It's Time We Talked/Understanding autism: Relationships, sexuality and pornography
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  • $30

Understanding autism: Relationships, sexuality and pornography

  • Closed
  • Webinar
  • Started Oct 9, 2023 at 10:00 AM AEDT

This webinar series seeks to support parents and carers of autistic young people to understand the interactions between autism, sexuality, technology, and pornography, and how we can support autistic young people to navigate respectful, consenting and safe sexuality and relationships in the context of easily accessible online pornography.
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About the webinar

Pornography has become a default sexuality educator for many young people, but its messages can be a source of confusion and concern, and shape unrealistic and unhealthy sexual understandings and expectations. 

This webinar series seeks to support parents and carers of autistic young people to understand the interactions between autism, sexuality, technology, and pornography, and how we can support autistic young people to navigate respectful, consenting and safe sexuality and relationships.

The presenters

Dr. Wenn Lawson is an autism expert, researcher, poet & author. He is a family man with autistic children & grandchildren. In 2021 Wenn won the Lesley Hall, disability leadership lifetime achievement award. Wenn is passionate about all things LGBTQIA+ and autism... www.wennlawson.com

Maree Crabbe is Director of the Australian violence prevention initiative, It’s time we talked. She is an educator, author and filmmaker who is passionate about gender-based violence prevention, and about supporting parents, schools, communities and government to address pornography’s influence on young people. https://itstimewetalked.com 

Webinar information

Presentation format: A two-part webinar, delivered over two consecutive days, including presentations by Wenn and Maree, and time for questions.

Dates:
Part 1: Monday 9th October, 10am-12pm; 
Part 2: Tuesday 10th October, 10am-12pm
Cost: $30 per person; $15 concession.

Outline:
Part 1: 
  • About autism
  • Autism, young people and technology
  • Autism, young people, puberty and sexuality
Part 2:
  • Pornography and young people
  • How pornography’s impacts can be amplified for autistic young people
  • What we can do to address pornography’s influence
This webinar series is part of the Porn Is Not the Norm project. It is supported by Interchange Outer East and funded by Westpac. For more information on the project, visit www.notthenorm.com.au