Monday, 13 April 2009

The sex education show


Recently on channel 4 was a show teaching highschool students across the country about sex that they don't learn in school. Thier aim was to expose the truths about sex that teenagers as young as 11 are experining from porn. In a national survey it was reveaed that 40% of teenagers were watching porn on thier phones or computers. Throughout the tv show (shown on 30th march 2009) it was obvious the kind of filth they were exposing themselves to and how much it has influenced thier perception of sex. The pressure girls are under to look and perform to the expectations boys have made due watching porn. During the show they were shown several pairs of natural breasts and one fake pair (implants), the boys straight away chose the fake pair and labelled them the perfect pairs. Even the girls choose the fake pair and more scary was that 44% of teenage girls were unhappy with thier breasts and 1 in 5 girls were already considering a boob job. Personally for me i was horrified by the results found on the show (30th of march) because the school they were at was my highschool and i knew or recognised all the students and was disgustingly surprised with what they were saying. One students was my sister and asked a question about the size of her brests getting smaller if she lost weight. I couldn't belive that the girls i thought were the "good" girls were obsessed with thier image in comparisson to the ideal image portryaed by the porn image.
The behavoiur exhibited by the boys towards the girls is unacceptable (bad beahaviour)and the truth needs to be exposed to both the public about whats going on, and to the students that sex isn't anything like what they see in porn.
Also porn is linked with masturbaltion as an aid or tool, if teenagers are watcing porn soo young then it is highly likely that they are masturbating at the same time as well. In the survey conducted in class 19% of us first started masturbating between 10-11, which is the highest score, however its consistanly high between the ages 10-13. This could be due to early porn exposure like todays tennagers or not, however it would appear the discovery of masturbation as not on average changed as to what age it starts at.

http://sexperienceuk.channel4.com/sex-education/season-5/programme-1

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