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Who is Bill Taverner? Planned Parenthood chief says children are born ‘sexual’, encourages porn literacy

'I think that the internet is a major influence on how people learn about sexuality, there's access to erotica, pornography,' Bill Tavern said

MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY: Bill Taverner, the executive director of the Planned Parenthood Center for Sex Education in New Jersey, has argued in favor of sexuality education at briefings for the US Congress. The Center provides training resources all around the nation and hosts the largest conference for sex educators in the United States.

"[We have] in our society, an assumption of asexuality of people with intellectual disabilities. It's a myth that's perpetuated, and really we are all sexual beings from birth until death," New York Post quoted Taverner as saying in 2015. In a manual titled 'Fundamentals of Teaching Sexuality', Planned Parenthood stated that "sexuality is a part of life through all the ages and stages. Babies, elders, and everyone in between can experience sexuality." Taverner originally argued in favor of teaching children about pornography in sex education in the year 2012, and he has done so ever since—at least through February 2021. In a 2012 interview, Taverner made it seem as though some "erotica" was "useful."

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Taverner said, "I think that there's this yearning for information that young people have that... hasn't changed. [The] delivery of how we get information is quite different. I think that the internet is a major influence on how people learn about sexuality."

"There's access to erotica, pornography," Taverner continued. "That was very different for young people 30 years ago. It's certainly not as accessible, certainly not as instantaneous. So there's a lot of information that is useful. Some of it is wrong, a lot of it is wrong. But there's good stuff out there as well."

Taverner goes on to say that advising students on how to use a condom is similar to teaching them about pornography in the classroom. He said, "There's a resistance to... if we talk about porn, [some think] is it going to make people want to watch it?"

Taverner continued, "Which is the same faulty kind of premise as if we teach about condoms, it's going to make people want to have sex with condoms or maybe that's not a bad thing." Additionally, he said that porn literacy will assist students in defining their opinions on the subject and will meet "people where they are."

Taverner said, "Getting back to meeting people where they are, if this is what they're doing with their cell phones and tablets and their laptops, then we need to shift our education and stop doing the banana on a condom and think that, you know, we've done our thing."

"So we need to present opportunities for young people to think about, for example, their values. You know, let's do an opinion activity. Let's do the ethics of porn. And that's not to say that there's a right answer," Taverner concluded.

Taverner has previously stated that some components of comprehensive sexuality education should start in kindergarten. He said, "Sexuality education is not isolated to a particular point in a person's life, it's a continuous process. Young children are learning about sexuality from the attitudes their parents display."

"When we think of K-12 education... we may be talking about what makes a family, we may be talking about disease prevention. All of that sets the foundation for a basic understanding that is useful for further conversations when we're talking about condoms... [and] pregnancy conversations. Age-appropriate sex education is so important. And we have to let our experts guide us," Taverner stated.