Porn: is it different for girls?
The majority of adolescents with access to the internet have watched sexually explicit materials on the internet. However, the stigma attached to girls and their experiences of pornographic materials differs vastly from that of their male peers.Cosimo Marco Scarcelli of the University of Bologna interviewed dozens of Italian teenagers to explore how adolescents – and in particular girls – consume pornography, how they do (or do not) use it and why, and what role sexual content has in their everyday lives. Scarcelli discovered that pornography is used ‘socially’ by adolescents; it is