Barcelona, (EFE).- The Swedish porn film director with a feminine gaze Erika Lust has presented this Thursday the website “The porn conversation”, in which she gives guidelines to parents and educators to talk about sexual education and thus counteract early initiation that they have sexist porn through their cell phones “since the age of eight.”
Lust defends that pornography is legitimate entertainment for people over 18 years of age, but calls for its regulation to make it paid content to prevent minors from accessing it so easily.
The director of ethical porn warns of the harmful effects that watching so many hours of sexist pornography in which women are denigrated can have on children, effects that in some cases can lead to attacks in the classroom.
“The subject of pornography and minors may seem controversial, but the reality is that parents and teachers must face the conversation, it is absolutely necessary, since children are accessing these images on a massive scale without control. Some studies say that they access from the mobile from the age of 8. At 15 years old, eight out of two have done it ”, he added.
Lust, who is presenting his film “The Wedding” in Barcelona tonight, has reflected on the implications of children and adolescents having access to hours and hours of pornography long before experiencing a sexual relationship for the first time.
“From childhood, they begin to understand through porn that man is something like a penetrating machine that makes use of force and violence. And the girls learn that they are there to give pleasure to sex, that they are pure tools for the male orgasm, ”he added.
Tips for parents and educators
Lust, who is a mother, decided to create the web project “thepornconversation.org”, an initiative that stands out as “non-profit”, when she realized that other parents at her children’s school did not know how to deal with the conversation about what did she do
“I told them that my children knew perfectly well. But I realized that it was totally taboo to talk about porn among themselves while their children were secretly watching it and internalizing the messages without further context or explanation”, he said.
Lust has recognized that many children and adolescents are the first to not want to talk about sex with their parents, but she recommends conveying the message to them anyway and also, in any case, letting them see that parents and teachers are available to talk about it without problems.
“Maybe they don’t want to sit down and listen to you, it violates them. But you can talk to them while taking them to school, or you can send them an interesting article that you have read. Or you can tell them the story of a “friend” or “friend” so that they are interested, identify themselves and, ultimately, pay attention to you ”, she has recounted.
The materials and educational guides of The Porn Conversation, available online for free in Spanish, are divided by age, from 8 to 11 years old, from 12 to 15 years old, and finally for people over 16.
Asked how much influence she believes mobile porn has from an early age in the cases of “herds” among adolescents in the classroom, Lust has assessed: “it is clear that they take ideas and normalize a behavior of violence towards women, of access without desire of the woman’s body, and they assume that it is an accepted and acceptable behavior”.