“Nineteen year old Matt remembers first looking at pornographic magazines and videos when he was in his early teens. These days Matt always has it on him and can access it whenever he pleases via his mobile phone or computer. He reckons there is no real point in paying for porn anymore because it’s all over the internet and it’s free. Although admitting he did go through a time of near addiction to porn Matt says ‘I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a healthy sex interest – I’m not running home everyday watching it 24/7. I think you can be a very normal person living a normal life and still have a healthy interest in porn.'”

This is from The Hack Half Hour program. If you have access to the ABC2 channel, make sure you check out The Hack Half Hour on Monday nights at 8:30pm. It’s the TV version of the current affairs show Hack on Triple J. You can also watch t he episodes online here.

A couple of weeks ago they did an episode on porn and boy did I learn a thing or two. First of all, someone really has to update “Where Did I Come From “. Sex has become far more tricky than just special cuddles. Now when we explain sex to our children, we’ll have to warn them about not being photographed nude or in a sexual act by someone on their phone.

Dear lord……remember when you were in high school and a girl’s reputation could be ruined by a RUMOUR that she had done something or other with someone or other? Well now what happens is that someone photographs or films her doing something (often the person she’s doing it with is the one who sneakily films it with his phone) and then sends it to his mates. Who send it to their mates. And so on.

Girls lives are being ruined. Their confidence, reputation and trust destroyed. They’re being driven out of schools by the shame. How do we protect our kids from being exploited like this as they get older and start to fool around? And how do we make them understand the permanence of such images when they think it’s a good idea to send a raunchy picture to their boyfriend or girlfriend?

And have you heard about Youporn? This is like Youtube but porn, where regular people upload their sexual exploits to the site to share with other people.

Oh man…..I need a good lie down. With my clothes on.