‘Teens Hooked on Porn‘ is a documentary aimed at those who remember a time before the web, and who choose to believe it’s making the world increasingly sexual. It underscores the contrasting opinions of those born into the pre and post web era, at its zenith in the UK where hardcore material only became legal as the Internet exploded, forever gluing the appearance of porn to the rise of digital culture together in many minds.
The assumption here is that any teenager who looks at porn has a problem, and it’s never questioned (by anyone but the kids themselves). There’s no mention of any connection between adolescence and a perfectly healthy need to wank (unequaled by anything but the need to breathe in my case). Or of any differences between healthy and unhealthy porn.
There’s lots of worrying from parents dealing unsuccessfully with a seismic shift in the availability of explicit sexual material, and unable to maintain the fantasy of perfectly innocent children who become adults at eighteen without prior sexual exploration. They are quietly freaking out.
When they mention XXXChurch and introduce the cheesy psychologist you’re officially allowed to start laughing.
You’d never see a program suggesting adults limit their interest in music to playing an instrument, but take no time to listen to recordings or watch other people perform, because music is seen as beautiful, edifying and good. As long as sex isn’t seen that way, any pleasure taken in it will be presented as at best eccentricity and at worst a problem. Of course that view makes for less shocking documentaries.
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Man, that’s bad.
I wasn’t even able to get past the 3 minute mark before the rampant speculation and moralizing reached the “too much” mark.
Rich – I’m just the messenger. It’s worth checking out, if only to get to the ‘is he real?’ guitar playing youth pastor.