Porn lessons for school children

[Aggers]

At my age, I suppose it doesn't matter one bit what I think about it.

The response would probably be that I should "move with the times". God forbid it.

I honestly think that it is too late now for anyone to do much about the problem. There can be no doubt that the Information Technology revolution has changed almost every aspect of social life. There are benefits, of course, such as our VV social networking site, but the Internet, for all its benefits, has undoubtedly opened up a Pandora's Box of evil, and I think that no-one really knows what to do about it.

I am just astonished that so much change could take place in my lifetime, and I feel so sorry for today's youngsters.

[debih]

I honestly think that it is too late now for anyone to do much about the problem. There can be no doubt that the Information Technology revolution has changed almost every aspect of social life. There are benefits, of course, such as our VV social networking site, but the Internet, for all its benefits, has undoubtedly opened up a Pandora's Box of evil, and I think that no-one really knows what to do about it.

I am just astonished that so much change could take place in my lifetime, and I feel so sorry for today's youngsters.

I completely agree Aggers. Things have changed so much over the past two decades - some things for the good and some for the worse.

Sadly pornography, etc is out there and very easily accessible nowadays and because of that parents and teachers have to react and deal with it.

[Workingman]

Pornography is not new.

The Pharaohs worshipped it and used it in their passage to eternal life to please their Gods. Roman orgies were commonplace and porn was often depicted in their art and mosaics. Even the Victorians had their "What the butler saw" shows. It has always been with us.

What changed, and this goes back to the Victorians, is the way sex and porn was dealt with. What goes on behind closed doors stays behind closed doors. Keep it quiet, keep it secret.

IMO Victorian attitudes to porn are part of today's problem, not the availability of it. It is out there, as it always has been, and we need to deal with it.

[Kaz]

I have no objection whatsoever to porn in its place - which is most definitely with adults! The net has made it impossible to shield children and that is the problem

[Suff]

Sorry been busy and without car too, which is tiring.

I understand what everyone is saying about the fact that it is out there and it is difficult to shield the children from. However the promoting of knowledge about it to hormone driven children from 11 - 15, imho, has no place, either in education or any other part of society.

If they want to teach about it, do it with those who are legally allowed to have sex. Not with those who are underage. I'd say that making parents significantly aware of the Friday food avoidance issue with teenage children is a much better use of time than introducing these children to things they "may" not already know.

The TV made a big case for this before the 9pm watershed. Stating they had a "place" in children's social education. In fact all they did was to sexualise two generations of children. Perhaps we should examine the motives of media bosses who chose to sexualise the lives of children under 16????

Simply put, I don't believe this belongs in the curriculum any more than religion does. And both of these subjects have been around since before the Ark....

[Fugitive]

The Christian Victorians defaced all the carvings and art showing anything sexual in the Egyptian temples. Chiselled all the phallic symbols away in the tombs, on pillars in temples. Everywhere!

[pederito1]

There is one pristine phallus fully erect in Abu Simbel, Fugi.

[Fugitive]

There is one pristine phallus fully erect in Abu Simbel, Fugi.

Yes Pederito, been there and seen it And there's another in Aswan on Elephantine Island in the Nile. That was funny because we went round these ruins on our own without a guide and got bothered by a local man who kept pointing at it telling us his was bigger-so we had to tell him to go away. We had to give him money just to get rid of him