Reading for Realness: Porn Literacies, Digital Media, and Young People.

This paper adds to recent discussions of young people's porn literacy and argues that researchers must address porn users' engagements with, and understandings of, different porn genres and practices. As part of a larger interdisciplinary project which consisted of a series of systematic reviews of...

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Publicado en:Sexuality & Culture Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 786 - 806
Autores principales: Byron, Paul, McKee, Alan, Watson, Ash, Litsou, Katerina, Ingham, Roger
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2021
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          University of Technology Sydney (School of Communication), Sydney, NSW, Australia
          University of Southampton, University Road, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK
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