How to parent teens in a porn culture

[Gaildines]

Concerned that your teen may be looking at porn? Worried about the way girls are being sexualized from an early age? Challenged by parenting in a digital porn culture? Need help on how to talk to your kids about these issue? Culture Reframed is here to help you. A charity that helps parents build resilience and resistance in their kids to porn culture. We are having a conference in London on July 18th (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-healthy-children-in-a-porn-culture-challenges-and-solutions-tickets-46839061895) We would love to hear your stories and share ideas about how to build healthy, robust kids.

Are you thinking of coming up north too Gail? I have an almost ten year old boy. I hope that he and his very good, long term best friend (who is a girl) will to some extent keep each other sane over sex attitudes but am terrified for both of them as well as my younger children.
Kids often have single sex friendship groups and are encouraged from a young age to compete with and other the opposite sex. Ways to combat this would I'm sure help in many ways.

ps I admire your work, please please keep at it.

Booked solid in London so can't get to Manchester this trip. Can you make it to our conference? the conference is all about how to combat kids being dragged into the toxic porn culture. kids need help and all studies show that the best protective factor for building robust kids is well informed parents.

How often do you have these courses?

I am based in the USA so most of our courses are here. You can go online to look at our free parents program at: parents.culturereframed.org/course/parents-of-tweens/

You can spend 5 minutes or 5 hours on the program. it is designed to give you the knowledge, tools and confidence to talk to your kids about hyper-sexualization and porn. Would love to hear feedback.

I didn't realise the online course was free. Thanks Gail.

I'm hearing so much from my own peers about how normalised porn had become and that they take its use for granted without questioning it (whether they admit to using it themselves or not). As a younger woman I was of the opinion that to be anti-porn was to be prudish but now the idea of its prevalence and effects makes me livid.

What do you say to people who think it's harmless fun?

Thank you for your question. We have over 30 years of research showing that the earlier boys look at porn, the more likely they are to commit sexual violence, have reduced empathy for women and girls, lack capacity for building intimate relationships, become addicted to porn, suffer from erectile dysfunction, have significant shifts is their brain development, become desensitized to images of sexual violence, suffer from depression and anxiety. Most of this in my TEDx talk: