Today childline launched a new campaign (FAPZ) to help young people make sense of the powerful influence online porn can have on young people. I welcome any new or renewed effort to help tackle this issue. What ever adults personally think about adults consuming porn, it clearly is not meant for young people. Below is a tweet from Simon Blake (CEO of Brook) Agree @NSPCC we must talk about porn at home, school & community. Whatever you think about porn it is not place CYP should learn about sex — Simon Blake (@Simonablake) March 31, 2015 It is very worrying to hear Childline reporting high numbers of calls to their phone line where online porn is a key issue. And this will just be a tip of the iceberg of the influence porn is having. When I talk about Childline in high schools I have meet many young people who think its not for them because they aren't a child so they wont ring it. Such a shame. However, the NSPCC could strengthen their campaign by releasing th
Thanks Gareth, great videos, really like the Dove ones. It's so out of control that we're bombarded by images of 'perfection' every day, even though it just doesn't exist. Any perspectives on a guy's self-image? What are the biggest challenges out there? Similar to girls i.e. images of celebs or more the 'be hard' or the 'be succesful' stereotyping?
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ReplyDeleteI think that boys do have a lot of pressure around body image just like girls they see magazines/videos were guys have airbrushed abs and perfect skin.
ReplyDeleteBut the gender stereotypes may be a more universal difficulty for all guys were the body image may impact some guys more then others.