What to learn from Porn?

I am writing a lesson plan looking at how the media (TV, Film and Porn) distorts our image of Sex and Relationships. First half of the lesson is focusing on relationships and seeing how soaps, sit coms, and rom coms portray them. Second half is focusing on how Porn portrays sex.

One of my exercises will be handing out a collection of statements about what people can learn from porn. Their task will be to then decide if that think a lesson learnt from porn is true, false or some where in between. This is my list so far. Please let me know what you think, can you learn all this from porn and could you separate true from false

It is normal for women to have hairless vaginas
All men have big penises
Sex is better when it is fast, forceful and rough
Anal sex is clean and simple
Penis shape can vary from one person to another
Nipples can get erect when people aroused
Males normally ejaculate about half a cup of semen
Sex is possible all over the place (not just in a bed)
Most people don't use condoms
Boobs are meant to be big
Sex normally lasts for hours
Real men always stay fully erect in the presence of a naked person they are attracted to
All women enjoy threesomes
There are hundreds of sexual positions
Sex normally happens under very bright light
Labia are normally quiet small

I hope this exercise will help young people start to recognise that what they could see in porn is not likely to match up to their own current or future sex lives.

EDIT: just turned this list into the handouts I will be using. Including linking the lessons to possible consequences. PDF version of handouts

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update event and link to a few resources I looked at during my research.

PowerPoint Presentation

WHO definition of sexual health

Fpa Sexual Wellbeing and Pleasure document

Youtube videos

50 Shades of Grey Trailer

Home office rape prevention advert

Sex+ Consent video

Background reading

Fetish Sex: A Complete Guide to Sexual Fetishes

50 Shades of Grey reading by a Sex and Relationship Educator

and if you are super keen Fifty Shades of Grey

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Blindfish RSE

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