Digital media platform Amaze has launched an at-home sex ed video series on Facebook that teaches children home from school during the coronavirus crisis that watching porn is normal.
In an email sent to subscribers, AmazeĀ announced:
In light of COVID-19, weāreĀ rollingĀ out an at-home sex ed seriesĀ via our Facebook page. Every weekday weāll share helpful videos, infographics, and resources to help spark important conversations at home. This week weāre all about general framing to prepare you for conversations, and then in forthcoming weeks weāll dig deeper into specific topics. Also, be sure toĀ checkĀ outĀ My AMAZE custom playlistsĀ (which offer a great way to engage with kids at home!) and ourĀ parentĀ resources.
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Amaze touts it offers children āmedically accurateā and āage-appropriateā information. Among the organizationās offerings for at-home sex ed is a new series called #AskAMAZE.
āOur firstĀ videoĀ covers the much asked question,Ā is it normal to watch porn?ā Amaze announces, and, in the video, answers the question with a resounding āYes!ā
āLots of people watch porn,ā the narrator continues. āAfter all, itās right there and itās free. And anyway, many people are curious about this sex stuff.ā
The only negative aspect of porn Amaze mentions in the video is that āporn is not real.ā
āItās just a fantasy like superheroes movies,ā the narrator explains. āBodies donāt look like those in porn movies.ā
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AĀ partnerĀ of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which promotes comprehensive sex education (CSE), Amaze.org describes itself as a platform that desires young people to be āsupported and affirmedā and envisions a world in which āthe adults in their lives communicate openly and honestly with them about puberty, reproduction, relationships, sex and sexuality.ā
On Amazeās website is aĀ New York TimesĀ op-ed by Peggy Orenstein from March 2016 thatĀ assailsĀ abstinence or risk-avoidance sex education, the public health approach to sex ed.
āPresident Obama is trying ā finally ā in his 2017 budget to remove all federal funding for abstinence education,ā Orenstein wrote, advocating for speaking to children often about sex, to ānormalizeā it, and āintegrate it into everyday life.ā
In a post about Amazeās new sex ed at-home series, Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI)Ā observed:
Is this what amaze.org considers āhonest sex education?ā Telling kids that itās perfectly normal to watch porn doesnāt sound medically accurate or age-appropriate to me, and researchers agree.Ā StudiesĀ have shown that porn is highly addictive and has negative and detrimentalĀ effectsĀ on theĀ brain and behaviors of youth.
MFI notes that Culture Reframed, an organization thatĀ addressesĀ hypersexualized media and pornography as āthe public health crisis of the digital age,ā asserts boys exposed to porn are more inclined to adopt attitudes that normalize sexual harassment and violence toward women.
Similarly, girls exposed to porn are increasingly likely to participate in high-risk sexual behavior and develop problems such as eating disorders and drug abuse.
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The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) alsoĀ observesĀ children exposed to porn are inclined to engage in sex at younger ages, opening them up to higher risk of developing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and pregnancy.
Like risk-avoidance sex ed, NCOSE advocates for a āpublic health approachā to pornography.
Such an approach has proven āeffective with other major problems from smoking, to lead poisoning, to HIV/AIDS,ā the organization states. āLeadership and an investment are needed in a multi-disciplined, multi-pronged approach to be effective against a well-funded industry in order to prevent and combat the harms.ā
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