Young children becoming 'desensitised to pornography'

[Jazzy]

Schoolchildren should be given lessons in the danger of pornography amid fears pupils as young as eight are becoming increasingly desensitised to extreme images, teachers’ leaders warned today.



Sex education lessons should include modules on porn to enable children to “recognise the abnormal nature of these sexual expectations”, it was claimed.



The Association of Teachers and Lecturers told how primary school pupils were regularly watching inappropriate films and accessing pornographic websites.



In many cases, this has led to the adoption of an increasingly “explicit vocabulary” among the youngest pupils, it emerged.



Addressing the union’s annual conference in Liverpool, teachers also told how rising numbers of sixth-formers had rushed to buy Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic novel by E. L. James, despite the fact that it gives pupils the “wrong expectations” about sex and abusive relationships.



The 160,000-strong union backed a motion calling for training for ATL members to deliver “age-appropriate” lessons on the dangers of porn as part of sex education classes.



Helen Porter, a teacher at St Gabriel’s School, Newbury, Berkshire, told the conference that frequent exposure to porn “results in desensitisation” to extreme images.



“The voyeur’s view of sex is so commonplace that it has now become normal, even for children,” she said. “Research by the LSE indicates that 90 per cent of children aged eight to 16 have viewed pornography on the internet, many of them unintentionally.



“For many young people, pornography now precedes sex and many will have seen hundreds of strangers having sex before they have any sexual contact with another person.”



In a speech, she told how girls as young as 12 were “waxing and shaving to remove any trace of pubic hair” and feeling the need to be “vajazzled” – when private parts are decorated with glitter and jewels.



“Boys don’t get away scot-free either,” she said. “I have recently discovered that men may be pejazzled or even scrotazzled.”



The ATL warned how exposure to extreme content at a young age can give children false expectations of sex as they grow up, leaving them vulnerable to abuse and leading to the breakdown of future relationships.

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Do you think teachers [font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]delivering “age-appropriate” lessons on the dangers of porn as part of sex education classes will do any good? Why or why not.

 

[seasidemike]

wow.. how as a society do we deal with this???

more kids are being educated by porn and worse yet they think that the crap they watch is normal behavior.

It is scary.

 

[DrLeftover]

I wonder if the same criteria will be applied to reality TV.

 

[Jazzy]

Simple solution, don't let children play on the computer unsupervised. Same goes for these reality shows. Parents are becoming lazy and not spending enough family time with their children. What ever happened to children playing outside instead of plopped in a chair in front of a computer?

 

[Evil Eye]

they think that the crap they watch is normal behavior.

Hold on though, if they all believe that and every new generation after them will believe that, it will be true. Normal is only a majority opinion after all.

What ever happened to children playing outside instead of plopped in a chair in front of a computer?

http://offtopix.com/topic/23655-cowboys-and-indians-more-popular-than-computer-games/

That aside, over protective parents. Fears of kidnapping and paedophilia...

Oh and more affordable technology, of course.

 

[seasidemike]

Hold on though, if they all believe that and every new generation after them will believe that, it will be true. Normal is only a majority opinion after all.

http://offtopix.com/top...computer-games/

That aside, over protective parents. Fears of kidnapping and paedophilia...

Oh and more affordable technology, of course.

it will all be sorted out anyway once the Muslims have us all living under sharia law

 

[DrLeftover]

living?

 

[Jazzy]

Wait a minute...the title says young children are becoming desensitised to pornography. Doesn't that mean they are getting bored with it?

 

[Sinon]

I wouldn't say bored. I mean, I'm desensitized to violence, in the media, the news etc. It used to shock me, now I just think meh I don't really care.



A simple solution for this particular issue though, would be hey, parents. DON'T LET YOUR KIDS ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT SUPERVISION!



The dangers of porn sounds like some kind of religious sermon.

 

[Jazzy]

The ATL warned how exposure to extreme content at a young age can give children false expectations of sex as they grow up, leaving them vulnerable to abuse and leading to the breakdown of future relationships.

Wonder where the proof of this can be found.

 

[Evil Eye]

Wonder where the proof of this can be found.

Maybe in the people who did the research

 

[Sinon]

brb showing porn to young children

 

[Evil Eye]

brb showing porn to young children

Any results?

 

[Sinon]

Yes apparently doing that is considered paedophilia. Who'da thunk it.

 

[Evil Eye]

I had my suspicions.

So much for your research, I guess.

 

[Jazzy]

Maybe in the people who did the research :tongue2:/>

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[font=tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Helen Porter, a teacher at St Gabriel’s School, Newbury, Berkshire, told the conference that frequent exposure to porn “results in desensitisation” to extreme images.[font=tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]

[font=tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Oh, you mean a teacher is an expert on all of this?

 

[Evil Eye]

No, I was insinuating that they spoke from first hand experience

 

[Sk8]

Well considering E.L. James used unsafe (and life-threatening, dangerous) examples of BDSM in her novel, I think it is a problem. Becoming meh is one thing, but there is the whole issue of sexually transmitted diseases, falling prey to sexual predators and more. Does something need to be done...? Yes; though how to do it is more the question. Obviously making more realistic (safe), and educational videos would not be the option because it wouldn't hit the fetish fans, but, eh, parents need to just start being parents.