Sexploitation

Helping Kids Develop Healthy Sexuality in a Porn-Driven World

By: Cindy Pierce

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

As surprising as it may be to parents, young people today are immersed in porn culture everywhere they look. Through Internet porn, gaming, social media, marketing, and advertising, kids today have a much broader view of social and sexual possibilities, which makes it difficult for them to establish appropriate expectations or to feel adequate in their own sexuality. Even more important, no one is talking to kids directly about the problem. Parents tend to convince themselves that their children are immune to cultural influences, wait until it comes up, or hope schools and pediatricians will address the issues. Educators and doctors may be able to start the conversation, but it is fundamentally a parent's job to provide information about sex and relationships early and often to help young people find their way through their social and sexual lives. Delaying the necessary but awkward conversations with their kids leaves them vulnerable. The media, marketers, and porn and gaming industries are eager to step in anywhere parents choose to hold back.

Sexploitation exposes the truth to parents, kids, educators, and the medical profession about the seen and unseen influences affecting children, inspiring parents to take the role as the primary sexuality educator. With more information, parents will gain conviction to discuss and develop values, expectations, boundaries, and rules with their kids. Kids who enter their teens with accurate information and truths stand a better chance of developing an "inner compass" when it comes to sex and relationships, which sets them up for a healthy adulthood.

In her comic and straightforward style, Pierce brings together the latest research with anecdotal stories shared with her by high school and college students in the thick of it.

©2015 Cindy Pierce (P)2015 Gildan Media LLC

Critic reviews

"Pierce cites a wide range of problematic media driven issues for kids (e.g., hypersexualized female body images, violent masculinity) and urges parents to enter into the dialog to give their children alternative ways to behave and think. While Pierce points out seemingly insurmountable pressures on today's youth, she devises a workable plan for guiding them toward healthy life choices." ( Library Journal)

One of the most important books written ever!

Just loved it!!! Couldn't stop listening! Amazing!!! A must book for parents, educators and therapists !!!

Good but better and more information elsewhere

I wish they had a woman perform it since the author was a female. Good content go read For Goodness Sex!!!!!

Female author but male reader

I found it strange listening to a male reader of a female authored book.

I still enjoyed the book. It is very well written.