PJ Vogt
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And that when you put these two things together, you get something that has a kind of nuclear energy to it. That's exactly right.
It's what's so confusing about teenagers. They're not kids. They're not adults. They can be deeply intelligent. They can shock you with their thoughtfulness. There's a teen in social studies who works at a call center, supporting other teenagers who are having a hard time online. Another is just deeply obsessed with trying to get into a good college. These would-be adults, they're on their paths.
It's what's so confusing about teenagers. They're not kids. They're not adults. They can be deeply intelligent. They can shock you with their thoughtfulness. There's a teen in social studies who works at a call center, supporting other teenagers who are having a hard time online. Another is just deeply obsessed with trying to get into a good college. These would-be adults, they're on their paths.
It's what's so confusing about teenagers. They're not kids. They're not adults. They can be deeply intelligent. They can shock you with their thoughtfulness. There's a teen in social studies who works at a call center, supporting other teenagers who are having a hard time online. Another is just deeply obsessed with trying to get into a good college. These would-be adults, they're on their paths.
It's just that the internet is often steering them in the wrong direction. We're going to take a short break. When we come back, pornography. Welcome back to the show. The second part of Social Studies I wanted to tell you about has to do mostly with teenagers' relationship to pornography and to sexually explicit content online more broadly.
It's just that the internet is often steering them in the wrong direction. We're going to take a short break. When we come back, pornography. Welcome back to the show. The second part of Social Studies I wanted to tell you about has to do mostly with teenagers' relationship to pornography and to sexually explicit content online more broadly.
It's just that the internet is often steering them in the wrong direction. We're going to take a short break. When we come back, pornography. Welcome back to the show. The second part of Social Studies I wanted to tell you about has to do mostly with teenagers' relationship to pornography and to sexually explicit content online more broadly.
Watching Social Studies actually confirmed a suspicion I've had for a while, which is that we just don't talk about porn nearly enough. It's a part of our culture, and culture, we know, shapes our real-life behavior. And every other piece of culture we watch online, whether it's reality TV shows, White Lotus, even individual SNL skits, just gets endlessly dissected, overly dissected.
Watching Social Studies actually confirmed a suspicion I've had for a while, which is that we just don't talk about porn nearly enough. It's a part of our culture, and culture, we know, shapes our real-life behavior. And every other piece of culture we watch online, whether it's reality TV shows, White Lotus, even individual SNL skits, just gets endlessly dissected, overly dissected.
Watching Social Studies actually confirmed a suspicion I've had for a while, which is that we just don't talk about porn nearly enough. It's a part of our culture, and culture, we know, shapes our real-life behavior. And every other piece of culture we watch online, whether it's reality TV shows, White Lotus, even individual SNL skits, just gets endlessly dissected, overly dissected.
Its politics wade across far too many blogs and podcasts. But the values and culture of porn, like anything else, change. Except here, we're all a little too shy to remark on it. We couldn't talk about what we've seen without revealing that we've watched it at all. So we mostly just don't. New York Magazine, The Ringer, they're not analyzing the most streamed porn this week.
Its politics wade across far too many blogs and podcasts. But the values and culture of porn, like anything else, change. Except here, we're all a little too shy to remark on it. We couldn't talk about what we've seen without revealing that we've watched it at all. So we mostly just don't. New York Magazine, The Ringer, they're not analyzing the most streamed porn this week.
Its politics wade across far too many blogs and podcasts. But the values and culture of porn, like anything else, change. Except here, we're all a little too shy to remark on it. We couldn't talk about what we've seen without revealing that we've watched it at all. So we mostly just don't. New York Magazine, The Ringer, they're not analyzing the most streamed porn this week.
It's somehow the only thing that we don't want to recap. So social studies is one of the first places where I've seen a group of people, teenagers, talking about the porn they watch and their feelings about it in public. You learn a lot fast. Like for instance, how it's become somewhat routine for these high school students to sell pictures of their bare feet online to adult strangers.
It's somehow the only thing that we don't want to recap. So social studies is one of the first places where I've seen a group of people, teenagers, talking about the porn they watch and their feelings about it in public. You learn a lot fast. Like for instance, how it's become somewhat routine for these high school students to sell pictures of their bare feet online to adult strangers.
It's somehow the only thing that we don't want to recap. So social studies is one of the first places where I've seen a group of people, teenagers, talking about the porn they watch and their feelings about it in public. You learn a lot fast. Like for instance, how it's become somewhat routine for these high school students to sell pictures of their bare feet online to adult strangers.
In the documentary, you see one of the teenagers Lauren's been following, Ivy. Ivy's lying on her bed, scrolling her phone. She encounters a foot fetish video on Instagram. And in the next screen, we just see how many accounts there are. On Instagram, on X, offering to buy feet pics.
In the documentary, you see one of the teenagers Lauren's been following, Ivy. Ivy's lying on her bed, scrolling her phone. She encounters a foot fetish video on Instagram. And in the next screen, we just see how many accounts there are. On Instagram, on X, offering to buy feet pics.
In the documentary, you see one of the teenagers Lauren's been following, Ivy. Ivy's lying on her bed, scrolling her phone. She encounters a foot fetish video on Instagram. And in the next screen, we just see how many accounts there are. On Instagram, on X, offering to buy feet pics.
There's demand, and Meta's algorithm and X's are bringing the marketplace to the teens of Pali High, who can be, if they want, suppliers.