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Jennifer Pollitt, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Temple University

What ‘gooning’ reveals about intimacy in a world cordoned off by screens

Gooning usually involves streaming online pornography across multiple screens and browsers for hours at a time. Tero Vesalainen/iStock via Getty Images

Four years ago, I started a class at Temple University titled, “Social Perspectives of Digital Pornography: The Other Sex Ed,” centered on porn literacy, or what young people learn – or don’t learn – from digital porn.

I wanted to create a space to examine these issues, not from the assumption that pornography is entirely good or entirely bad, but that avoiding the conversation altogether only does harm.

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