The campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to promote appropriate affective-sexual education and the risks of early access to pornographic content.

The Minister for Equality, Ana Redondo, at the presentation of the ‘Let’s talk about pornography’ campaign, together with the Secretary of State for Equality, Aina Calvo.

The Minister for Equality, Ana Redondo, at a press conference, accompanied by the Secretary of State for Equality, Aina Calvo, presented the institutional campaign ‘Let’s talk about pornography’, which focuses on promoting positive affective-sexual education.

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Ana Redondo

The campaign seeks to raise awareness of the risks associated with early access to pornographic content and points out that at least six out of ten adolescents watch pornography, starting their consumption at the age of 8, with some studies even indicating that it is as high as nine out of ten. In addition, it also points out that 90% of parents believe that their children do not watch pornography.

Through this campaign, the Ministry of Equality seeks to encourage intergenerational conversation and to remove the problem of porn from obscurantism, replacing it with responsible, quality sexual and emotional education.

Ana Redondo stressed the Government’s concern about the consumption of pornography by children and adolescents. At least six out of ten adolescents admit to watching pornography.

The minister insisted that the aim is to bring the consumption of porn by children and adolescents out of the shadows so that it ceases to be a taboo subject and becomes an object of social debate. On the other hand, she has appealed for dialogue in the most intimate sphere, that is, between parents and adults with children in their care. ‘Our children and adolescents are exposed to explicit, violent, dehumanised pornographic content that perpetuates patriarchal gender stereotypes that humiliate women’, added Ana Redondo, who assured that “this cannot be their first approach to sex, precisely at an age when they are developing their sexuality, their relationships and the construction of their identity”.
Let’s talk about pornography’ aims to tackle a negative reality with a positive attitude, intergenerational rapprochement and dialogue. The Secretary of State for Equality, Aina Calvo, pointed out that 90% of pornography accessed by minors has real violent content and that 56% of young people say that porn influences their sexual relationships and consider pornography to be a ‘sex school’.