Invitation: Parent seminar

How can you help your child navigate issues of pornography and sexuality?
As part of our Respectful Relationships Initiative, NHS invites all parents and carers to a free seminar:
It's time we talked: Pornography, young people and sexuality today
Wednesday 28th June
6.30pm-7.45pm
NHS Library
Reserve your place via: https://www.trybooking.com/QPQT
Readily available and aggressively marketed online, exposure to hardcore pornography is now mainstream. Porn has become a default sex educator for many young people, with serious implications for their capacity to negotiate free and full consent, for mutual respect, sexual health, and gender equality.
This session will be led by Maree Crabbe, coordinator of the community education project Reality & Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality.
This session, led by Maree Crabbe, Coordinator of the community education project Reality & Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality, will explore:
- What do parents need to understand about pornography and its influence on young people’s sexual understandings and expectations?
- How can parents support their children’s healthy social and sexual development in an age of pornography?
Maree is Co-Producer and Co-Director of the documentary films Love and Sex in an Age of Pornography, broadcast on SBS in Australia and in six other countries, and The Porn Factor, recently broadcast on SBS. She is also author of In The Picture – a whole school resource to assist secondary schools to address the influence of explicit sexual imagery. Maree’s articles on young people, sexuality and pornography have been published in online and print media.