PHILADELPHIA — The students in Temple University's first-ever porn studies class arrived with memories of sex education that ranged from paltry to awkward to outright bizarre.
Francesca Ward, 21, recalled a teacher casually handing out ping-pong balls to the girls in her class in order to explain it was very easy to be date-raped with the drug GHB. Sarah Brenton, 26, remembered watching what seemed to be a Hallmark video about statutory rape and being told not to have sex, "but if you do, it should only be with someone your age."
"Porn was definitely my sex education," said Brenton, who grew up in Bucks County and said she first visited the website Pornhub surreptitiously on her iPod Touch in eighth-grade science class. In lieu of comprehensive education, she and others she knew turned to the internet.
