{"id":1760139,"date":"2022-12-02T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760139"},"modified":"2022-12-02T16:18:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:18:51","slug":"planned-parenthood-exec-said-children-are-born-sexual-wants-kid-porn-literacy-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/planned-parenthood-exec-said-children-are-born-sexual-wants-kid-porn-literacy-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood Exec Said Children Are Born \u2018Sexual,\u2019 Wants Kid Porn Literacy Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fplanned-parenthood-exec-said-children-are-born-sexual-wants-kid-porn-literacy-lessons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/planned-parenthood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> executive has sparked backlash for saying that children are \u201csexual\u201d from birth and calling for porn literacy lessons for older children.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Taverner, executive director of\u00a0the New Jersey-based Center for Sex Education, Planned Parenthood\u2019s\u00a0sex education arm,\u00a0made the newly unearthed comments in a 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JfFH7bVqVQE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>, Fox News first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/planned-parenthood-sexuality-educator-claims-kids-sexual-birth-porn-literacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that we unfortunately have in our society, an assumption of asexuality of people with intellectual disabilities,\u201d Taverner told the interviewer, sexuality consultant\u00a0Leslie Walker-Hirsch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a myth that\u2019s perpetuated, and really we are all sexual beings from birth until death,\u201d Taverner said.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood itself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/planned-parenthood-sexuality-educator-claims-kids-sexual-birth-porn-literacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">echoed<\/a> this sentiment in a guide called the \u201cFundamentals of Teaching Sexuality,\u201d stating that,\u00a0\u201csexuality is a part of life through all the ages and stages. Babies, elders, and everyone in between can experience sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=37WNlsk5tQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>, Taverner appeared to imply that some pornography exposure could be \u201cuseful\u201d for older children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that there\u2019s this yearning for information that young people have that \u2026 hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d\u00a0Taverner said in the interview, which was hosted by a local New Jersey chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the internet is a major influence on how people learn about sexuality,\u201d Taverner said. \u201cThere\u2019s access to erotica, pornography. That was very different for young people 30 years ago, certainly not as accessible, certainly not as instantaneous. So there\u2019s a lot of information that is useful, there\u2019s websites that are \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of it is wrong,\u201d interrupted the interviewer, NOW\u2019s\u00a0Rebecca Lubetkin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of it is wrong, a lot of it is wrong, but there\u2019s good stuff out there as well,\u201d Taverner responded.<\/p>\n<p>Taverner added that \u201csexting\u201d is another issue schools need to discuss with students during sex education.<\/p>\n<p>The Planned Parenthood executive made similar remarks last year, saying\u00a0that\u00a0while those in public health and sexology never wanted porn to be the \u201cde facto educator,\u201d we need to \u201cshift our education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taverner said in a 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WnbpFlwlKXQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>\u00a0that there is a \u201cresistance\u201d to discussing pornography with students because some people think it will encourage them to watch it, which Taverner called\u00a0\u201cthe same faulty kind of premise as if we teach about condoms is it going to make people want to have sex with condoms. Maybe that\u2019s not a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting back to meeting people where they are, if this is what they\u2019re doing with their cell phones and their tablets and their laptops,\u00a0then we need to shift our education and stop doing the banana on a condom and think that, you know, we\u2019ve done our thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Taverner said sex educators need to guide young people in thinking about their values, for example, the ethics of pornography.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not to say that there\u2019s a right answer,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to have conversations about what\u2019s missing in porn that may be different in a real relationship, and that\u2019s not to castigate porn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sex education can start as early as kindergarten, Taverner said in\u00a0the 2012 interview. In kindergarten, sex education may involve talking about \u201cwhat makes a family\u201d or \u201cthe basics of germs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of that sets the foundation for a basic understanding that is useful for further conversations when we\u2019re talking about condoms or when we\u2019re talking about pregnancy prevention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAge-appropriate sex education is so important,\u201d Taverner said. \u201cWe need to let our experts guide us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monica Cline, a former Planned Parenthood sex educator, said Planned Parenthood clearly has a \u201cdistorted view of sexuality and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pornification of our children by Planned Parenthood pays homage to the \u2018Father\u2019 of sex education, Alfred Kinsey, who claimed children are sexual from birth after sexually abusing infants and children for his research,\u201d Cline said in a statement. \u201cThe sex-ed industry, funded in large part by our government, has adopted this depraved belief, pushing this twisted thinking onto vulnerable populations since the 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cline called for the government to cut funding for Planned Parenthood and for parents to \u201cwake up and get them out of the schools in their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taverner has worked in the sex education field since at least 1995, according to his LinkedIn page. In 2014, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/press-releases\/planned-parenthood-holds-capitol-hill-briefing-real-sex-ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advocated<\/a> for sex education at a congressional briefing on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he expressed his view that society has a \u201cpuritanical, anti-sex, eroti-phobic kind of orientation\u201d around the topic of sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to recognize that a lot of folks are driven by fear,\u201d Taverner said in the same 2021 interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Planned Parenthood executive has sparked backlash for saying that children are \u201csexual\u201d from birth and calling for porn literacy lessons for older children. Bill Taverner, executive director of\u00a0the New Jersey-based Center for Sex Education, Planned Parenthood\u2019s\u00a0sex education arm,\u00a0made the newly unearthed comments in a 2015 interview, Fox News first reported. \u201cI think that we &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1760142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}