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- Title
Self-Regulating or Supervised Boys?: Young Masculinity and Sexuality in Online Pornography Filter Debates.
- Authors
Gottzén, Lucas
- Abstract
This article analyzes debates about online pornography filters and youth in the Swedish press between 2016 and 2020, focusing on the depiction of boys and young men. Critics of filtering software argued that boys could self-regulate if they were provided better sex education and if parents communicated with them about pornography. In contrast, advocates posited that boys are incapable of developing healthy sexuality because online pornography is a powerful drug that leads to addiction and contributes to a rape culture. As boys were considered unable to get a filter "in their head," proponents argued for disciplinary supervision through software in schools.
- Subjects
INTERNET pornography; FILTERING software; RAPE culture; MASCULINITY; YOUNG men; BOYS; SEX education; VIRTUAL communities
- Publication
Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
2375-9240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/bhs.2023.160103