The P-Word Podcast: Beyond “The Talk”
Science-based, honest conversations about youth, media, and healthy development.
Young people are growing up in a world saturated with hypersexualized media and easily accessible pornography — and it’s having far-reaching consequences for their safety and well-being. For many adults, even saying the word “pornography” feels taboo. That silence makes it harder to address its impact on young people. How do we change course?
The P-Word Podcast from Culture Reframed brings together leading scholars, frontline professionals, parents, and advocates to break the silence and provide background, analysis, and innovative ideas on what is happening in our pornified culture. Grounded in research and a public health framework, this podcast helps parents, educators, and youth-serving professionals understand how exposure to pornography can affect young people.
Beyond the conversation, each episode explores how we can work together to help create safer digital environments for youth, including support for stronger protections such as age verification, thoughtful platform regulation and design, and collective action — helping the next generation develop healthy, respectful, and egalitarian views of relationships, sex, and intimacy.
Episode 1: Unpacking a Massive Social Experiment
In the debut episode of Culture Reframed’s podcast, Dr. Gail Dines and Dr. Mandy Sanchez explore one of the biggest social experiments of our time: how hypersexualized content, social media, influencer culture, and algorithms are no longer separate conversations — they exist within the same digital ecosystem, shaping how young people understand sex, relationships, consent, intimacy, and themselves. The conversation introduces a public health approach to address the harms of explicit content, emphasizing early education, digital media literacy, and the critical role of parents, educators, and communities.
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