Oregon parents outraged over sexually explicit tenth-grade health lesson on porn

Parents in Oregon are outraged after tenth-grade students were exposed to sexually explicit language during a health lesson about internet pornography, according to a report.

The Hillsboro School District’s lesson presentation caused concern after a number of slides were posted in the Facebook Group “Oregon Moms Union” last week that revealed a number of sexually explicit terms many parents were not comfortable exposing their children to, according to Fox News.

“I think it would make a lot of grown-ups blush,” Oregon Moms Union co-founder MacKensey Pulliam told the outlet. “The way that they went about teaching it and some of the content that was on the slides was really explicit.”

One slide, titled “Popular Categories” shows a number of emojis and their internet porn term equivalent, including p—y licking, big d–k, and big ass. 

Other slides include information on “what porn shows as the norm” as well as the “range of normalcy” around reasons people watch or do not watch porn.

Another shares information about child pornography laws and the risks of sexting and “revenge porn” — or sharing someone’s nude photographs without their consent.

Another slide is titled “Child-Like Porn & Power Dynamics” followed by terms like teen, barely legal, step-brother and “Daddy’s Little Girl” as examples.

Beth Graser, a communications officer for the school district, confirmed to Fox News that the slideshow is part of a state law mandating “students receive age-appropriate instruction to help them recognize and respond to unsafe situations and increase awareness of child sexual abuse.”

“Pornography is not promoted in these lessons,” Graser said, likening them to how the schools teach about suicide prevention. “We utilize research-based materials and clear language as we teach students these sensitive topics.”

Pulliam, whose children attend school in a different district, told Fox that a parent had posted the slides after viewing the lesson in-person at school.

Some members of the Facebook group thought the backlash against the lesson was an overreaction.

“You’re all getting triggered by the explicit words, but the message is obviously a warning that they should not believe the situations depicted in porn are normal,” one Facebook user wrote, according to Fox News.

“These kids live on the internet. Your teen children have all discovered porn, and they will not tell you that.”

Others agreed with Pulliam that the language went too far.

“I can’t imagine being a teacher standing up in front of a classroom full of girl minors — like a male teacher — saying some of these words,” one social media user, who goes by Coco, told Fox News after her posts about the slides were viewed more than 100,000 times.

“This has no place in a school whatsoever, I don’t can’t what grade, it’s not appropriate. And I don’t think most high schoolers, middle or most upper elementary kids are naive,” Rebecca Gorman responded to a photo of the slides on Facebook.

All parents receive a letter notifying them about the sexual education lessons and are given the option to pull their children out of some specific classes or the entire program, Glaser told Fox.

The district said that the lessons meet Oregon Department of Education standards as it shows how media can impact our personal health and our society.

Oregon legislators passed “Erin’s Law,” in 2015, which requires schools to offer age-appropriate sexual abuse prevention programs for all students in kindergarten through the end of high school, Fox News reported.