The Pornography Issue - Sex Educational Supplement

The Pornography Issue (2013) is the Sex Education Forum’s first edition of the e-magazine. It aims to help school deliver high quality relationships and sex education to classes to tackle potentially taboo subjects and offer practical advice drawn from consultation with those on the front-line of sex education: teachers and young people.

This magazine includes:

• lesson ideas
• suggested resources and recommendations from young people about what they want to know
• advice for schools on how to broach this potentially difficult subject

“Teachers have told us they are nervous about mentioning pornography in RSE, yet given the ease with which children are able to access explicit sexual content on the internet, it is vital that teachers can respond to this reality appropriately.
Whilst in some cases children find this material by accident, there are instances when they come across pornography whilst looking for answers to sex education questions; it is therefore wholly appropriate that pornography and the issues it reveals are addressed in school RSE.
In addition, teaching children and young people to be critical consumers of media and able to discuss issues about the body, gender and sexual behaviour will equip them with “filters in their head” to be more in control of the media available to them.”