Pornography use and recovery / PPU-A17-1
Privacy and Consent Online — Concept brief
Understand the idea behind privacy and consent online and consider whether it fits your context.
8 minutes · Handout · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Noah wants a clearer understanding of consent and privacy in digital spaces.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Digital sexual wellbeing includes consent, legality, privacy, and respect for others.
The idea
Digital sexual wellbeing includes consent, legality, privacy, and respect for others.
An ordinary example
Noah wants a clearer understanding of consent and privacy in digital spaces.
What this can look like
Prepare non-explicit questions about ethical media choices and personal privacy for a qualified educator; do not collect or share sexual material.
Check the fit
What boundary protects your rights and other people's rights? You may disagree with the framing, use fiction, or decide that this approach is not useful today.
A useful distinction
A chosen change goal and a clinical diagnosis are different questions. Address functioning, control, consent, values, and distress without assuming that sexual expression itself is pathological.
Prompts for this resource
- What part of this idea makes sense to me?
- What boundary protects your rights and other people's rights?
Conceptual background
AASECT Position on Sex Addiction — American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.