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    Is Porn the New Sex Education?

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    2016-11-22
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    Oosterhoff, Pauline
    Gilder, Luke
    Mueller, Catherine
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    Over the past 15 years, internet pornography has become the predominant channel through which young people learn about sex, not just in the developed world, but increasingly in developing countries too. In many developing countries, traditional gatekeepers of sex education, such as governments, religious leaders and parents, still attempt to keep sexuality out of the public sphere. But they are mainly effective only at preventing sex education in the classroom, leaving young people to learn about sex online. There, genuine sex educators compete for their audience against widespread amateur and professional pornography and the new gatekeepers such as Facebook enforcing self-determined censorship, banning even simple information including guides to breast self-examination. To develop a comprehensive sex education strategy for young people that aims to reduce maternal and child mortality, unwanted pregnancy, sexual violence and includes the realities of sex and pleasure, policymakers and sex educators need to engage with new and traditional gatekeepers, porn distributors and young people themselves.
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/12676
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    Oosterhoff, P., Gilder, L. and Mueller, C. (2016) Is Porn the New Sex Education? IDS Rapid Response Briefing Issue15. Brighton: IDS.
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    IDS Rapid Response Briefing;15
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