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Arielle Domb

OPINION - Young men are turning off porn. Think that's a good thing? You're wrong

It’s 2012. I’m with a group of school friends in someone’s bedroom and someone is passing around a laptop, which is blaring something disgusting (and probably illegal) on Pornhub. Several people in the room have not yet had sex, yet everyone has seen sex — just online.

The male gazey stereotypes — submissive stepdaughters and school girls — of the most visited porn site in the UK have already infiltrated the sexual politics of our orthodox Jewish high school. The witch-hunt whispers about girls who still have pubic hair or ‘weirdly’ shaped labia have begun.

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