Sexting, Pornography and our Digital World: How to Protect our Children from Today's Hyper-sexualized Pop Culture
Or Ami Center for Jewish Parenting invites the community to an important conversation with sociologist, author and activist Dr. Gail Dines, who will discuss how digital media, and the ease in which our children can access pornography, is negatively impacting our children. This important conversation will help educate parents on how to support healthy child and youth development in relationships and sexuality. Her research-driven information teaches parents to recognize and respond to the role media and on-line pornography can play in sexual violence, unhealthy relationships, internet and sex addictions, negative self-image, and adolescent depression. Join us to learn more about what your children are exposed to on their phones, computers and in the media, and leave empowered with information to protect, resist and heal the harm that can come from our digital world. Truly an important conversation.
Dr. Gail Dines is a professor and chair of sociology at Wheelock College in Boston, and has been researching and writing about the porn industry for well over twenty five years. Dr. Dines is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America, one of the founders of the Haifa based Media Research Center, and author of numerous books and articles. Gail Dines is a regular guest on television and radio shows including ABC, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, and National Public Radio. She has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Guardian, Vogue, Marie Claire,Cosmopolitan, and writes for the Huffington Post. In October 2017, she will be presenting at a Vatican-convened conference where the Pope, joined by other World leaders, will be signing a declaration on the protection of the child from digital abuse.