FOR THE FIRST time ever in Ireland, pornography is going to be discussed with Junior Cycle students from next September as part of the new Social Personal and Health Education Curriculum and some concerned sections of the population are understandably asking questions, such as:
In the absence of any effective positive guidance from us, the adult population, around what sex can be, we have handed over the sexual conditioning and sexual education of this generation of Irish adolescents to the porn industry. Reassurance The rest of the programme we are implementing provides these students with the space they need to critically reflect on the impact pornography has had on their expectations of sexual encounters.
Other parents are inclined to assume, “Well, my child wouldn’t…” but it’s no longer about your child and what they would or wouldn’t do. It’s not about their access to the internet. It’s about the internet’s unfettered access to them. Algorithms designed to target them based on their age and gender bombard them with sexually explicit content through every social media platform available before they would even naturally consider themselves as sexual beings at all.
The internet made porn a secondary school problem when I was in school. Smartphones have now made porn a primary school problem and we need to talk about it; we need to start teaching about it.
It’s the government I’m worried about
Same could be said about Drag shows for kids.
Leave the Children alone and stop pushing this sex agenda on young Boys and Girls in National schools.
As a parent I’m more worried about this government’s agenda
We thank Mr clearly for his input but ultimately it's totally up to the parents to decide which Way to deal with it
It should be about parents installing firewalls and having the intellectual curiosity to learn how to add child safety list to the firewall so the kids never get near the sites people are so so worried about. It's called looking after your kids.
Wrong, this really isn’t the first generation to go down that road lads. Im sure Mr Clearly was well paid though
I learned about it from a lad in 4th class who used to smuggle his da's Sun newspaper into school.
disastrous
And the lgbt “industry”
It's many more than one generation. It's not like people were teaching it openly before.
That happened long before today Eoghan