Ok Class, The Last Subject Of The Day Will Be Porn, So Take Notes
January 27, 2010 No Comments
Children should be taught about porn in schools, says a XXX director.
Think it’ll never happen?
With new reports about the effect of porn on young minds being released, the idea seems less odd and more urgent.
Justin Ribeiro dos Santos is a well dressed, sophisticated porn director, according to the Times, and he thinks your kids should learn more about porn.
He has no issue with the morality of the industry itself. In fact, he explains that porn is like cheese, merely a commodity.
But he is worried about children stumbling onto porn: “Before they have touched another person sexually or entered into any kind of sexual relationship, many children have seen hundreds of adult strangers having sex.
“Kids know a lot about the dangers of drug abuse. We should say to kids, ‘Porn is a vice and, like drugs or alcohol or overeating, it can get out of control.’ Parents need to join forces with schools because all this needs to be talked about openly.”
He says the internet is the problem. Children can’t accidentally stumble upon sexual material any other way, and children seeking sexual material often have difficulty convincing the owners of a sex store to sell them X rated material.
New research seems to back him up. The report entitled “Harms of Pornography Exposure Among Children and Young People” by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society found that with exposure to porn boys are :
- more likely to engage in casual sex
- less likely to form successful relationships
- more likely to believe there is nothing wrong with sexually harassing a girl
- more likely to believe that it is ok to pin a girl down
“There is compelling evidence from around the world that pornography has negative effects on individuals and communities,” said Michael Flood, who conducted the research.
“We know it is shaping sexual knowledge. Some people may think that is good. But porn is a very poor sex educator because it shows sex in unrealistic ways and fails to address intimacy, love, connection or romance. Often it is quite callous and hostile in its depictions of women.
“It doesn’t mean that every young person is going out to rape somebody but it does increase the likelihood that will happen.”
It is important to remember that this is less about 17 year old boys getting some satisfaction, and more about elementary school children. The images that they can stumble across, of violence or depravity, traumatize them.
“Children are not necessarily looking at porn for gratification,” said Petra Boynton, a sex educator and psychologist. “They are doing so because they are bored and not supervised. Often when children look at more extreme porn it is done for bravado so they can laugh and say how disgusting it is.”
