One of the many disturbing features of our modern secular world is the realization that there is an active cohort of adults who are simply desperate to talk to children about sex.  And they don’t want to talk to them about boring old heterosexual sex. They want to talk to them about every other type of sexual activity, most of which even those of us who are well into adulthood don’t want to know about.

The fact that some of these adults can be found working from kindergarten level, all the way up to university lecture theatres, has been very well established. Nevertheless, it is important to continue to make a note of where this push to corrupt the innocence of the young is coming from, as well as who is behind it.

The University of Sydney is one such place, and Professor Alan McKee, Head of the School of Arts, Communication and English is one such individual. A recent news item on the university’s website proudly informs us that Professor McKee has led a team of ‘health experts, sexual health experts, sex educators, and pornography researchers’ to come up with the best way of promoting ‘healthy and ethical pornography’ to teachers and young adults over 18.

While the project’s authors state that pornography is a ‘sensitive area’ and under 18-year-olds should not engage with it, they then proceed to contradict themselves with the claim that ‘there is need to consider age-appropriate consent education resources’, i.e. expose children to pornography. They cite a 2017 Australian Institute of Family Studies research paper which found that 44 percent of 9–16-year-olds were accessing pornography, as well as a Curtin University study which claimed that 90% of parents would like their 14-year-olds to be exposed to literacy on pornography at school.

The University of Sydney is thus actively encouraging pornographic content to be introduced into school through its research, and it engaged Kerrin Bradfield, who is a former President of the Society of Australian Sexologists, to write a 90 minute ‘Healthy Pornography?’ lesson plan. Bradfield boasts that she has ‘delivered sexuality education to tens of thousands of people from Kindergarten students to United Nations staff,’ so you could say she was the best person for the job. While Bradfield begins by assuring us that the lesson plan is for 18–25-year-olds, she also admits that it ‘may also be suitable for younger participants who have had prior learning on related areas such as consent, healthy relationships, safer sex, and gender equality.’ Bradfield is clearly expecting that the material she writes will be used by teachers to talk to minors about pornography in the classroom. There is even a specific lesson which specifies that ‘if the group is 16-18 years you should explain to them that we are focussing on the older cohort who can legally access pornography in Australia and this information may be useful for participants in the future.’ They too can look forward to visiting pornographic sites such as of sexschoolhub, makelovenotporn, pinklabel and lustcinema when they get to 18!

The 90-minute lesson provides a detailed and thorough run down of who watches pornography, why they watch pornography and where they watch pornography. But in a section entitled ‘What do the experts think’, students are clearly being inducted into the cult of radical gender theory by their teachers through a number of themes. Discussion points include, but are not limited to;

• challenge power limiting dynamics that promote only one type of body, race, gender as deserving of pleasure or sexual agency.
• validate and empower historically excluded white people.
• support identification of dominant discourses and sexual scripts.
• challenge norms of what sex is and how it should work.
• reduce heteronormative social pressures and provide space to consider whether different sexual practice are things they might enjoy.

Finally, Bradfield has included an appendix which needs to be seen to be believed. Entitled ‘Pornhub- a year in review’, Appendix B is advertised as suitable for young adults over 18 years of age. It is essentially a list of the most common to the least common pornographic terms used in 2022. Very few of them are self-explanatory, so presumably the teacher will be required to fill in the gaps with  graphic detail. The question is, what will stop a teacher introducing Pornhub Appendix B to children in their classrooms? Absolutely nothing.  We know this because it’s already happening in Canadian and American classrooms.  If the adults who are obsessed with talking to other people’s children about sexual practices get their way, Australian classrooms will soon be as bad as those of North America.