Nelson Kimberly M, Campbell Julia K, Rahimian Arianna N, Frieson Tomeka M, Moslander Delaney E, Richardson Victoria E, Rothman Emily F
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA, 02118.
Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord St, Boston, MA 02118.
Sex Res Social Policy. 2025 Mar;22(1):413-422. doi: 10.1007/s13178-024-00944-1. Epub 2024 Mar 5.
Despite evidence that pornography is used by adolescents to learn about sex, there are no empirically supported, school-based sex education programs currently available in the United States (US) that include education about pornography.
This qualitative study, conducted in 2022, inquired with high school health teachers (=9) and administrators (=8) in Massachusetts about students' sex education needs and barriers and facilitators to the provision of education about pornography as a part of school-based sex education.
There is a clear need and desire to include education about pornography in school-based sex education, but there are also substantial barriers. Some of these barriers are logistical (e.g., having enough time to cover the topic), while others are more political (e.g., concern about pushback from the school board, parents, and the community). Even with those concerns, participants provided multiple strategies to decrease the likelihood of pushback and expressed hope that the needs of the students would prevail.
A critical next step will be to take a community-informed approach to develop and assess the feasibility and acceptability of education about pornography within a school context.
Teachers and administrators in the US are facing a barrage of political and legislative campaigns that seek to limit or control the topics they teach. To facilitate the inclusion of education about pornography in school-based sex education, policies at the local, state, and national levels will need to state that such education is a necessary component of current sex education curricula.
尽管有证据表明青少年会通过色情内容来了解性知识，但美国目前尚无基于学校的、有实证支持的性教育项目包含有关色情内容的教育。
这项2022年开展的定性研究，就学生的性教育需求以及将色情内容教育纳入校本性教育的障碍和促进因素，询问了马萨诸塞州的9名高中健康教师和8名管理人员。
在校本性教育中纳入色情内容教育有着明确的需求和意愿，但也存在诸多障碍。其中一些障碍是后勤方面的（例如，没有足够时间涵盖该主题），而其他障碍则更具政治性（例如，担心来自学校董事会、家长和社区的反对）。即便有这些担忧，参与者还是提供了多种策略以降低遭到反对的可能性，并表示希望学生的需求能够得到满足。
关键的下一步将是以社区为导向，制定并评估在学校环境中开展色情内容教育的可行性和可接受性。
美国的教师和管理人员正面临一系列旨在限制或控制他们所教授主题的政治和立法活动。为便于在校本性教育中纳入色情内容教育，地方、州和国家层面的政策需要声明，此类教育是当前性教育课程的必要组成部分。
