At a moment when digital life saturates adolescent experience, researchers at the University of Surrey are asking a quiet but consequential question: what if the way we teach young people about pornography is making them less equipped, not more? The study, led by criminologist Dr. Emily Setty, finds that England's school-based approach rests on a portrait of passive, vulnerable youth that doesn't match how teenagers actually engage with sexual media — critically, skeptically, and with genuine ethical curiosity. Rather than prohibition, the researchers propose 'safe uncertainty,' a framework th