Supporting Healthy Conversations
Three Videos, One Goal
Explore three tailored videos - one for pre-teens, one for adolescents, and one for parents - designed to address the challenges of an educational response to early-adolescents' exposure to online pornography.
For Parents
This video aims to raise parents' awareness about young people accessing or being exposed to online sexual content and highlights the importance of educating their children. It explores how teens’ natural sexual curiosity can lead them to explicit online material, the potential harms of pornography exposure, and the normalising influence of peers. It provides parents with practical tips to start open conversations, dispel misinformation, and help their teens safely navigate the digital world.
A Parent’s Guide: Helping your pre-teen navigate sexual media
For Teens
This video is designed to help you understand some important things about growing up in the digital age. It’s totally normal to feel curious about things like relationships, love, and even sex, that’s part of being a teenager. But with so much information (and misinformation) online, it’s easy to stumble upon stuff that might not be helpful or even harmful, like pornography. This video will explain why pornography can give you the wrong idea about relationships and bodies, and why it’s important to get accurate information from sources you can trust. We’ll also talk about why opening up to a trusted adult, like a parent or teacher, can help you navigate these questions in a safe and healthy way. Remember, it’s okay to be curious, but it’s even better to be informed.
This video, “Sex and Online Media is Like Learning to Drive,” is designed for younger children (aged 10–12) and introduces the topic in a gentle, age-appropriate way. It helps pre-teens understand that curiosity about growing up is normal, while also highlighting the importance of being guided safely when navigating the online world. Importantly, the video does not use the term pornography. This is intentional, as many children at this stage may not yet be familiar with the term, and introducing it prematurely can raise unnecessary curiosity. Instead, the focus is on building awareness and safe habits, while encouraging young people to speak with a parent or trusted adult if they have questions or come across something that concerns them. The aim is to create a safe starting point for early conversations, helping children feel supported and guiding parents in responding with confidence.