Ajahn Brahm: Community, Trust, Dec. 2025

Community and Trust | Ajahn Brahm | 12 December 2025

Jimmy Kimmel returns to hound Trump

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s crazy summer, rumors that he died, and Colbert’s cancellation

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 2, 2025: Kimmel returns from summer vacation to talk about his travels, all the crazy things Trump did while he was gone, the social media posts claiming Trump DIED, Rudy Giuliani getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, everything that happened with Stephen Colbert and CBS, rumors that Jimmy is moving to Italy after getting his citizenship, a PSA from summer guest hosts, and packing bags and heading back to Brooklyn from Sept. 29-Oct. 3! Want to come see the show being taped on the Eastcoast? Get free tickets here: kimmelinbrooklyn.com. #Kimmel

Trump stops ALL wars, MAGA mouth-breathers mad, Cracker Barrel, Ted Cruz

Research: autistic brains are psychic

New research finds the autistic brain has psychic abilities

(Danny Jones Clips) Iya Whiteley: Autism is a spectrum disorder, but not talking may be masking other powers and abilities. Indigo and Crystal Children can communicate even if they do not "talk" (verbalize) much. They have differences but these are not necessarily deficits. Social awkwardness to us is something else to them. More

• Iya Whiteley, MClinPsy, PhD – IONS

Young Men Series: Dating is impossible!

Young men series: How they’re going about courtship

Can I borrow your credit card so that you can buy me a some presents? Then we can go out!

Why do I need to date girls? Honestly!

One recent week on AirTalk, man-loving Host Larry Mantel thought to explore the experiences of today’s young men in America, the issues impacting them, and the trends they’re bucking.

One of the major issues impacting them: loneliness (psychologytoday.com). One in four men report being lonely, according to Gallup. At the same time, they’re also not trying to make as many connections as their older peers, with nearly half of young men not even dating. (Gen Zs romance gap: Why nearly half of young men aren't dating).

This has led to some interesting data, namely that most young men are single whereas most young women are not single (thehill.com). So what’s going on with the dating scene? Why are young men seemingly struggling with courtship?

Joining Mantle to discuss these questions are Daniel Cox, director of the Survey Center on American Life at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank and Daniel Ellenberg, leadership coach, licensed therapist, and seminar leader.

• LISTEN: How are they going about courtship? (34:21)

I like to people watch rather than date, y'know?

One of those bucked trends is their views on religion. Historically, women have been more religious than men overall. But recent data from Pew Research suggests that Generation Z men are closing this gender gap and are becoming religious at rates near their women counterparts. So what’s behind the rise in religious young men, and will it last?

Joining Larry to answer these questions and more is associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University where he studies religious identity Ryan Burge and Reformed University Fellowship Campus Minister at the University of California, Irvine Derek Rishmawy.

• LISTEN: Young men series: why they are turning back to religion (25:19)
• Larry Mantle, AirTalk (laist.com), July 2025; Psychrypt on Schopenhauer and true love; The Ressurectionists, The 4,000-year-old secret behind the frog prince; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Trump's tariff tirade is tanking economy

Trump threatens 104% China tariffs, Fox News ignores market, Musk-Navarro Spar | The Daily Show

Trump’s tariff tirade continues, Houston fans mad at Ted Cruz and Elon calls Trump advisor a moron

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) April 8, 2025: The Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P are all down again today, Trump announced that his annual physical will be done at Walter Reed on Friday, Elon Musk is calling Trump’s senior trade adviser Peter Navarro a “moron” and gave him a new nickname, Donald weighed in on why Russia was not included in the 86 countries he decided to tax (but Ukraine was), he is planning to hit China with an additional 84% tariff, the bootlickers on Fox and Friends are trying to spin it all as a good thing, The Florida Gators beat the Houston Cougars to win NCAA basketball championship, people are very upset about Ted Cruz being at the game and cursing Houston sports teams, and our Tony Award winning friend David Alan Grier performs a tribute in honor of fallen foods from the Cheesecake Factory menu.

Trump's war plans, Jon Stewart (TDS)

Team Trump accidentally texts war plans, Donald throws fit over portrait and G in White Lotus

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) March 24, 2025: Jimmy is currently ranked Number 2 in the office March Madness Pool, Guillermo (G) went to a soccer game over the weekend, Trump might be regretting not filling out a March Madness bracket, the White House announced that they’re looking to partner with corporate sponsors for the annual Easter Egg Roll, Trump posted about his dislike for a portrait of him hung in the state capitol in Colorado, top Trump officials accidentally revealed secret military plans on a group chat that included a senior editor from The Atlantic, drunkard Pete Hegseth dropped by the White house to show off a new military plane, Elon Musk had an all hands meeting with Tesla employees to sort of reassure them, and G talks to the cast of “The White Lotus” in hopes of joining the cast.

Comedy from MikeMacRae.com when VP JD Vance calls in to TJDS

• Jimmy Dore's official website – Home of TJDS

Jon Stewart on which speech is free and which will cost you in Trump’s America | The Daily Show

(The Daily Show) March 24, 2025: Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show on Trump and Republicans who pride themselves on “saving” free speech, all while censoring anybody who doesn’t agree with them. #DailyShow #FreeSpeech #Trump

• Jon Stewart, The Daily Show; Jimmy Kimmel Live; The Jimmy Dore Show (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

'Deadpool & Wolverine' - inside Hollywood

Deadpool & Wolverine | final trailer | Disney

(Marvel Entertainment) Are you ready? Experience. This Marvel universe movie finally hits US theaters on the weekend of July 26, 2024, expecting to pull in $200 million. It's all inside jokes that make sense in Hollywood, but who knows how they'll play in cineplexes outside Los Angeles. #DeadpoolAndWolverine in theaters everywhere.

Ryan Reynolds' real life wife smiles in her review

It's Blake Lively of Savages fame on her hubby

• FilmWeek REVIEW: ‘‘‘Deadpool 3,’ ‘Dìdi (弟弟),’ ‘Great Absence,’ ‘Starve Acre,’ and more | LAist
• Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) on IMDb

Chris Stuckmann reviews Deadpool & Wolverine, starring Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Matthew Macfadyen, Dafne Keen, Morena Baccarin. Directed by Shawn Levy.

Get tickets: Fandango.com/DeadpoolAndWolverine ► Watch Marvel on Disney+: https://bit.ly/2XyBSIW ► Subscribe to Marvel on YouTube: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ

Valentine's Day w/ No Doubt's Gwen Stefani

Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump’s crazy Valentine’s message for wife Melania, Lara Trump (son's wife) for RNC co-chair, couples play hand hole

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Feb. 14, 2024: Single men and women have been using apps and websites to find love, but lately they have turned back to a very old-fashioned way of finding dates, there has been a big surge in AI-generated companions, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump all took to the internet to wish their wives a Happy Valentine’s Day, Trump has endorsed his daughter-in-law Lara for RNC co-chair, there was a special election in New York yesterday to fill the vacancy left by exiting LGBTQIA+ Republican George Santos, and in honor of Valentine’s Day couples on Hollywood Blvd. play a new game called “Hand Hole!”

Gwen Stefani drops by every show she can

Gwen Stefani [who will be on the Klein Ally Show on KROQ FM on Friday morning, 2/16/24] talks about Valentine’s Day with hubby country star Blake Shelton, giving him a flame thrower, her kids giving out Valentines in class, No Doubt reuniting to play Coachella, getting back together with her old band, her new song "Purple Irises," and checking-in on a local souvenir shop where Blake is doing some last-minute shopping for Valentine’s Day.

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Mardi Gras, Valentine's Day, pregnant fish

Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump puts his greasy fingers all over the RNC and a stingray pregnant with a baby shark?

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Feb. 13, 2024: Today is Mardi Gras and a high school kid in Louisiana is raising awareness that beads [traded for public nudity] are not good for the environment, the Waste Management Phoenix Open was a total disaster, Reese’s the beloved peanut butter cup company put out a special [penis] product for Valentine’s Day, the Super Bowl this year was the most-watched TV program of all-time, Marshawn Lynch was in Vegas for the game greeting Niners fans after the game, Trump is trying to get the trial related to the mess he made on January 6th moved until after the election, he gave a big endorsement to his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, and BJ Ramer talks from an aquarium in North Carolina to find out how a stingray got pregnant by another species of baby shark.

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Mike Catherwood (Swole Patrol) visits KROQ

KROQ, June 5, '18; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, C. Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

Tweeter Mike Catherwood has his own podcast with Dr. Drew and guests: Swole Patrol

Crazy Dr. Shawn Baker invents "all meat diet" and looks like cr*p (Mike&Drew/Swole Patrol).

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After being fired from KABC AM for being too much when someone safer, though less funny, was needed, drug addict Mike D. Catherwood reappeared at his old stomping ground, KROQ (106.7 FM). He was the second most successful co-host of Loveline behind Adam Corolla.

Mike Catherwood was thrown off of Dr. Drew Midday Live to make room for Lauren

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Then he was disappeared  apparently to make room for Allie MacKay or because the same problems he brought to "Dr. Drew Midday Live" followed him to the "Kevin & Bean Show." It's not as if they were paying him to show up, so it's strange that neither Kevin Ryder nor Gene "Bean" Baxter would stand up for him at the station to become a regular feature on their morning show.

Latino comedian Mike Catherwood was tossed off of Kevin & Bean to make room for Allie

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I need a job. I'll do a podcast! (Ralph Garman)

The K&B Show is in desperate need of HUMOR after the firing of failed actor-comedian Ralph Garman, who lost his other job with Kevin Smith "Hollywood Babble On" due to a heart attack, Smith's not his own. Mysteriously, the day Mike comes in for a visit, Allie MacKay is absent.

• Are they not able to work together?
• Was she out in protest that he was coming in?
• Does he creep her out?
• Did they use him to fill in knowing she was going to be out?
• What's going on there? (Don't expect K&B to tell. They'll do anything to stay in the good graces of their corporate overlords, including getting everyone else fired so they can keep their fat paydays, cutting off longtime friends like Lisa May (picked up by FHF at KLOS 95.5 FM), kissing up to Allie, or going without humor on a "comedy" show.

To hell with Lisa May (R) then with Ralph (L)

On June 4th, suddenly here was Psycho Mike being announced as the next day's special guest. He was just coming in to talk about health, diet, and building muscle for the impending summer.

We have to fit in those swimsuits somehow, and we are all fat, flabby, or both -- even in the sexiest state in the union, Californication. Catherwood appeared on June 5th, and here's the show: kroq.radio.com/media/audio... Also on the show "Alex Jones," "LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa" on Election Day, Kanye West's new drop (cr*p), and more but no Allie.

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  Swole Patrol  with Mike Catherwood

  AUDIO: Swole Patrol with Mike Catherwood (Dr. Drew official website) Swole Patrol Podcast is a comprehensive and unflinching look at the world of health and fitness. Hosted by Mike Catherwood and Dr. Drew Pinsky. 
• Swole Patrol Archives (DrDrew.com) 
• Swole Patrol Podcast (@SwolePatrolPod) on Twitter Health and fitness for weightlifters, athletes, and budding vegans doing it out of conscience with @MikeCatherwood and medical doctor... 
• Swole Patrol (podcast) - Player FM 
• Swole Patrol by Playroom Podz on Apple Podcasts

How to talk to our teens about sex (TED video)

TED Radio Hour, 4/6/18; Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How Should We Talk to Our Kids About Sex? (13:46), Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode "Turning Kids into Grown-Ups."

That's it? What's it for? - I don't know, son.

"Dad, what's a clitoris?" "Achkk, ask your mother!" "Are you kidding? She's not going to tell me anything. I doubt she knows, and if she does, she sure's not comfortable enough to share it with me." "Then go to the library!" "Wait, what am I thinking? I have a dumb phone and Wikipedia and YouTube videos! Thanks, dad!" "Hold on, son. I'd like to know myself. Let's look it up together. But whatever you do, don't tell your sister. She must never know!" "Okey-dokey."

 

About Peggy Orenstein's TED Talk

Author Peggy Orenstein warns us: If parents don't educate kids about sex -- the mainstream media will. She says that leads to risky behavior and keeps young females from expecting equality in sexual relationships. VIDEO (transcript - download) 

• TED: What we don't talk about (when we talk about sex)

Related NPR Links

• Girls and Sex and the Importance of Talking to Young Women about Pleasure
• Saving our Daughters from an Army of Princesses
• Dodging Disney in the delivery room

Who is Peggy Orenstein?

For the past 25 years Peggy Orenstein has written extensively on a wide range of issues affecting girls and women. From princess culture to the adolescent confidence gap to sex, she reveals uncomfortable truths about the role of girls and women in our culture -- and its consequences. Orenstein is the author of Girls And Sex, Schoolgirls, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, and most recently, Don't Call Me Princess. She is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.

• TED Bio: Peggy Orenstein
• TED Talk: The Lies We Tell Pregnant Women

How to talk to teens about SEX

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

When my parents told me to sit down, I thought I was in trouble. Then when they said, "We want to talk to you about sex," I was relieved and answered, "Sure, what do you guys want to know?" thinking they had to know that I knew more about it than they did. They shamed me and got me in trouble. We never talked about it again. :/

 

Parent-child communication: Promoting safety (Advocates for Youth) In a recent study, teens who benefited from perceived from parental guidance and who reportedly had a “good talk” with parents in the last year about sex, birth control, and the dangers of STDs were two times more likely to use condoms at the last time they had sex than teens who did not talk to their parents as often.

 
Tips for Talking to Kids About Sex (Planned Parenthood) Research tells us that kids and teens who have regular conversations with their parents and caregivers about sex and relationships are less likely to take risks with... The most important thing is to make it really clear to your kid that they can ask you questions or come to you for support without fear of shame or judgment [or you freaking out like a jackass who hasn't dealt with his/her own issues around sex].

 
Why parents should have the "Sex Talk" with their children (well.blogs.nytimes.com) It's not a one-time chat, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos says. “Talk to your child on a regular basis.” Take on the tough topics, like pleasure, birth control, and sexual orientation. Pay attention to teens. Teens in intense romantic relationships are more likely to have sex, especially if... 

 
Teen Sex Ed: Instead of promoting promiscuity, it delays first sex... (healthland.time.com) Utah lawmakers gave a nod to what could become the nation's most restrictive sex-education policy if it passes: no talk of contraception and no mention of homosexuality. No mention of much, in fact, besides an emphasis on abstinence before marriage, if that. 

 
Basic requirements: Contraceptive knowledge and access (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books) 

 
Contraceptive Decision-Making in Sexual Relationships: Young... (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc) In one scenario participants were asked to comment on a situation where they were having sex with a female for the first time without condoms and the female partner asked them about using a condom. In another scenario participants were asked how they would handle a situation where their girlfriend did not want to use...

What Do You Do If You Discover Your Daughter is Having Sex? (tolovehonorandvacuum.com) If your child has been having sex at someone else's house, then they're not allowed to go that house anymore. If they've been having sex...I'd talk to the parents and tell them that you have a rule that they cannot be alone in the house, and you would ask the parents to support that rule. If you feel as if they...

This Is What Sex-Positive Parenting Really Looks Like (HuffingtonPost.com) A lot. It's fascinating to them. And when you're a small child, you have no sense of shame or disgust or fear of your body. Your body is what it is. ...That doesn't mean I talk with my 4-year-olds about how great sex is and how good it feels. ...And when they're older, we'll start talking about contraception.
 
When Sex and Dating are the Same (childtrends.org) A percentage of female adolescents who report they have ever had sex. Yet when it comes to contraceptive use, research tells a different story: one of racial and ethnic disparities. In particular, young ... We drew on results from these same focus groups and interviews to develop a second brief, titled Let's (Not) Talk About. Sex:...
 
Carnal Knowledge: The Sex Ed Debate (Health: Children's health, nbcnews.com) Soaring rates of sexually transmitted diseases among teens are adding urgency to the debate over sex education. Conservatives claim the alarming statistics illustrate why a...

National Geographic apologizes for racism

Prof. Hub Brown, Libby Denkmann (AirTalk®, Pi Day, 3-14-18); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

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I'll take that one, on the left. How much?*

As National Geographic finally admits it has been promoting implicit bias, white supremacy, stereotyping, ethnic prejudice, scientific racism, and apologizes in general for past racist coverage, will other US media follow suit?
 

I like reading it. It's a very good magazine.

As part of its April issue focusing on RACE, National Geographic (natgeo.com) made the bold move to acknowledge its own past racist coverage.

 

To explain the magazine’s decision, Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg wrote: “We thought we should examine our own history before turning our reportorial gaze to others.”

Me, too. If I read.

The list of past missteps included a slavery-era slur being used to describe California cotton workers and a 1916 story on Australia with a photo caption that read: “South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings.”

 

While this admission is unexpected, the content is not surprising given that National Geographic has been around for over 100 years, and they certainly aren’t alone in their offensive past.

"Post Truth World" of Trump (ThisModernWorld.com by Tom Tomorrow)

I don't read Nat Geo, just da Bible. It's a Southern thang. All y'all wouldn't understand.

I don't read, but if I did, I'd read this 1

For instance, The New York Times reported that it retroactively wrote obituaries for women who were initially overlooked.

And in 2016 Louisville, Kentucky’s The Courier-Journal publicly apologized for continuing to publish Muhammad Ali’s "slave name" Cassius Clay rather than his adopted freeman's name, even after the boxer legally changed his name in 1964.
 

National Geographic’s move has been trending on social media, and whether or not the response around it has been positive, it’s definitely been a conversation starter.

Libby Denkmann

What do readers think about National Geographic’s acknowledgement of past racist coverage? Will it prompt other media publications to do the same?

Are you yourself more apt to read the magazine now, or does this hinder you from supporting the old time magazine? More + AUDIO

• GUEST: Associate Professor of Broadcast and Digital Journalism and Associate Dean for Research, Creativity, Int'l Initiatives and Diversity at Syracuse Univ. Hub Brown

*White men didn't RAPE black children as "property," did they?

I wish it were the olden days! - Why, John?

Because of the power relationships at work, slave females in the United States were at high risk for child molestation, rape, and forced impregnation.
 

Many slaves fought back against sexual attacks by whites, and some died resisting.

 

It's not what it looks like!

Others carried severe psychological and physical scars from the attacks. Sexual abuse of slaves was rooted in part in a patriarchal Southern culture that treated black [and Native American] women and children as property or "chattel."

Black children as young as 6 were advertised and sold by white men to other white men to "satisfy their lust." It was not an aberrant practice looked on as violent "child molestation" and/or rape, but just a property right.
 

He loves black girls. - But with his tongue?

Whereas Southern culture strongly policed against sexual relations between white women and black males -- purportedly on the grounds of "racial purity" -- by the late 18th century, the many mixed-race slave children showed what white Christian slave owners were doing to slave girls and women. More

• SoCal students and the National School Walkout
• Red to blue: Dems claim victory in Pennsylvania
• Trump blocks Broadcom’s $117 billion Qualcomm bid
• ACLU sues Trump for separating asylum-seeking families
• Libby's favorite hit TV show "Queer Eye" is back – but it’s not just about gay makeovers anymore

Curious? So's the government. Big Brother spies from low-earth orbit and you say nothing.

How to talk about PORN with TEENS (video)

NPR's Joshua Johnson (The1A.org); Maggie Jones; Prof. Emily Rothman; Al Vernacchio; Erika Lust (ThePornConversation.org); Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Who needs sexting when we have Instagram and SnapChat? (Ava Locklear-Sambora)

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Porn and the Teenage Brain

My mom doesn't know I watch and touch my...

There is a lot of pornography on the Internet. And there are a lot of teenagers with smartphones [accessing that porn].

It seems obvious that teens would watch. But maybe it isn’t.

In The New York Times magazine, Maggie Jones writes that parents underestimate how much pornography their kids watch on their phones.

And many teens who watch porn before taking sex ed or forming sexual relationships end up with skewed ideas about intimacy, consent, and pleasure.

Combine this with mainstream depictions of sex and relationships, and, as Jones writes:

If I can't have Sex Ed in school, I'll teach myself.

These images confound [and confuse] many teenagers about the kinds of sex they want or think they should have [such as masturbation, anime, lesbianism, dating violence, homosexuality, joyful orgasm, incest, rape, beastiality, demeaning sex, consensual relations, use of condoms, orgies, coercion, punishment, Mormonism, sodomy, healthy portrayals, cartoons... -- the good, the bad, the ugly].

In part, that’s because they aren’t always sure what is fake and what is real in porn. Though some told me that porn was fantasy or exaggerated, others said that porn wasn’t real only insofar as it wasn’t typically two lovers having sex on film. Some of those same teenagers assumed the portrayal of how sex and pleasure worked was largely accurate.

That seems to be in keeping with a 2016 survey of 1,001 11-to-16-year-olds in Britain. Of the roughly half who had seen pornography, 53 percent of boys and 39 percent of girls said it was “realistic.”

And in the recent Indiana University national survey, only one in six boys and one in four girls believed that women in online porn were not actually experiencing pleasure: As one suburban high school senior boy told me recently, “I’ve never seen a girl in porn who doesn’t look like she’s having a good time.”

• AUDIO: LISTEN NOW (NPR)

This is a handheld porn computer.

Solutions like removing pornography from the Internet or smartphones from teenage life are difficult to the point of being technologically or socially impossible.

So some educators are trying something new…porn literacy.

 

For this radio episode of "1A," listeners are invited to share their stories about how pornography has affected them and their children’s ideas about sex.

Look at that brass me, so shiny!

Call (855) 236-1212 and share a story. And don’t worry, no need to reveal your name [because the caller ID will provide that and more as it does for all 800 numbers when you call in to radio stations; call from a payphone]. More


GUESTS

• Maggie Jones, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, @maggiepjones
• Dr. Emily Rothman, associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. Co-author of the course, "The Truth About Pornography: A Pornography-Literacy Curriculum for High School Students Designed to Reduce Sexual and Dating Violence," @emrothman
• Al Vernacchio, sex educator, speaker, author of For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Sexuality, Values, and Health, @alvsexed
• Erika Lust, adult film director and producer, creator of the pornography education website "The Porn Conversation," designed to be a resource for parents, @erikalust

REACTIONS

How the brain and orgasm conspire in consciousness (Awaken Consciousness)

 

No, sex is wrong!

(WQ) How dare you talk about this taboo subject on a sex-positive Buddhist site! How dare you be a sex-positive site! This is a shameful subject! You should be ashamed of yourselves! We should all be ashamed of ourselves!

God is going to punish us! Don't tell the kids!! They can figure it out when they go to college or leave home!!!

(Doc edited by WQ) As a society we have taken one of [the] greatest gifts to us and demonized it. I'm talking about sex! Sex is the most beautiful interaction two individuals in love can experience together.

But we have taken this gift and made it something we cannot talk about, we can't think about, we can't enjoy without feeling guilt. Is it any wonder our kids turn to porno?

 

Ignorance is not bliss; it is simply ignorance. Young minds want to know things; they will do whatever it takes to learn. How do you want them to learn? Let's talk with our adolescents in an open and honest conversation. Yes, sometimes the most valuable conversations will be the toughest. 

P.S. You are not allowed to think about pink elephants! Q: What did you just think about? [A: Sex. ;/ NOTE: If you order kids NOT to do something, that's exactly what you will get them to focus on until they begin to obsess.] Discuss

 

RESOURCES

WARNING: These links may contain frank discussions of sex.

• Scarlet Teen
• Planned Parenthood's Teen Page
• The One Live Foundation
• Resources for teens and parents
• 1A:  Twitter - Facebook
• Erika Lust's site, The Porn Conversation:

The Porn Conversation

Facts- Our mission-Who we are- Educational Tools-Resources- Collaborate-Contact

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Lesbian teacher arrested for child molestation

This project offers tools for parents to teach younger generations about porn (they're already watching).
 

Day by day it’s more difficult to exercise control over what our kids are watching online. They are exposed to grossly distorted visual depictions of sex at very early ages.
 

We think that prohibition and shame are NOT the answer. Instead, we believe education and conversation are.

By choosing to shed light on the debate about online pornography, we are campaigning for more equipped and alert young beings ready to make better choices driven by knowledge not fear. More

Role model Trump: President porn watcher [blanked] porn star to cheat on his wife.

• PORN: A Conversation Between WOMEN (Buzzfeed) Six women discuss pornography, its place in our lives, and what a perfect porn future would look like.
• VIDEO: World's tallest teen, UK's Brandon Marshall