them into something bigger and if so what exactly?
Dr Emily Rothmans porn literacy programme asks young people about the misconceptions they have about porn. This is a good start when thinking about what conversations could be had whilst using this artistic process, although I think I would adapt them somewhat to be centred for parents more depending non who’s involved in the intervention. The 5 main misconceptions they discuss are:
- Pornography is a lucrative and high profile career.
- Porn gives you “how-to” instructions on sex
- According to porn, there’s no need to communicate clearly or ask for permission in sex.
- With sex, it’s normal for men to be more dominant and for women to be more submissive.
- Sending and receiving nudes of other teens is no big deal.
It’s important to consider that when talking to people you want to try and get honest dialogue so people aren’t saying what they think they should but equally not to make them feel bad about their consumption of porn either. It’s always going to seem like this project is anti-porn and that’s not the case so a lot of thought and prep needs to go into this part of the intervention. More on that once I have worked out the creative process a little further.