Do you want to know how to talk “sex positively” with teens about porn and sex? Stephanie Boye of the educational Laid Bare by Anonymous X podcast program and Wendy tackle this challenge, providing some smart suggestions for how to proceed. In this engaging and detailed discussion, Stephanie and Wendy share ways parents can empower teens with accurate information, respect natural curiosities, acknowledge social influences, and support teens in making good choices and getting help, if and when, needed. They emphasize the need for good sex education resources and media influences that teach healthy sexuality. This extensive interview both illuminates and advises.
Topics covered include:
- Why teens are uncomfortable talking about sex and porn with parents
- How easily today’s porn industry can trap kids into looking at it from an early age
- The strong association between porn and masturbation in teens
- How porn experiences hamper the development of important intimacy skills
- How the much of approach to sex that porn teaches is not “positive sexuality”
- The profound benefits of truly healthy, real-life sexuality
- How avoiding porn increases sexual freedom and choices
- How parents can encourage teens to “maintain control of your own sexuality”
- The importance of full-body sensuality and mutuality in sex
- How The Porn Trap book can be a valuable resource for learning and healing
(Originally broadcast on 5-21-2021 as “21 Steps to Escaping from the Porn Trap with Wendy Maltz”)
Listen to this interview here.
