Pornworld: Why Pornography Is A Healthy Part of Our Culture

People throughout the world have an uneasy relationship with pornography.

We love it! I mean, obviously we love it. With millions (billions?) of porn-content internet views per day, maybe some of you have even loved it today. Several times.

And we fear it. We hate it. It's the subject of taboo, anxiety, and stigma. Porn is attacked regularly by legislators, religious fundamentalists, neuroscientists, and many feminists.

What that boils down to: Everyone is looking at porn, but not many people know how to stop feeling ashamed about their porn use, how to stop hiding it, or how to start enjoying something that brings them pleasure.

To bridge the gap between our porn use and our feelings about porn, we need to stop demonizing pornography and emphasize instead the positive functions porn serves in our culture. Why do we need porn? What's it doing for us as viewers? What can it teach us about sex and sexuality, not to mention oppression, repression, and everyday life?

That's why I'm offering this one-session live online course about what porn teaches us about sex, and the positive effects porn has had in my life as a viewer and my eight years of experience as a sexual rights activist and porn performer.

In this course, you'll learn:

• What porn tells us about sex and sexuality.
• How porn helps people in marginalized communities.
• What makes porn porn, anyway?
• How pornography can help us deprogram society’s harmful messages about sex and intimacy.
• Why we need more open discussion about porn.
• What being in porn is like, and why appearing in porn or doing sex work can be an act of positive civil disobedience.
• And more!

The course starts with a live webcast lecture by me, and the second half is a Q&A, where I'll engage with you and your questions.

Can't wait till the class starts? Here are a few of my many essays on pornography

What I Want To Know Is Why You Hate Porn Stars

Why Are We Afraid To Talk about Gay Porn?

Porn-ing Your Way Through College 101: A Syllabus

Registration:

There are three kinds of registration:

INDIVIDUAL registration includes individual access to the course and the Q&A, as well as a link to a recording of the course for 90 days if you can't attend. $15.00

PLUS registration includes the Individual registration, plus a 20 minute, one-on-one Skype (video or audio, you decide) follow-up meeting with me to talk more about the course topics, and ask to any questions you might have after the course is over (or that you feel may be more personal in nature). $65.00

GOLD registration includes everything in the Individual AND plus registration; as well as a list of Conner Habib quotes on sex; and a unique, personalized, short video sent from me to you. The Gold registration is limited to fifteen participants. $150.00

Practical stuff:

You must be at least 18 to sign up for this course. Signing up for this course indicates your statement of age.

When you sign up, you'll receive a confirmation email. 24 hours before the course starts, you'll receive an email from me with a link to the webinar and instrcutions on how to enter. The process is simple and easy. Just a few clicks.

For GROUP REGISTRATION (ie, more than one person in the room) please contact me at connerhabibsocial at gmail for a group rate.

If you can't attend the day of the course, remember, you can always watch the course after. You don't have to be able to attend the course to sign up or have access to the recording. And if you sign up for PLUS or GOLD registration, you'll get all the follow-up perks as well!