INTERVIEW
How to protect children from pornographic images? While young people are confronted more and more with sexually explicit content with sometimes dramatic consequences on their balance, France 2 offers Wednesday a special evening dedicated to the issue, including a fiction, Intimate Connection . Wednesday guest of Culture Media , on Europe 1, its producer Fabienne Servan-Schreiber calls for a better education of sex education in schools, and encourages families to better dialogue with their children on the subject of pornography.
In 2017, an IFOP study revealed that 53% of adolescents had been accidentally exposed to a sexually explicit video or excerpt, and that the average age of teenagers surfing a pornographic site for the first time was 14 years old. . Images, which, especially among the youngest, can have real consequences on their balance and the construction of their own sex life, says Fabienne Servan-Schreiber. "If you confront very young children with images of such violence, where the image of the woman is extremely degraded, it leads to behaviors that are often addictive, violent and inappropriate in relation to their age," she explains. at the microphone of Philippe Vandel. "They have no idea what the real sex life is ... they're going to drift into completely inappropriate stories, they think that's what their parents did and that's how 'they will approach the sexuality', still alert the producer.
"We must familiarize children with the truth of what is sexuality"
"They are imposed behaviors and it gives dramatic situations in the youngest," says Fabienne Servan-Schreiber, according to which "there must be sex education in schools." "It's in the law, but it's not enforced." Beyond the school circle, the producer also calls families to take up the subject with their children. "The family must speak," she says, "many of these children have seen these images, feel guilty for having seen them and keep this for them". "You have to familiarize them with the truth of what sexuality is," she says. And if the parents concerned do not dare to approach the subject with their children, "they mean that they can talk to another: an aunt, an uncle, a godmother, etc."
Broadcast at 21:05, the fiction Intimate Connection will be followed at 22:40 of a documentary Pornography, a breeze , before a debate at 23:35 on the theme "Pornography: youth in danger".