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 OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts