Sext up kids : how children are becoming hypersexualized

The Resource Sext up kids : how children are becoming hypersexualized
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Sext up kids : how children are becoming hypersexualized
Title remainder
how children are becoming hypersexualized
Statement of responsibility
A Dreamstreet Pictures Production in associaton with the CBC ; director, Maureen Palmer ; producers, Rick LeGuerrier and Timothy M. Hogan
Title variation
  • Sexed up kids
  • How children are becoming hypersexualized
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Language
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
The powder keg that is porn culture has exploded in the lives of North American children. From thongs and padded bras for 9-year-old girls to "sexting," 24-7 internet porn, and unfiltered social media, kids today are bombarded with commercial sexual appeals like never before. In this astonishing new documentary, award-winning documentary filmmaker Maureen Palmer (Leaving Bountiful, How to Divorce and Not Wreck the Kids) explores what this radical transformation of the culture means for young people, parents, and our very notions of childhood. Palmer interviews researchers who have been tracking how the accelerating pressure to be sexy -- and sexual -- is changing kids' behavior and undermining their health. She sits down with parents and educators struggling to help kids navigate puberty in a hypermediated cultural environment that no longer seems to recognize or respect the developmental needs of children. And she talks to teens and pre-teens who share eerily casual insights into the routine role sex plays in their lives. The result is a stunning exploration of the sexualization of childhood and a startling wake-up call for parents who still think their own children are immune to the excesses and influences of today's sexed-up youth culture
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MaNoMEF
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videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, John Collins ; editor, Marcel Gallant ; music composer, Jac Gautreau
Date time place
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2012
Intended audience
  • Grade 9+
  • Higher education
PerformerNote
Narrator, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Runtime
42
Technique
live action
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