Porn education curriculum called for in schools

A sex education expert has called for porn education in high schools.

Debbie Ollis, who works at Deakin University in Australia, claimed that it was necessary to inform children about pornography after a survey found that 92% of boys and 61% of girls aged 13 to 16 have been exposed to adult material, reports the Geelong Advertiser.

She stated: "The internet is being used as a sex education tool without the expertise of an educator or more appropriate content to teach kids about intimacy, about desire, about safety - all those sort of issues."

Furthermore, Ollis revealed that she has worked on a curriculum that covers and explains pornography: "Somehow, we've got to prepare them to be able to deconstruct and understand what they're seeing, and to realise that most of these images aren't the reality of life."

Pornography researcher Marree Crabbe added that the majority of porn shows aggression towards women.

She commented: "It's normalising particular sex acts that we know women in the real world not only don't enjoy, but may also find painful, humiliating and degrading."

According to Crabbe, the average age at which children are exposed to pornographic material is 11.

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