Porn isn’t a great way to learn about sex – but where else do young people work out how to do it?

As any parent knows, talking to your kids about sex isn’t easy. So where else can they get educated?

I watched a programme about porn on BBC iPlayer this week. I saw – and heard – things I can neither unsee nor unhear, but I’m still rather glad I saw it. In Porn Laid Bare, a group of millennials are taken to Spain where an awful lot of the stuff is made. Some of this group are against the whole business; others are very keen, er, users of this material. One lad advances the theory that “the whole world would crumble without porn”. That is quite a thing to believe. So it won’t be global warming, nuclear war or the Yellowstone supervolcano that will do for humankind. No, it will be some worldwide ban on porn, or Frankie Vaughan, as a cockney rascal I know calls it.

None of this is any kind of laughing matter if you have teenage daughters (or sons for that matter), I promise you. I dread to think what they have seen, and what conclusions they have drawn from it. I have had a carefully considered and rigorously adhered-to approach to the sex education of my children: I leave it to their mother, not least because any attempt I make to address the issue is met with horror, revulsion, embarrassment etc. I am not sure how much more success she has had.

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from Sex education | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2vOAgwM