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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Gaby Hinsliff

‘It stopped me having sex for a year’: why Generation Z is turning its back on sex-positive feminism

Watching pornography from the age of 11 had “destroyed” her brain, said Billie Eilish in December.
Billie Eilish said recently that watching pornography from the age of 11 had ‘destroyed’ her brain. Photograph: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Spotify

Lala likes to think of herself as pretty unshockable. On her popular Instagram account @lalalaletmeexplain, she dishes out anonymous sex and dating advice on everything from orgasms to the etiquette of sending nude pictures. Nor is the 40-year-old sex educator and former social worker (Lala is a pseudonym) shy of sharing her own dating experiences as a single woman.

But even she was perturbed by a recent question, from a woman with a seven-year-old daughter who had caught her new partner watching “stepdaughter” porn involving teenage girls. Was that a red flag?

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