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Big Brother 2012 house mate, single Dad, actor, singer, personal trainer, stripper, adult entertainer, public speaker, activist, columnist, presenter and former secondary school teacher. Canadaphile, Francophile, atheist, fighter for freedom and tolerance, real child protection, sexual liberalism, European integration and abolition of the monarchy.

Sunday 15 April 2012

YOUR QUESTIONS: Porn gives children a distorted view about sex which can be damaging later on. Also many parents may lose faith in you, if you don't respect their children's innocence, because you are basically saying that you think it's OK for kids to access porn.

Many things give children a distorted view on life: mainstream media, fairy tales, religion, music, fashion, films.... At least in porn they see what sex actually is rather than seeing a Hollywood representation of it which is often wholly unrealistic and setting false expectations in our minds. I thought sex would be like how it was in the scene in Top Gun. its not, believe me.
Firstly, no-one is 'innocent'. Human behaviour is complex and we become sexual beings and sexually aware at very young ages, porn or no porn. Children are not the innocent little beings we want them to be. We have to deal with the REALITIES of young people's sexuality and not try to create some fantasy existence that we wish to keep them in. I think its absolutely fine for anyone to view anyone having sex. SEX is normal. We should be normalising it MORE, not less. Demystifying it, not shrouding it in greater clouds of mystery and suspense. That attitude is far more damaging to our young people as comparisons with our European neighbours demonstrate. The UK has the highest rates of STI and pregnancy amongst young people in the whole of Western Europe. The Netherlands has the lowest. Young people in both countries have equal access to pornography. The difference is national attitude to sex, an open-ness about it and a perception of it as being something we should embrace and treat as normal. The problem is NOT porn.

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