Posh NY private school slammed over 'porn literacy' class teaching 'kink and BDSM', search terms like 'creampie'
Parents of students at an elite $47,000-a-year private school in New York are outraged that "porn literacy" classes were added to their children's curriculum. The class not only was an embarrassing affair for the children but also affected their other classes. Parents and students called out the school for making such an addition to their curriculum without their permission.
Some are even accusing officials at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, of attempting to "indoctrinate kids" with the porn literacy class.
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When the juniors at the school showed up for a health and sexuality seminar, they thought it was supposed to be just another lecture about condoms or birth control. But they were in for a surprise as they were then made to sit through a lesson called 'Pornography Literacy: An intersectional focus on mainstream porn'.
Taught by Justine Ang Fonte, the director of Health & Wellness at a different elite prep school, the lecture included an explicit slideshow that aimed to teach 120 boys and girls everything that there is to know about porn.
According to a report in The New York Post, among the things taught in the lecture were how porn takes care of "three big male vulnerabilities" and statistics on the "orgasm gap" explaining how straight women have far fewer orgasms with their partners than gay men or women. In addition to that, the slide reportedly also included images of partially nude women - some in bondage - to determine the differences between art and porn.
A lesson in porn terms
A list of the most searched porn terms in 2019 including “creampie,” “anal,” “gangbang,” “stepmom” among others. The report adds that one slide cited various porn genres such as "incest-themed", consensual or “vanilla,” “barely legal,” and “kink and BDSM” (which included “waterboard electro” torture porn as an example).
Speaking to the Post, a female student recounted: "We were all like, ‘What?' Everyone was texting each other, ‘What the hell is this? It’s so stupid.’ Everyone knows about porn. The worst part of it was that it took place not long before the AP tests and I had to miss both my AP classes for this.”
'Marketability of OnlyFans'
Another part of the presentation focused on what was called the "marketability of OnlyFans". A student who was present there revealed that most of the kids aged between 16 and 17 watched the lesson on Zoom from home. That is probably what alerted parents. Some others were, however, on campus and gathered in the gym together to watch it on their laptops.
'Why is this OK?'
"We were all so shocked and mortified," the female student continued. "We were all like, ‘Why are they doing this? Why do they think it’s OK?’
“We were supposed to answer questions about the porn stuff in the Zoom chat but we were all side-chatting in group chats and tons of kids thought it was so dumb that they sent the link to their friends all over the city and they were all logging on with the password.”
The girl's mother, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Post she was "incredibly frustrated" by what happened. "None of the parents knew this was planned. We were completely left in the dark. It makes us wonder what else the school is up to," she said.
'Indoctrination of children'
Another parent told the outlet it was "outrageous" that the pre-k-12th grade school was "introducing pornography into a mainstream classroom and starting to indoctrinate kids." "The goal of this is to disrupt families," they added. "Why is the school making porn a priority as opposed to physics, art, literature or poetry?”
Three parents said they asked school administrators to show them the slideshow but were denied. One mother reportedly sent a letter to the school and was given an appointment to discuss with administrators by Zoom, she said.
