Porn: What's the Harm? Page #4

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but I mean, I could be five

and could've gotten through to that.

It just comes up immediately.

OK, you found it,

but you still clicked it.

Do you know what I mean?

That's what it was for me.

Now you know how many kids have

seen it... Yeah. ..how do you feel?

I don't feel any different.

I definitely wouldn't change it.

I'd do it again if I could

go back in time to do it.

I didn't put that much thought into

it when I did it in the first place

and I do a lot of stuff in life, just

wanting to do something different.

# She came closer

# I popped up

like bread in a toaster... #

'Skepta was happy

to appear in the video

'and for it to show real sex,

but I'm curious

'as to why he wasn't prepared

to be filmed having sex himself.'

I think there's a quite lot

of reasons. That's probably

why I can't pinpoint what it is.

Well, I'd love some of them.

One is because I'm me.

That is definitely one.

It's because of who I am.

What about you? Um...

Like my mum would be very upset

if I did it. Why? Because...

I know my mum, innit? So I know

she wouldn't like me to do that.

A quick search on the internet

shows just how shocked some

young fans were by Skepta's video.

LOUD GASPS:

Oh, my God!

'This girl was filmed on webcam as

she watched it for the first time.'

Eugh!

# She knows I've got this

Open it up like a locksmith... #

What the hell is wrong

with this man?!

First of all, what I would say,

yeah, straightaway,

this girl's an attention seeker,

definitely.

So are you!

Look at your porno video.

# All over the house

All over the house... #

'I met up with Naomi, the girl who

found Skepta's video so shocking.'

Eugh! How can you be doing that?!

SHE LAUGHS:

'She told me her friend had

sent her the link to the video

'without telling her

it had explicit sex in it.

'Naomi posted her reaction online.'

Do you remember that reaction? Do

you want to tell me a bit about it?

Yeah, that reaction was genuine.

I was like, "What the actual hell?"

Like I expected a music video,

and I got a porno and, like,

if I'd knew it was going to be

a porno, I'd have put headphones in,

so that it wouldn't be out loud

for my mum to hear.

It was just shocking.

When I showed the video to Skepta,

he felt like you were

just attention seeking.

Were you just attention seeking

or was that genuine?

I was shocked.

I was too shocked to hold it all in.

My mouth... The way it was

open the majority of the video,

it was literally like,

"Oh, my God, this is nasty!"

What he was trying to do was

almost as if he knew controversy

would come with it.

Therefore, whether it's good or bad,

you're going to get attention.

# She knows I've got this

# I'm-a open it up

like a locksmith... #

But despite such hostile reactions,

Skepta says he still doesn't

regret his porn music video.

He's says it's up to parents

to educate their kids

about the internet.

These parents need to take time out,

get off the couch and leave the

Kardashians and the X-Factors alone

and go and chill with your child.

Why do children of today connect more

with me than their own parents?

You shouldn't watch my video

or you shouldn't watch a video

and not feel comfortable to

go back to your dad or your mum

and say, "What's going on here?"

# Let me show you something

you won't forget

# Just hold me around my neck... #

That was really intense,

because I know him

and he's someone that I respect

and really like and it was a video

that was very poignant to me

when it first came out,

because I felt uncomfortable

about its existence,

knowing the audience

that were going to watch it.

Even though I believe he didn't have

any intention for kids to see that,

and he didn't think it would

become as viral as it did,

you have to think, with our platform

and our responsibility,

you have to think,

you have to be responsible.

In our survey,

we wanted to find out more

about the impact that online

pornography has on teenagers.

And we discovered

there's a massive difference

in the views and experiences

of young men and young women.

There are clear gender differences

in how young people

first see pornography,

how they feel when they first see it,

why they look for it,

how often they look for it,

and how it affects

what they expect from sex.

In our survey, 30% of the boys said

the first time they saw porn,

they'd looked for it on purpose,

compared to just 12% of girls.

And nearly 20% of girls told us

they have never seen porn online,

compared to only 4% of boys.

And those differences

between girls and boys persist.

So a quarter of young men say they

go looking for porn all the time,

so let's say every couple of days.

A quarter of young men say that

they look for porn some of the time,

so at least once a week,

and 50% of women say they never

go looking for online pornography.

It seems one reason for that

could be that young women

don't like what they see in porn.

In our survey,

229 of our 1,000 young people

told us there is

nothing good about porn.

Almost three quarters of them

were women.

'At the Salmon Centre

in South London,

'they provide a space

for teenagers to meet,

'let off steam and get support.

And as I discover,

'some of the older boys

have strong views about porn.'

Why do you think young people

look at porn?

Develop their understanding of sex.

So you think they learn about it?

Mm-hm. Some schools,

you have sex education, innit?

So it's just like verbally

explaining it to you,

whereas, if you were to watch porn,

you can see what's actually going on.

Sometimes, it helps.

It's like theory and practical.

And where do you guys find porn?

Where do people...?

Where do young people find porn?

Internet or like...

You know they have them vine videos

and, you know, they have girls...

You know? Doing what? Like, you know,

doing sexual things, innit?

And people just click on it.

When you watch one link, it leads to

another link and it just carries on.

Do you think girls and boys

see porn differently?

I think that it affects boys more.

In what way?

In a sexual way. It makes you

more eager to have sex. Yeah.

When you watch porn, you want sex

straight away. Trust me. Honest.

Why do you think girls

watch pornography?

Do you think it's

the same reason as why boys do?

It's hard to see girls

watching porn, man. How come?

You'd normally, stereotypically,

you'd associate porn with boys,

like...

I've watched porn with a girl

and it just made it awkward.

She didn't want to

talk about it or nothing.

Really? Yeah.

And do you think it's good for girls

to watch porn or not good? No.

Why do you not think

it's good for girls?

Most girls find it disgusting. It's

unattractive. They're like, "Eugh!"

Schools in the UK don't have

to cover issues like pornography

in sex and relationships classes,

so most don't do so.

Which makes this workshop

for 14 and 15-year-old girls

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