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Pro-porn Childline film encouraging kids to google BDSM etc

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Sunkisses · 07/04/2021 16:20

Jeez, just seen this from the Safe Schools Alliance UK on twitter. Six years ago Childline produced this pro-porn film which is basically an advert for PornHub masquerading as a child protection resource. It tells children that porn is "fun" & recommends genres like BDSM to google. It's had over 3 million views in the last 6 years, and goodness knows how much it has contributed to the rape culture we are now seeing in schools. It is illegal for under 18s to view porn, and children should be taught this and the harms of pornography, not encouraged to view it with a nod, nod, wink, wink attitude.

You can view the Safe Schools Alliance UK tweet here: twitter.com/SafeSchools_UK/status/1379528765261381634

SSAUK are calling on Childline and the NSPCC (who run Childline) to take this film down.

The Government should bring in age-verification for online porn ASAP to prevent children having easy access to online porn. All the laws have been passed, and the regulatory framework is in place. The Government bottled it at the last minute in 2019 after facing pressure from the powerful porn industry. Our children deserve better.

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Sunkisses · 07/04/2021 16:42

I encourage every parent to talk to their children about the harms of porn (and to strengthen their parental filters on all their devices and wifi), but I would NEVER recommend Childline or NSPCC. I would point all parents to Gail Dine's excellent Culture Reframed programme which teaches parents how to talk to their kids about this from a feminist perspective.
www.culturereframed.org/

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MissBarbary · 07/04/2021 16:41

The video hugely underestimates what it calls "the dark side"

There is no mention of trafficking or the porn industry's links to money laundering or organised crime.

There was no consideration at all of the societal effect of the normalisation of treating other human beings as mere objects.

There was a huge minimising of the power of imagination and no consideration at all of the stimulation to be had from one's own imagination or written pornography or erotica.

It came from the unquestioned starting point that porn is fine and normal with only a cursory examination of why it might not be.
Even that cursory examination was predicated that it's only bad porn which is bad. There was no analysis at all of the harm even "good porn" causes beyond the minimal comment that too much can cause addiction.

There was no reference at all to the fact the addiction involves desensitisation.

Sunkisses · 07/04/2021 16:39

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yeahbutnaw · 07/04/2021 16:38

@FightingTheFoo

I've just read your "additional info" link and this is not pearl clutching at all. The solution to children watching porn isn't to encourage them to watch porn ffs.

/bangs head on table/

They're not encouraging children to watch porn. They are accepting the reality that:
  • most people 12+ have seen some form of pornography
  • they report that they feel depressed, have body image issues, and feel pressured to engage in certain acts after being exposed to porn.

You can either drive your head into the sand and clutch your pearls. Or you can accept the reality and TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN about it.

That's very clearly stated as the objective of the campaign.

They're not encouraging children to watch porn. Or to search for porn. That's some reach you're making.

RandomDent · 07/04/2021 16:31

Fapz?

FightingTheFoo · 07/04/2021 16:30

I've just read your "additional info" link and this is not pearl clutching at all. The solution to children watching porn isn't to encourage them to watch porn ffs.

/bangs head on table/

yeahbutnaw · 07/04/2021 16:26

Here's some info on it that you obviously won't read: www.childnet.com/blog/childline-fapz-campaign

yeahbutnaw · 07/04/2021 16:25

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AlwaysLatte · 07/04/2021 16:21

Whaaat?
With our strict router settings though they'd never manage to see any of it, thankfully.

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