Health committee  Yes. Just adding to exactly what Dr. Gahagan has just said, I don't start from the place that pornography is a toxic medium. There's a huge field of evidence on this. There's 40 years of research on this, and the findings are inconclusive and contradictory. Specifically in my stu

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Very much along the lines of what we have already been saying, the idea for this study originated out of hearing a lot of anecdotal evidence about how youth were using pornography as a kind of mode for education, in an alternative where they didn't see any other area to learn abo

Health committee  No, thank you.

Health committee  In terms of focusing on the industry, I think the main message for me that came out of this research is that there is certainly an industry that is producing certain types of videos, or, I would say, an overwhelming proportion of one type of video. The connection is that they are

Health committee  I'll yield to Dr. Gahagan on this one.

Health committee  I can't add anything to that. Thank you.

Health committee  I can speak to how we operationalize this definition within our study, because I think it is a really key distinction. The way we understood pornography in our study was that it was looking broadly at materials that depicted sexual activities in unconcealed ways as a way to creat

Health committee  I would say it's pretty consistent to some of the other.... As has been said, for youth, and especially for college-aged men, we put exposure to these materials at around 70% to 90%. For college-aged women, we generally estimate a bit lower, at about 20% to 40%. In terms of the

Health committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to speak here today. It is an honour. I'm speaking to you today about revisualizing porn, how young adults' consumption of sexually explicit Internet movies can inform approaches to Canadian sexual health promotion. I conducted this resea