A workshop in Napier will highlight issues with young people's access to modern pornography and how to address it.
Sex Ed By Porn? will be run by Australian Maree Crabbe, who co-ordinates a community education project, Reality & Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality. It will be held at Napier Boys' High School today.
The workshop is aimed at anyone who works with young people to help develop their understanding on how pornography is influencing young people's sexual experience and behaviour.
Ms Crabbe said she would be talking about how young people are exposed to high rates of easily accessible pornography that is very different to what many adults realise.
Most of the pornography has high levels of aggression in it, particularly against women, which is impacting young people's sexual expectations and experiences, she said.