Progressive Porn - A Lecture by Carol Queen, Ph.D.
Pornography is a medium of entertainment and spectacle, not education - thought many people, especially youth, may use it to supplement lax sex education. This is one of porn’s most controversial aspects: What’s it teaching us about sexuality, gender roles, and norms? Sexologist Carol Queen, PhD, author of Exhibitionism for the Shy, founding director of San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture and longtime staffer at Good Vibrations, unpacks some of pornography’s messages and considers its impact through both a sex-positive feminist and media literacy lens. What do we want from our smut? Is that what we’re getting?