A Warwickshire County Council website aimed at 13 to 25-year-olds has been slammed by crones after offering advice which suggested (correctly) that ‘bum sex’ has long been used as a form of contraception, and that claims that watching porn is harmful are scientifically baseless.
Baseless and non scientific
Warwickshire County lies in the West Midlands region of England.
The council suspended the ‘Respect Yourself’ site after backlash from anti-porn and anti-sex campaign groups bleated that it ‘normalized sadomasochistic sex and porn’.
Respect Yourself, which currently states it is ‘under review’, contained information about issues including puberty and STIs, and also hosted a Q&A section where visitors could ask for advice.
One 12-year-old girl said she had a crush on her female music teacher and can’t sleep because she is addicted to masturbation.
Baseless and requires a response
The response said: “What you are going through is perfectly natural for a girl your age – for some reason we have the idea that only boys gets turned on, masturbate or watch porn. That is nonsense.”
It continued: “Before I go any further I need to point out that there is no way that you would ever be able to act on your feeling for your teacher.”
In another section, it tells teens not to be embarrassed by porn and masturbation, saying: “You may have seen there’s been quite a lot in the media recently about the dangers and harms that porn causes to young people.
Oppose the baseless nonsense
“Many people have been quite vocal and do truly believe that porn is dangerous for young people to watch. However, there are no scientific studies that give evidence to suggest that watching porn is any more likely to turn you into a sex addict than watching a violent film is likely to turn you into a serial killer. In fact there is more evidence to suggest the opposite.”
Faced with someone actually espousing scientific data instead of puritanical fear mongering, campaign groups SSA and Click Off started a petition against the website and demanded answers over how some of the content came to be published, including the ‘Sextionary’ section which described some sex acts as painful.
Who does this appeals to
It also provided descriptions of ‘niche’ sex acts in its ‘Sextionary’ to help youngsters understand terms they may have heard.
Under a heading ‘Does anal sex make you pregnant?’ on the website, it read: “A lot of people think that the whole notion of anal sex is reserved for porn stars or gay men – well in fact cultures since the dawn of time have used bum sex as a form of contraception.
Couples and Anal sex
“It allowed couples who were not necessarily married or ready to have children a means of having penetrative sex without the risk of getting pregnant.”
A spokeswoman for the anti-porn and anti-sex campaign group Safe Schools Alliance (SSA), Tracy Shaw, said: “It’s totally inappropriate.
Lets Leave Teens out of this
“Teenagers are already under so much pressure because of what they see in porn. This website is normalizing porn and the type of sex teenagers are unlikely to get.
“If the message they are getting from the council is [dangerous sex] is fine, how will they feel when they are uncomfortable? They will think there is something wrong with them.
“We are not against sex education, but we need to show how damaging porn is. We are coming at this from a safeguarding point of view.”
Think of the children!
Bollocks.
One Response
Reminds me of the time netflix edited a bill nye episode that told of only two genders. Parents must homeschool their children or submit them to unnatural agendas by certain groups.