Sex Education Materials Which Normalise Strangulation (‘Choking’) Must Be Prohibited https://www.change.org/p/sex-education-materials-which-normalise-strangulation-choking-must-be-prohibited

Please sign and share. Our children need to be taught that there is no safe way to strangle and about healthy relationships, not porn-addled nonsense that harms. The increase in perpetrators and victims of sexual crimes is on the rise amongst children, due to inappropriate content and no skill-set or idea of how to have happy, healthy relationships. It impacts the lives of boys and girls and their families.

In 2022/23, new data was released on the ages of victims of sexual offences in police records. This data showed that children were disproportionately affected by sexual abuse. Girls aged under 18 accounted for 37% of all female victims of sexual offences, while making up just 19% of the population, while 40% of male victims but 21% of the male population were aged under 18.

40,000 child-on-child sexual abuse offenses in a single year, align with this trend, based on data from 44 police forces across England and Wales. https://ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/childsexualabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2019#what-do-we-know-about-the-prevalence-of-sexual-abuse-during-childhood-…

https://criminalinjurieshelpline.co.uk/blog/sexual-abuse-data-stats/…

https://nspcc.org.uk/about-us/news-opinion/2024/2024-01-10-almost-87000-sexual-offences-against-children-were-recorded-by-police-in-the-past-year/

No Safe Way To Strangle

As someone who has taught RSHE and Sex Ed to teenagers – There is No Safe Way To Strangle, this has been known for over a decade and was something highlighted in my sessions as: ABUSE v HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS Sadly many of the NGO’s or Pop up organisations that now provide RSHE resources to schools call porn a “normal part of life” – this is inherently dangerous, when it fails to explain HOW porn has changed and just how unrealistic porn is. Many teachers probably have NO idea what their students are viewing online. That is why the KEY element of education here is HOW to have a HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP and not a “how to” guide on fetishes and extreme and dangerous sex for fun!

Myth #1: My child hasn’t seen porn

Chances are, they have. Extremely graphic online porn is widely available, free, and accessible not only from smartphones but also from countless electronic devices that children interact with daily. The facts speak for themselves: 1 in 3 children report they’ve seen porn by age 12. And only 50% of parents thought their 14-to-18-year-olds had seen porn as had in fact watched it. Depending on the sex act, parents underestimated what their kids saw by as much as 10 times.

• Porn sites get more monthly visitors than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined
• 44% of males ages 11–16 who saw hardcore porn said it gave them ideas about the type of sex they wanted to try
• 88% of porn scenes contain sexual violence against women Learn more https://culturereframed.org/the-crisis/#

Myth #2: Porn isn’t that bad

Today there are hundreds of millions of free, easy-to-access hardcore videos that depict misogynistic, humiliating, degrading content at best and contain images of sexual assault, rape, and even incest at worst. What’s more, virtual reality (VR) porn—where a user can be fully immersed in their surroundings—is already here and rapidly advancing. An increasing number of kids own VR video game platforms, which are connected to the internet.

• For teens, a significant relationship exists between frequent pornography use and feelings of loneliness and major depression
• Minors who view pornography and other sexualized media are more accepting of sexual violence and more likely to believe “rape myths” (i.e., that women enjoy being raped)
• A study of 14-to-19-year-olds found that females who consumed pornographic videos were at a significantly greater risk of being victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault

The Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, highlighted one harrowing account:

A young girl who was strangled during her first kiss because her 12-year-old boyfriend had seen it in pornography “and thought it normal”. https://x.com/FamEdTrust/status/1648968040627806219 .

From @SafeSchools_UK

**** Please sign & share **** “The current situation in UK schools allows for unregulated external providers of #SexEducation #RSE #PSHE to transmit patently unsafe messages normalising the practice of ‘choking’ – the pornified term for sexualised strangulation….. We, the co-signatories & those signing the petition ask that the relevant parties in the @educationgovuk @ukhomeoffice & @MoJGovUK act with all possible urgency to scrutinise materials being provided to schools by external providers – and materials subsequently absorbed into the school Sex Ed / RSE / PSHE resource pools – to identify and prohibit those that promote myths of ‘safe’ ‘choking [sic] and impose new, binding guidelines relating to this harmful practice on those seeking to supply schools with materials.” https://safeschoolsallianceuk.net/

https://www.change.org/p/sex-education-materials-which-normalise-strangulation-choking-must-be-prohibited

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