Sext Up Kids
Sext Up Kids
Sext Up Kids
SEXT
UP
KIDS
[Transcript]
INTRODUCTION
Narrator:
Little
girls
entranced
by
a
world
of
make-believe.
Playing
princess,
putting
on
makeup,
wearing
high
heels,
wanting
to
look
older.
But
not
this
kind
of
older.
Controversy
rages
over
sexualization
of
little
girls.
From
hit
TV
shows
to
high
fashion
spreads
in
Vogue
to
amateur
dance
sensations
on
YouTube,
little
girls
are
strutting
their
stuff
before
they
even
have
any
stuff.
Susan
Linn:
Little
girls
are
going
from
toddlers
to
teenagers
with
just
about
nothing
in
between.
Narrator:
The
desire
to
look
older
younger
is
what's
fueling
the
tween
market
a
market
increasingly
sexualized,
making
prepubescent
girls
look
like
porn-stars.
Alexandra:
We
have
to
become
bustier
at
an
earlier
age.
We
have
to
be
very
skinny
at
an
earlier
age.
Narrator:
And
as
ever-younger
boys
have
24/7
access
to
hard-core
internet
porn...
Teen
Boys:
I
want
to
say
in
grade
four
or
grade
five.
/
Six
or
seven,
like
I
had
a
friend
over
at
my
house.
/
Ok,
dudes
on
top
of
the
girl,
that's
what
sex
is.
Narrator:
...Some
girls
now
feel
pressure
to
deliver
porn-star
performance.
Peggy
Orenstein:
Anal
is
becoming
the
new
oral.
Narrator:
Smartphones
and
social
media
make
it
possible
not
only
for
kids
to
consume
X-
rated
images
but
to
produce
them
with
devastating
consequences.
Dot:
My
heart
just
dropped.
I
was
like,
how
many
people
have
seen
me
like
this?
Narrator:
Forcing
kids
to
grow
up
in
a
hypersexualized
world.
Title
Screen:
Sext
Up
Kids
SEXUALIZED
CHILDREN
&
MARKETING
Narrator:
These
images
are
unsettling.
For
some,
even
titillating.
Somehow,
sexualized
children
have
become
part
of
our
culture.
Somehow,
letting
eleven
year
olds
dress
like
this
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has
become
okay.
Who
would
actually
let
their
kid
walk
out
the
door
like
that?
Well,
millions
of
parents
because
this
clothing
sells.
By
degrees,
preteen
clothing
moved
from
sassy
to
suggestive
to
outright
sexy.
It's
called
sexualization,
and
it
has
become
the
new
normal
thanks
in
large
part
to
a
concept
invented
by
the
marketing
industry.
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on
screen:
KAGOY
Narrator:
"KAGOY":
Kids
are
getting
older
younger.
Susan
Linn:
What
the
marketing
industry
decided
to
do
is
to
say,
"Well,
if
three
year
olds
want
to
be
thirteen
year
olds,
let's
market
to
them
as
if
they
were
thirteen
year
olds.
And
if
eight
year
olds
want
to
be
sixteen
year
olds,
let's
market
to
them
as
though
they
were
teenagers."
Narrator:
That
market
is
now
worth
an
estimated
150
billion
dollars
a
year
in
the
U.S.
alone.
And
it's
dominated
by
junior
versions
of
teens
favorite
stores.
A
survey
of
fifteen
major
American
clothing
store
websites
found
about
a
third
of
girls
apparel
was
considered
sexualized
with
everything
from
push-up
bras
and
thongs
to
micro-mini
skirts
aimed
at
adolescent
shoppers.
Girl:
Cinderella.
The
Princess
and
the
Frog...
Narrator:
But
the
slide
into
sexualization
may
begin
at
a
much
earlier
age,
starting
with
something
as
innocuous
as
playing
princess.
And
when
it
comes
to
playing
princess,
Disney
has
cornered
the
market.
With
over
26,000
items,
'princess'
is
now
the
hottest
girls'
brand
on
the
planet.
And
every
little
girl
knows
their
names
by
heart.
Girls:
Belle,
Snow
White,
Jasmine,
Arial,
Rapunzel,
Sleeping
Beauty
and
Cinderella
from
Cinderella.
Narrator:
Just
guess
what
they
want
to
be
when
they
grow
up?
Girl:
A
princess.
/
A
princess
too.
/
Be
a
princess
too.
Peggy
Orenstein:
It
is
cute.
It's
really
adorable.
Who
doesn't
like
to
see
their
little
girl
walking
around?
And
there's
this
way
that
it's
very
precious,
and
it
feels
like
something
protective
against
sexualization,
but
I
think
there's
a
real
compelling
argument
to
be
made
that
it's
priming
them
for
sexualization.
When
there's
just
one
form
of
play
that
they
do
for
three
years,
and
it's
all
about
being
the
prettiest
of
them
all
and
the
fairest
of
them
all,
that
becomes
problematic.
It
goes
really
quickly
from
being
the
prettiest
little
girl
to
needing
to
be
the
hottest
little
girl.
And
its
emphasis
is
over
and
over
on
beauty,
on
externals,
on
your
defining
yourself
through
how
you
look
to
others.
And
that
primes
girls
and
pushes
them
towards
the
hypersexualization
that
happens
at
an
older
age.
Girls:
[Singing]
"Happy
Birthday
Zoe!"
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Narrator:
That
older
age
is
now
about
seven.
That's
when
girls
get
bored
with
Princess
Barbie
and
beg
for
dolls
with
attitude.
Peggy
Orenstein:
So
first
we
had
the
Bratz
dolls
that
had
the
big,
pouty
lips
that
are
highly
glossy,
and
they
had
those
heavy
eyeshadows
and
they
had
tiny
little
skirts.
And
they
looked
really
Barbie
seems
quaint
by
comparison.
These
dolls
look
like
little
Sesame
Street
walkers.
Narrator:
And
if
Bratz
dolls
aren't
racy
enough,
consider
the
dolls
from
Monster
High.
Susan
Linn:
They
go
beyond
Barbie.
They
go
beyond
the
Bratz
dolls.
They're
more
anorexic
looking.
They
are
more
sexualized
than
even
the
dolls
were
before.
And,
you
know,
the
Bratz
dolls
were
really
pretty
bad
to
begin
with.
Narrator:
Even
under
the
watchful
eye
of
parents,
toy
manufacturers
and
marketers
have
a
captive
audience.
Federal
law
now
allows
advertisers
to
market
directly
to
kids
on
television
with
very
few
restrictions.
And
those
restrictions
disappear
on
the
Internet,
where
most
six
year
olds
navigate
freely
to
their
favorite
toy
sites.
Susan
Linn:
Children
can
be
targets
for
marketing
any
time
of
day
or
night,
and
marketers
can
bypass
parents
as
they've
never
been
able
to
before.
Peggy
Orenstein:
It's
going
to
be
dolls,
it's
going
to
be
books,
it's
going
to
be
a
movie,
it's
going
to
be
a
TV
show,
it's
webisodes,
it's
clothing,
it's
accessories.
Narrator:
The
American
Psychological
Association
has
been
tracking
the
impact
of
this
avalanche
of
sexualized
toys
and
clothing
on
girls.
According
to
the
APA's
landmark
study,
as
girls
hit
the
teen
years,
the
damage
mounts.
Dr.
Deborah
Tolman:
There
were
strong
associations
with
negative
health
outcomes:
mental
health,
depression,
self-esteem.
Sexualization
was
associated
with
more
risk-
taking,
lack
of
condom
use.
Narrator:
Marketers
now
even
sell
'stupid'
as
sexy.
For
example,
the
Be
Stupid
campaign
by
Diesel
jeans.
Some
of
the
campaign's
most
controversial
billboard
images
have
been
banned
in
Britain.
PUBERTY
&
SELF-ESTEEM
Narrator:
At
the
core
of
concern
about
sexualization,
just
as
girls
hit
puberty,
they
start
seeing
themselves
as
objects
of
someone
else's
needs
and
desires.
Dr.
Deborah
Tolman:
We
learn
how
to
sexualize
ourselves.
It
makes
us
very,
very
self-
conscious
all
the
time
because
we're
thinking
about
what
we
look
like
all
the
time.
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Kim
Benson:
They're
bombarded
with
it.
It's
in
every
fiber
of
their
social
life.
Part
of
the
problem
is
they're
not
even
understanding
what
it
is.
They're
not
understanding
that
they're
being
carried
along
in
this
wave
of
being
sexualized.
Narrator:
She
should
know.
Back
in
the
80s,
Kim
could
have
been
the
poster
girl
for
sexualization
as
a
popular
"Sunshine
Girl"
pinup
in
the
Winnipeg
Sun.
Kim
Benson:
Here's
a
picture.
Yeah,
I
totally
did
it
for
attention.
You
know,
if
you
get
put
in
a
paper
and
a
magazine
and
everybody's
going
to
look
at
you,
you're
popular,
you're
famous
that
kind
of
thing.
Narrator:
She's
hoping
her
daughters
don't
follow
in
her
footsteps.
So
every
chance
she
gets,
she
points
out
sexualized
content
in
pop
culture.
Kim
Benson:
Katy
Perry
in
"California
Gurls,
she's
half
naked,
and
she's
humping
cotton
candy,
shooting
whipping
cream
from
her
cupcake
breasts.
And
I
always
say
to
my
girls,
You
don't
see
Bono
in
a
G-string
humping
cotton
candy
to
sell
his
music.
ONE
WAY
TO
BE
FEMALE
Dr.
Gail
Dines:
This
is
the
first
time
ever
you
would
be
in
a
room
full
of
people
and
they
would
all
know
who
a
so-called
porn-star
is.
Narrator:
Author
Gail
Dines
is
also
fighting
back
against
sexualization.
Here
at
Boston's
Wheelock
College,
she
shows
her
students
how
pop
culture
is
fast
becoming
porn
culture.
Dr.
Gail
Dines:
Squeaky-clean
Hannah
Montana
Miley
Cyrus
is
aging
out
of
Disney.
What's
she
going
to
do?
She
has
to
be
visible
in
a
society
populated
by
Lady
Gaga,
Beyonc,
Rihanna,
all
of
those.
They
came
out
with
this.
And
this
marked
the
beginning
of
the
reshaping
of
Miley
Cyrus.
Narrator:
This
is
the
controversial
tween
angel
Vanity
Fair
photo
shoot
that
transformed
Cyrus
from
Disney
to
diva.
These
photos
of
Cyrus,
who
was
fifteen
at
the
time,
became
the
flash
point
in
the
debate
over
sexualization.
Dr.
Gail
Dines:
And
of
course,
the
image
with
her
father.
Would
you
like
to
sit
like
that
with
your
father?
The
S&M
gear
and
the
hypersexualized
look.
Now
when
you
look
at
Miley
Cyrus,
what
you
see
is
someone
who
fits
in
seamlessly
with
the
hypersexed
society.
And
remember,
to
be
visible
you
have
two
choices
in
a
hypersexualized
society.
You're
either
fuckable
or
invisible.
If
you're
thirteen
today
and
you
are
an
adolescent
needing
to
figure
out
what
it
means
to
be
female,
and
you're
going
to
sift
through
all
that's
on
offer
by
the
culture,
you
only
have
one
way
of
being
female.
The
kind
of
Britney
Spears,
Paris
Hilton
image,
which
is
this
hypersexualized
view.
You
have
to
either
buy
into
that
image
or
you
going
to
choose
invisibility
for
yourself,
and
you
know
what?
It
is
developmentally
out
of
step
with
adolescence
to
choose
invisibility.
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Paddy
McCallum:
You're
in
the
band
room
dancing
and
then
we
cut
to
you
dancing
somewhere
else,
then
we
cut
back...
Narrator:
In
the
media
studies
class
at
Chatelech
High
School
in
Sechelt,
B.C.,
these
girls
are
making
their
own
music
video,
emulating
their
idol
Miley
Cyrus.
Miley
Cyrus:
What's
up
guys,
it's
Miley.
Just
want
to
say
hello
to
everyone...
Narrator:
Like
millions
of
teens,
Miley
connects
using
a
webcam,
creating
a
kind
of
friend-
like
intimacy
with
her
legions
of
fans.
Their
idol
may
look
more
like
a
porn-star
than
a
pop
star,
but
that
doesn't
seem
to
bother
them.
Paddy
McCallum:
They're
not
particularly
shockable.
Their
tolerance
for
sexual
imagery
is
very,
very
high.
I
suppose
the
question
that
arises
in
anyone's
mind,
whether
you're
a
parent
or
a
teacher
or
in
the
minds
of
some
young
people
is,
should
there
be
a
level
of
shockability?
Chatelech
High
School
Teen
Girl:
Miley
just
got
twitter,
so
every
day
I
have
her
tweets
sent
to
my
phone,
which
is
over
there,
and
she,
like,
said
she
wasn't
feeling
well
today
but
all
of
her
fans
tweeted
her
and
they
were
just
like,
"Get
better
Miley."
You
know,
it's
cool.
Paddy
McCallum:
Now
the
challenge
is
more
how
to
get
kids
to
think
critically
about
something
that
is
very
much
part
of
their
world.
Very
much
bound
up
within
their
sense
of
community,
and
even
within
their
sense
of
their
bodies,
their
friendships,
their
relationships
and
their
world.
So
there
isn't
that
distance
anymore
between
the
media
event
and
the
viewer's
experience
of
that
event.
Narrator:
And
so
girls
don't
see
anything
wrong
with
coming
to
school
dressed
much
like
their
idols.
Paddy
McCallum:
It's
no
news
to
anybody
working,
and
particularly
in
high
schools,
that
the
girls
are
often
showing
up
and
you
know
the
fashions
change,
things
come
and
go
but
the
girls
are
often
showing
up
dressed
in
a
highly
sexualized
way.
Gail
Dines:
Our
young
girls,
their
backs
are
against
a
wall.
There
is
one
way
to
be
female
in
this
culture
and
it
is
a
way
that
sets
them
up
for
all
sorts
of
potential
abuse.
ACTING
SEXY
FOR
BOYS
Chatelech
High
School
Teen
Girl
Montage:
My
name's
Alexandra
/
Chloe
/
Dot
/
Callista
/
I'm
thirteen
/
Twelve
/
Fifteen
/
Sixteen
years
old
/
and
I've
been
called
a
slut
/
a
bitch
/
ugly
/
ho
/
cunt
/
whore
/
a
bitch
/
a
bastard
/
and
boys
say
bad
things
to
me
all
the
time.
/
They
don't
understand
how
hurtful
the
words
are.
/
If
you
stay
quiet
about
it
too,
you
know,
they'll
just
keep
picking
on
you
and
bugging
you.
/
You
kind
of
get
used
to
it
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while,
which
is
the
sad
thing.
/
It
makes
me
feel
bad.
It
makes
me
feel
pretty
bad
about
myself.
Narrator:
As
girls
are
bombarded
with
images
that
reinforce
their
value
as
sex
objects,
boys
learn
that's
just
how
to
treat
them.
Dot:
They
want
you
to
be
a
skinny
little
waist,
perfect
body,
nice
hair.
Alexandra:
We
have
to
become
bustier
at
an
earlier
age,
we
have
to
have
Be
very
skinny
at
an
earlier
age,
and
look
a
specific
way.
And
elementary
going
into
high
school?
Because
you
gotta
be
perfect,
you
gotta
be
that
girl
that's
gonna
be
standing
out
and
like,
"Oh
I
know
her,"
and
you
have
to
be
popular,
when
really
you
don't
have
to.
You
gotta
be
a
kid.
Narrator:
With
the
pressure
to
look
sexy
younger
comes
the
pressure
to
act
sexy
younger.
Dr.
Deborah
Tolman:
Showing
yourself
off
as
sexually
empowered,
as
a
performance,
which
is
really
what
I
think
not
all,
but
many,
young
women
are
doing.
Many
of
them
often
drunk,
certainly
in
the
Girls
Gone
Wild
videos,
it
really
is
a
performance,
and
performance
is
not
about
your
own
body.
Narrator:
The
message?
When
girl
meets
boy,
it's
all
about
the
boy.
Callista:
Well,
it
says,
"Decode
his
sex
style."
It's
about
her
finding
out
how
to
please
him
other
than
him
trying
to
please
her.
It's
all
about
him
apparently.
Dr.
Gail
Dines:
Cosmopolitan
is
probably
bought
by
the
tweens
market.
And
really
the
big
issue
in
Cosmopolitan
is
how
to
give
him
mind-blowing
orgasms.
If
you
read
Cosmopolitan,
you
would
never
know
a
woman
has
an
orgasm.
Callista:
In
this
picture,
it's
the
guy
on
top
of
the
girl.
It
says,
"Getting
on
top
might
prove
to
be
a
tussle
but
a
girl's
gotta
do."
Like
what?
A
girls
gotta
do
what
a
girls
gotta
do?
Narrator:
In
young
teen,
and
even
preteen
circles,
that
often
means
oral
sex.
Dot:
Boys
expect
you
to
be
into
that.
They
expect
you
to
be
like,
"Well,
I
expect
this
of
you."
And
what
if
you're
not
comfortable
doing
that?
What
if
you've
never
done
that
before?
You
don't
know
how.
You've
never
grown
up
with
it
because
you're
a
teenager,
you're
a
child.
You
shouldn't
know
all
that.
But
if
you're
in
a
relationship,
and
someone's
pressuring
you
to
do
something
like
that,
if
you
like
the
guy,
you'll
probably
do
it
just
for
him.
Alexandra:
And
to
make
him
happy.
Narrator:
No
wonder
twenty-year-old
Vanessa
Fraser
is
so
busy
these
days.
As
a
sex
blogger,
she
became
the
go-to
girl
for
thousands
of
teens
with
questions
about
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Girls
to
give
guys
oral
sex
when
they're
thirteen
and
fourteen
there's
really
no
pleasure
in
it
for
them
other
than
being
the
girl
that
did
that,
and
now
this
guy
might
like
you
or
this
guy
might
want
to
be
your
boyfriend.
Narrator:
The
more
girls
perform
for
the
boys,
the
less
they
think
about
themselves.
Peggy
Orenstein:
I
talked
to
one
of
the
top
researchers
in
girls
and
sexual
desire
and
what
she
told
me
is
that,
increasingly,
she's
seeing
that
when
she
asks
girls
how
an
experience
of
arousal
felt
to
them,
they
respond
by
telling
her
how
they
feel
they
looked.
And
she
has
to
tell
them
that
looking
good
is
not
a
feeling.
Narrator:
But
when
looking
good
and
acting
sexy
transform
their
idols
into
superstars,
teen
girls
can't
help
but
get
the
dominant
message
in
mainstream
pop
culture,
"Act
sexy
for
boys."
So
what's
that
say
to
boys?
Peggy
Orenstein:
Boys
are
completely
steeped
in
this
culture
where
girls'
sexuality
becomes
a
performance,
and
it
distorts
their
view
of
what
they're
supposed
to
want
and
what
they're
supposed
to
look
for
in
a
girl.
Narrator:
What
boys
look
for
now
in
a
girl
is
often
porn-star
performance.
And
there's
growing
evidence
they
are
getting
it.
Dr.
Ralph
DiClemente:
We
find
with
teenage
girls
that
twenty-two
percent
report
anal
sex
within
the
past
sixty
days.
TEEN
BOYS
&
PORN
Narrator:
As
the
pressure
to
sexualize
ever-younger
girls
intensifies,
ever-younger
boys
also
find
themselves
inundated
with
sexual
imagery.
In
their
favorite
magazines,
TV
shows
and
hottest
music
videos.
All
offer
up
essentially
what,
a
generation
ago,
was
called
"soft
porn."
But
the
game
changer
is
hard-core.
Not
the
kind
that
comes
in
a
brown
paper
wrap.
The
kind
that
comes
with
the
click
of
a
mouse.
The
kind
that
teen
boys
can't
get
enough
of.
Teen
Boys:
Probably
at
least
three
to
four
times
a
week.
/
Two
or
three
times
a
week.
/
Every
time
you
got
a
hard-on.
Dot:
That's
what
they
use
their
iPods
for,
they
get
the
Wi-Fi.
They
just
It's
everywhere.
Narrator:
When
it
comes
to
confronting
the
issue
of
teen
boys
and
porn,
most
parents
believe
it's
about
somebody
else's
kid.
But
with
an
estimated
seventy
to
eighty
percent
of
teen
boys
watching
online
porn,
turns
out
its
pretty
well
everybody's
kid.
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan:
Porn,
in
many
ways,
is
becoming
the
super-educator
in
terms
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Boys:
It
was
my
first
full-blown,
fully
naked
chick.
/
Ok,
the
dudes
on
top
of
the
girl,
that's
what
sex
is.
Paddy
McCallum:
If
there's
an
elephant
in
the
room
right
now
that
we're
not
talking
about
in
schools,
it's
pornography.
The
amount
of
pornography
that
the
boys
are
able
to
access;
the
young
age
at
which
they're
accessing
it.
Teen
Boys:
I
wanna
say
grade
four
or
five.
/
Six
or
seven,
like
I
had
a
friend
over
at
my
house.
/
You
type
in
"naked
chicks"
or
"titties."
Its
that
easy.
Narrator:
The
Internet
makes
porn
affordable,
accessible
and
anonymous.
And
just
so
easy
for
boys
to
find
their
favorite
sites.
Teen
Boys:
"xandxx.com"
/
"pornhub.com"
/
"youporn.com"
/
"youjizz.com"
Narrator:
No
one
really
knows
the
effect
hard-core
porn
has
on
kids,
but
there's
an
urgent
need
to
find
out.
The
key
question...
Dr.
Ralph
DiClemente:
Whether
there
is
in
fact
a
relationship
between
exposure
to
sexually
explicit
material
and
young
people's
behavior.
We
speculate
there
is,
in
fact,
particularly
for
much
younger
folks.
Fourteen,
fifteen,
thirteen.
Narrator:
Six
hundred
American
families
with
teenage
boys,
thirteen
to
seventeen,
have
allowed
Dr.
DiClemente
to
capture
all
the
data
off
their
home
computers.
The
study
will
examine
which
websites
they
visit
for
how
long
and
how
often.
Then
he'll
do
follow-up
interviews,
tracking
the
teen
boys'
attitudes
towards
sex.
The
average
thirteen
year
old
has
access
to
the
kind
of
hard-core
porn
that,
just
a
decade
ago,
was
out
of
reach
for
most
adults.
It
is
full
of
offensive
language.
The
sex
depicted
is
often
brutal,
featuring
acts
like
aggressive
oral
sex.
Dr.
Gail
Dines:
And
what
they
do
often
is
they
put
a
lot
of
mascara
on
her
eyes
so
that
her
eyes
are
running,
so
you
actually
get
evidence
to
see
that
she's
gagging.
Narrator:
And
everywhere,
anal
sex.
Experts
fear
the
enormity
of
content
and
ease
of
access
leaves
young
boys
with
a
distorted
idea
of
what
sex
is
all
about.
Dr.
Ralph
DiClemente:
Here
we
are
talking
about
sex
and
violence,
and
that's
a
very
combustible
combination
for
increasing
the
risk
for
young
people.
Narrator:
Girls
know
all
too
well
what
boys
are
watching.
Dot:
People
don't
really
talk
about
it
because
they're
like,
"Oh
that's
wrong.
But
I
know
lots
of
people
who
do
that
secretly
and
then
it
influence
the
way
they
act,
the
way
they
treat
girls,
and
the
way
they
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Alexandra:
It
also
changes
them,
their
personality.
It
makes
them
usually
a
lot
crueler
because,
when
they
look
at
this,
they
think,
"I
could
get
that."
Narrator:
And
there's
growing
evidence
they
are
getting
it.
For
instance,
anal
sex.
Peggy
Orenstein:
Anal
is
becoming
the
new
oral
so
that
the
new
way
that
girls
prove
that
they're
really
sexually
free
and
sexually
entitled
is
by
having
anal
sex.
Dr.
Ralph
DiClemente:
In
my
own
research
here
in
Atlanta,
we
find
with
teenage
girls
that
twenty-two
percent
report
anal
sex
within
the
past
sixty
days.
That's
not
in
a
year,
that's
in
the
past
two
months.
Ness
Fraser:
Young
males
and
young
females
who
watch
porn
are
seeing
that
and
are
seeing
the
porn-stars
are
enjoying
themselves,
so
obviously
I
would
be
enjoying
myself
as
well.
Narrator:
But
how
much
does
porn
influence
what
goes
on
beyond
the
high
school
hallway?
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan's
team
is
tracking
a
large
sample
of
adolescents
and
early
reports
suggest
young
girls
and
women
are
having
sex
when
they
are
not
ready
and
getting
hurt
as
a
result.
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan:
They
were
having
sexual
intercourse
without
being
sufficiently
aroused.
In
fact,
not
aroused
at
all.
And
had
little
understanding
that
they
needed
to
have
lubrication
for
intercourse
to
be
comfortable
penal-vaginal
intercourse.
Are
young
people
really
understanding
what
constitutes
healthy,
positive
and
comfortable
sex?
Narrator:
And
since
pretty
well
every
porn-star
shaves
or
gets
a
bikini
wax,
so
now
do
most
teenage
girls.
Just
ask
Gail
Dines'
students.
Dr.
Gail
Dines:
They
say,
You
know
here
I
was,
twelve
or
thirteen
I
didn't
know
what
pornography
was
and
yet
I
was
completely
waxing
and
shaving.
And
I
realize
now
that,
at
twelve
or
thirteen,
pornography
has
shaped
the
way
I
thought
about
my
body
without
even
knowing
what
pornography
was.
Narrator:
Then
there's
Jenna
Rose,
the
newest
YouTube
teen
sensation.
Only
she's
not
even
a
teen.
She's
twelve.
Her
provocative
performance
in
her
online
hit
"O.M.G"
caught
the
attention
of
Laci
Green,
whose
YouTube
channel
about
sex
gets
millions
of
hits.
Laci
Green
on
YouTube:
Chalk
full
of
pseudo
strip
dances,
hip
swinging
and
some
Victoria's
angel-esque
lingerie,
"O.M.G"
is
a
visual
landscape
of
lusty
twelve
year
olds.
I
feel
creepy
that
those
words
are
even
coming
out
of
my
mouth.
Laci
Green:
It
was
a
new
low
because
I
haven't
really
seen,
up
until
this
point,
lingerie
on
children.
It's
not
even
just
revealing
clothing.
It
is
clothing
that
has
been
culturally
assigned
for
sexual
situations,
which
is
a
pretty
explicit
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Narrator:
And
the
launch
of
a
French
lingerie
line
designed
for
girls
age
four
to
twelve
has
sparked
more
outrage.
Laci
Green:
This
creates
a
bridge
to
child
pornography
or,
sort
of,
puts
a
damper
on
the
exploitation
factor
of
child
pornography
as
if
it's
not
really
as
bad
as
we've
been
thinking
it
is.
So
now
we're
just
going
to
get
one
step
closer.
Get
a
little
bit
closer
to,
at
this
point,
making
children
out
to
be
like
adults
and
to
be
sexualized
in
a
way
that
adults
have
been
sexualized.
Narrator:
While
pop
culture
presents
little
girls
as
little
women,
porn
goes
to
great
lengths
to
portray
young
women
as
prepubescent.
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan:
There
seems
to
be
a
greater
emphasis,
more
than
ever
in
pornography,
on
the
barely
legal
or
teens.
Even
to
the
point
with
the
hairlessness,
and
the
girls
with
pigtails
and
everything
they
do
to
make
them
look
as
young
as
possible.
Narrator:
Coming
up,
it's
not
only
pornographers
who
sexualize
young
people.
Thanks
to
smart
phones,
kids
can
do
it
themselves.
Dot:
The
boy
I
was
sexting
was
in
grade
eight.
He
thought
it
would
be
funny
if
he'd
send
it
to
ten
of
his
friends.
Narrator:
Social
media
makes
it
possible
not
only
to
consume
sexualized
images
24/7
but
to
produce
them
with
often
disastrous
consequences
for
kids.
Dot:
My
heart
just
dropped.
I
was,
like,
how
many
people
have
seen
me
like
this?
SOCIAL
MEDIA
Narrator:
Probably
the
last
thing
you'll
ever
see
a
teenager
do
on
a
phone
is
actually
talk
on
it.
While
teenage
boys
now
send
about
2,500
texts
per
month,
girls
send
more
than
4,000.
That's
an
average
of
135
texts
a
day.
And
then
there
are
those
who
send
a
few
more.
Teen
Girl:
My
mom
checked
my
last
phone
bill.
I
had
17,000
texts
received
and
sent
in
a
month.
Narrator:
Most
teen
girls
either
text
about
boys
or
to
boys.
Call
it
today's
version
of
pillow
talk.
Teen
Girl:
We,
like,
literally
text
each
other
every
second
since
he
added
me
on
Facebook.
Narrator:
Since
Facebook
is
the
place
where
so
many
teen
relationships
begin,
social
media
has
made
being
sexy
online
as
important
as
it
is
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Dr.
Susannah
Stern:
They
are
oftentimes
now
repackaging
their
representations
of
themselves
to
fit
the
mass-mediated
model
of
beauty,
popularity,
of
sexuality.
Narrator:
But
all
that
time
in
the
virtual
world
can
make
girls
feel
closer
to
boys
they
barely
know
in
real
life.
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan:
Computer-mediated
communication
tends
to
accelerate
intimacy
in
a
lot
of
ways.
You're
not
immediately
in
front
of
someone
so
you're
somewhat
less
self-
conscious.
So
people
report
feeling
very
close
to
someone
that
they
don't
know
very
well,
very
quickly.
Narrator:
According
to
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan,
girls
who
text
the
most
are
also
the
most
likely
to
experiment
sexually.
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan:
Hypertexters,
those
who
are
people
really
in
the
top
one-quarter
of
texting
frequency,
had
a
four
times
greater
chance
of
a
number
of
different
sexual
experiences
a
year
later
than
did
their
same
age
peers.
Narrator:
O'Sullivan's
research
also
suggests
texting
primes
the
pump
for
sexting.
In
her
survey,
almost
thirty
percent
of
teens
admit
to
sending
a
naked
or
near
naked
picture
of
themselves
to
a
crush.
But
what
happens
when
that
picture
goes
viral?
In
middle
school,
three
of
these
four
girls
sent
nude
or
seminude
photos
of
themselves
to
boys.
Dot:
I
was
in
grade
seven.
He
thought
it
would
be
funny
if
he'd
send
it
to
ten
of
his
friends.
And
then
when
I
got
to
high
school,
it
came
up
when
I
was
in
grade
eight
and
someone
actually
showed
me
the
picture.
And
that
was
horrible.
My
heart
just
dropped.
I
was
like,
how
many
people
have
seen
me
like
this?
I
regret
so
much
of
that
night.
That
year
was
hard,
and
I
had
a
lot
of
people
calling
me
names
like
that,
and
they
had
proof
on
their
cellphones
of
what
I
did.
And
I
can't
take
that
back
ever.
Dr.
Susannah
Stern:
We
also
have
to
understand
that
a
young
person
doing
this
isn't
a
bad
kid.
Isn't
doing
something
bad
in
their
minds
but
is
doing
something
that
feels
very
comfortable,
probably
safer,
than
having
some
kind
of
real
sexual
encounter.
Alexandra:
I
met
this
one
guy
and
we
started
talking
and
then
he
asked
me,
"Can
I
have
a
picture?"
And
I
said
yes.
And
I
wasn't
fully
naked.
I
was
in
a
bra.
But
that
picture
went
not
only
through
a
lot
of
my
friends
but
a
lot
of
my
family.
And
a
lot
of
those
people
also
passed
on
that
picture
and
also
still
hold
it
against
me.
Dr.
Susannah
Stern:
Adults
do
so
much
hand
wringing
because
they
look
at
individual
girls,
and
oftentimes
their
parents,
and
say,
"How
could
you
do
such
a
thing?
Why
would
you
do
such
a
thing?"
And
it's
not
shocking
to
me
at
all.
I
mean
if
you
look
across
our
culture,
everything
is
saying,
"Promote
yourself,
flaunt
yourself,
exhibit
yourself."
If
young
people
weren't
picking
up
on
that
message,
they're
missing
the
dominant
mainstream
message
to
young
people
today.
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Teen
Girl:
It
was
embarrassing.
Its
embarrassing
when
that's
your
body
with
no
clothes
on
in
front
of
everyone
and
everyone
sees
you.
And
everyone
sees
you
like
that
until
that's
gone,
and
it
never
really
is,
so...
And
it
hurts.
Jesse
Miller:
How
many
of
you
on
Facebook
have
over
a
hundred
friends?
Over
three
hundred?
Over
four?
Narrator:
It's
a
story
that
is
all
too
familiar
to
social
media
expert
Jesse
Miller.
He
teaches
grade
seven
and
eight
students
across
British
Columbia
about
the
downside
of
being
sexy
on
social
media.
And
even
he
is
shocked
by
what
kids
are
willing
to
show
and
tell
online.
Jesse
Miller:
More
and
more
I'm
seeing
content
where
kids
are
saying,
"You
know,
this
is
me.
And
this
is
me
in
this
private
environment."
Narrator:
Unsettling
to
most
parents,
to
most
kids
'private'
is
increasingly
public.
Partly
because
private
often
means
any
place
their
parents
aren't.
Often
that's
online.
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan:
We
think
that
they
equate
being
private
about
something
with
being
ashamed
about
something.
They're
not
ashamed
of
their
sexual
lives.
That's
actually
a
very
refreshing
trend
in
this
sexual
world
in
many
regards.
But
a
consequence
of
that
is
there's
almost
no
privacy
in
their
sexual
lives.
Narrator:
By
explaining
life
before
the
Internet,
Jesse
Miller
tries
to
make
kids
understand
just
because
technology
makes
it
easy
to
do
something
doesn't
make
it
smart.
Jesse
Miller:
If
I
want
to
take
a
photo
of
myself,
the
first
thing
I
had
to
do
was
buy
a
roll
of
film.
I
take
24
pictures
of
myself
in
front
of
my
bathroom
mirror.
Then
I
take
that
film
and
I
go
to
the
store.
They
give
me
24
photos
that
are
printed
on
paper
and
I
turn
to
him
and
say,
"You
know
what?
I
would
like
to
give
you
one
of
those
photos.
Feel
free
to
write
comments
on
the
back.
Feel
free
to
'like'
this.
But
if
every
photo
you
took
on
your
digital
camera,
mom
and
dad
got
an
instant
copy
of
on
their
phone,
would
you
take
as
many
pictures?
Would
you
take
photos
the
same
way?
Narrator:
And
if
that
doesn't
make
kids
sit
up
and
take
notice,
this
usually
does
Jesse
Miller:
If
you
were
anybody
and
you
have
a
photo
or
a
video
of
a
child
underneath
the
age
of
eighteen
wearing
less
than
a
bathing
suit
on
one
of
your
laptops,
iPhones,
iPods,
whatever
it
is
you
are
in
possession
of
child
pornography
and
that
is
a
crime.
News
Clip:
Six
teenagers
at
Greensburg-Salem
High
School
now
face
charges
of
child
pornography.
Parry
Aftab
on
Early
Exclusive:
Kids
who
are
sending
naked
pictures
of
themselves
voluntarily
to
each
other
are
now
being
charged
as
registered
sex
offenders.
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Narrator:
These
days
the
sexploits
of
kids
are
fodder
for
the
nightly
news
across
North
America.
In
B.C.,
a
number
of
teens
face
child
pornography
charges
after
posting
pictures
to
Facebook
of
a
sixteen
year
old
girl
allegedly
being
gang-raped
at
a
rave.
Teen
Boy:
I
don't
think
she
was
as
messed
up
as
she's
making
it
out
to
be.
Teen
Boy:
She's
trying
to
turn
it
to
make
it
sound
like
she's
a
victim
of
something,
rather
than
to
say
that
she
did
something
and
that
she
knows
it
was
incredibly
idiotic.
Narrator:
Even
after
the
pictures
were
removed
and
police
told
kids
to
stop
blaming
the
victim,
the
attacks
and
the
name-calling
continued
on
social
media.
So
lawmakers
are
exploring
new
criminal
charges
to
control
whats
known
as
"aggravated
sexting":
when
naked
pictures
are
circulated
as
a
form
of
bullying
or
harassment.
Dot:
I
know
that
a
lot
of
those
kids
have
past
pictures
of
me,
and
I've
confronted
them
about
that.
And
for
my
knowledge
most
of
them,
and
probably
all
of
them,
are
deleted.
It
just
makes
me,
when
I
think
about
it,
makes
me
feel
a
lot
safer
and
a
lot
stronger
inside.
Narrator:
In
spite
of
living
in
a
hypersexualized
world,
girls
still
hold
out
hope
for
a
happily
ever
after
ending.
Paddy
McCallum:
They
want
the
romance.
They
want
to
be
loved.
HAPPILY
EVER
AFTER?
Narrator:
In
less
than
a
week,
school
is
out
for
the
summer
so
the
kids
at
Chatelech
High
School
in
Sechelt
reluctantly
drag
themselves
to
class.
Paddy
McCallum:
[reading]
"Had
we
but
world
and
enough
in
time
/
This
coineth
lady
were
no
crime
/
Rather
at
once..."
Narrator:
Paddy
McCallum
is
hoping
seventeenth
century
romantic
poets
will
capture
the
attention
of
his
distracted
students.
Paddy
McCallum:
[reading]
"We
would
sit
down
and
think
which
way
to
walk
and
past
our
long
loved
day..."
Narrator:
The
language
may
be
different,
but
to
the
girls
the
message
is
the
same.
Chatelech
High
School
Girl:
It's
just
a
really
pretty,
spiffy,
poetic
version
of
what
guys
are
all
still
saying
today.
Paddy
McCallum:
And
what
is
that?
Chatelech
High
School
Girl:
"Give
us
the
sex!"
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Chatelech
High
School
Girl:
Girls
are
just
growing
up
so
quickly
and
boys
are
and
everyone's
looking
at
porn
now
because
it's
so
available
to
everyone,
and
the
romance
is...
There's
no
romance
there.
Paddy
McCallum:
The
girls
are
really
feeling
that,
and
they're
holding
out
this
hope
that,
in
spite
of
all
the
porn,
and
in
spite
of
all
the
requests
that
are
being
made
on
them,
somewhere
in
there,
there
is
still
the
possibility
of
romance.
There
is
still
the
possibility
of
mystery
and
love
and
passion.
Narrator:
But
passion
and
romance
aren't
just
for
girls.
Sex
researcher
Lucia
O'Sullivan
has
studied
the
yearnings
of
both
genders
and
the
results
may
surprise
you.
Dr.
Lucia
O'Sullivan:
What
we
found,
actually,
is
that
both
young
men
and
women
have
a
much
stronger,
more
positive
association
toward
romance
than
sex.
Men
in
fact
didn't
show
this
bias
towards
sex.
Narrator:
But
even
if
they
crave
romance,
porn
may
rob
them
of
their
ability
to
enjoy
it.
Dr.
Ralph
DiClemente:
They've
gotten
some
phone
calls,
one
from
a
young
man
whose
now
in
his
twenties,
who
told
me
that
he
used
to
spend
a
lot
of
time
watching
online
pornography.
And
he
says
now
he
can't
have
a
real
relationship.
"I
just
can't.
I
just
don't
get
excited."
So
he's
actually
taking
this
fictional
relationship
that
he's
seen
on
the
net
and
he's
elevated
those
in
his
mind
as,
'these
are
normal
relationships,
healthy
relationships.'
Narrator:
To
bloggers
like
Vanessa
Fraser,
the
solution
is
clear.
Real
romance
and
intimacy
will
return
when
both
boys
and
girls
can
embrace
a
healthy
sexuality.
Ness
Fraser:
We
need
to
teach
girls
that
it's,
first
of
all,
that's
it's
okay
to
want
to
have
sex.
That
it's
totally
okay
to
be
enthusiastic.
Making
that
firm
decision
doesn't
make
you
a
slut.
It
doesn't
make
you
promiscuous.
It
makes
you
a
woman
who's
taking
charge
of
her
own
sexuality.
Laci
Green
on
YouTube:
Guilt
is
a
type
of
shame.
It's
shame
about
yourself,
your
partner,
about
your
relationship,
about
your
experiences.
Laci
Green:
When
I
was
twelve,
I
would
have
liked
to
have
had
a
strong
communication
system
about
sexuality
and
relationships
with
my
parents.
And
I
wished
that
it
wasn't
so
taboo
and
stigmatized.
I
wish
that
I
wasn't
made
to
feel
so
ashamed
of
it
and
guilty
about
it.
Ness
Fraser:
Very
few
teenagers
are
lucky
enough
to
live
in
a
household
where
there
is
an
open
dialogue
about
sex.
Kim
Benson:
Do
you
feel
pressured?
Chloe:
Sometimes.
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Kim
Benson:
To
do
certain
things?
Emily:
There
will
always
be
those
kinds
of
pressures
and
everyone
makes
mistakes.
Even
though
they
know
against
their
better
judgment
they
make
mistakes,
and
I
think
that's
just
part
of
being
a
teenager.
Narrator:
Back
at
the
Benson
home
in
Squamish,
Kim
strives
to
keep
the
open
dialogue
going.
The
former
pin-up
sets
the
stage
for
tough
talks.
Kim
Benson:
As
a
parent
you
can
think
of
it
as
a
privilege
that
you're
child
has
come
to
you
with
these
questions.
You're
privileged
to
have
the
opportunity
to
teach
your
child.
So,
no
judgment.
Narrator:
And
because
her
kids
don't
feel
judged,
they're
able
to
admit
when
they've
made
mistakes.
Emily:
Yeah,
I
feel
safe
to
fuck
up.
And
I
have
fucked
up.
And
I've
told
her.
And
it's
all
good.
Narrator:
Paddy
McCallum's
grade
twelves
have
also
made
their
share
of
mistakes.
Their
final
media
studies
assignment
is
a
message
to
younger
students
to
resist
the
pressure
to
sexualize
themselves.
To
hold
on
to
what
matters
most
a
childhood.
Class
Montage:
To
my
twelve
year
old
self.
.
.
/
Hitting
puberty
is
not
a
race!
/
Confidence
is
sexy.
/
Don't
diet,
you're
just
a
kid!
/
Real
boobs
feel
way
better
than
fake
ones.
/
Stay
a
kid
for
as
long
as
you
can.
/
Stand
up
for
what
you
believe
in,
stand
up
for
yourself.
/
Take
back
your
beauty.
/
Be
different
to
be
you.
/
Prince
Charming
does
really
exist;
just
he
doesn't
quite
look
like
what
you
think.
Keep
your
eyes
open.
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