"Growing up, watching porn – that's sort of where you get your grasp of what's normal and what's not."UPDATE 3/17/15: Pornography Belongs in Classroom, More Experts Say
-- Child in study
UPDATE 7/22/13: 'Pornography' substituting sex education in Australia
-- From "Pornography is replacing sex education" by Donna Bowater, UK Telegraph 12/16/11
Australian researchers Maree Crabbe and David Corlett said children were turning to adult films because schools were not handling the positive aspects of sex.
The researchers presented their findings at a conference at London University's Institute of Education.
Mary Clegg, chair of the British Association of Sexual Educators, agreed there was a shortfall in sex education at schools.
"But young people are hungry for more explicit information. They're curious and they're hormone-driven."
"Government needs to respond to spiralling under-age sex, not with pointless schemes to teach abstinence, but with better PSHE [Personal, Social and Health Education] teaching in schools for both girls and boys.” [said Diane Abbott, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister.]
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From "Kids turning to porn for sex education: study" by Dave McGinn, Globe and Mail Blog 12/16/11
In a recent New York Times Magazine story on sex education, the vice-president of education for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said, “There is abstinence-only sex education, and there’s abstinence-based sex ed. There’s almost nothing else left in public schools.”
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