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In this article, we show how encounters with pornography are increasingly presented as matters of health and well-being, but often from a standpoint of \u2018exposure and effects\u2019 that offers little in the way of understanding the significance of pornography in people\u2019s lives. We consider what our recent research on porn consumption suggests about young people\u2019s encounters and engagements with pornography \u2013 focusing on porn as an \u2018outlet\u2019, the development of porn tastes and the relation of porn to young people\u2019s developing sex lives and imaginations. 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