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Anya Manes - Talking About Sex - San Francisco CA

What to tell kids about porn and when to say it.

The disturbing truth today is that young children are being exposed to hard-core porn through the internet before most parents realize they need to have a conversation about it.

By the time they are teens, most adolescents have viewed hard-core porn and can access it at will.

With what we now know from brain science, the addictive nature of pornography, and adolescent imprinting, this is a newly essential conversation to have with our kids!

  • The scope of the problem – and what to do about it
  • The 4 main ideas we and our kids need to understand about porn
  • Phrases and analogies you can use to guide the conversation in age-appropriate ways

Praise

I first presented this material at a local organization’s lunchtime parenting series.
Here are some of the comments they received in the follow up survey:

Very informative, and eye-opening. I’m so glad I attended as I want to guide and protect my 9 year old son as best I can and have the tools and resources to help guide him away from this cyber predator.

This was the best hour spent in a long time. The presenter covered more topics than I anticipated and I found all of the information useful. She was persuasive too in encouraging us to initiate this difficult conversation with our children. Excellent event. Thank you!

Excellent and important presentation. Thank you for hosting.

This talk was extremely relevant and useful. I was impressed by the speaker’s ability to speak about a difficult subject in a clear and matter of fact way while giving parents talking points and example on starting a conversation with children of various age groups.

I think in the last 15 years this was the best presentation I have seen, the presenter shared some amazing information that I will try to share as many people as possible. Indirectly, she hit a nail on the problem of why men harass women at the work etc. As we have seen various women’s movement empowering women putting corrupt politicians on notice. I wish you could bring her back, I will also invite her in our community center. I cannot thank you enough for discovering and bringing her.