Scientifically based and non-religious, Things You Didn't Know About Porn, is a FREE three-part YOU Tube series (links in the left margin). It describes some potential pitfalls of porn use in simple, easy to understand terms, employing slides to make the material more interesting for boys.
It's an unsettling fact that by age 11 most boys have been exposed to pornographic images. Yet few materials on the subject address such a youthful audience. If you're a parent, it can be surprisingly difficult to find a good way to discuss pornography. You don't want your child to see sex as "forbidden" or "dirty," but no matter how sex-positive you are, you sense that porn isn't the best way to gain a sex education.
The twenty-five minute series draws a parallel between junk food and porn, and explains why these activities have the potential to "train" the brain, and become unhealthy habits. This lets youngsters make more informed choices about all potentially addictive substances and activities.
Things You Didn't Know About Porn was developed by an international team that includes a personal development expert, a science teacher and his son, and the author of a book on how sex affects the brain. It helps kids, parents and teachers become knowledgeable about the ramifications of pornography use.
The addictiveness of Internet pornography is not a metaphor. All addiction involves long-term, sometimes lifelong, neuroplastic change in the brain. ... The same surge of dopamine that thrills us also consolidates the neuronal connections. --Psychiatrist Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself.
What Parents Are Saying:
I love how this material provides an explanation and good reason for a young man to avoid porn without making him feel sleazy or dirty for finding it sexually stimulating.
My husband, who is a teacher, uses this information in his classes. Students find it enlightening and absorb and understand it.
I like the idea of distinguishing between instinctive thoughts and rational ones.
I must show this to my sis who is a single mum. One son has been looking up porn a lot on the web and she doesn't really know what to do about it.
It's an unsettling fact that by age 11 most boys have been exposed to pornographic images. Yet few materials on the subject address such a youthful audience. If you're a parent, it can be surprisingly difficult to find a good way to discuss pornography. You don't want your child to see sex as "forbidden" or "dirty," but no matter how sex-positive you are, you sense that porn isn't the best way to gain a sex education.
The twenty-five minute series draws a parallel between junk food and porn, and explains why these activities have the potential to "train" the brain, and become unhealthy habits. This lets youngsters make more informed choices about all potentially addictive substances and activities.
Things You Didn't Know About Porn was developed by an international team that includes a personal development expert, a science teacher and his son, and the author of a book on how sex affects the brain. It helps kids, parents and teachers become knowledgeable about the ramifications of pornography use.
The addictiveness of Internet pornography is not a metaphor. All addiction involves long-term, sometimes lifelong, neuroplastic change in the brain. ... The same surge of dopamine that thrills us also consolidates the neuronal connections. --Psychiatrist Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself.
What Parents Are Saying:
I love how this material provides an explanation and good reason for a young man to avoid porn without making him feel sleazy or dirty for finding it sexually stimulating.
My husband, who is a teacher, uses this information in his classes. Students find it enlightening and absorb and understand it.
I like the idea of distinguishing between instinctive thoughts and rational ones.
I must show this to my sis who is a single mum. One son has been looking up porn a lot on the web and she doesn't really know what to do about it.