A sex ed cartoon created by non-profit children’s sex education group AMAZE instructs children that it is healthy and natural to watch pornography, then encourages youngsters to gawk at an animated man with a large phallus.
“Watching porn doesn’t make you a bad person,” the narrator says in the video made for young children. “It means you’re curious.”
“I mean, look at this guy’s penis,” said the narrator, as the cartoon man’s erection grew. “Isn’t it just unreal?”
Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham suggested the video may be “grooming” children.
This video was made by @amazeorg, an org that purports to teach children about “sex, relationships, & growing up.”
They’re telling kids it’s perfectly fine to watch porn.
But if you call this grooming, some “conservatives” will say you’re the bad guy.
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) April 8, 2022
This is far from AMAZE’s only video explicitly aimed at children. In fact, in a video describing the website’s purpose, AMAZE explains that its “flagship YouTube channel alone has over 50 million views.”
Perhaps ironically, AMAZE’s explanatory video also claims that – without resources like AMAZE – children may watch pornography to learn about the human body. AMAZE did not recommend adult videos to youngsters in that video, in which the tagline was “More info, less weird.”
The group is more than a YouTube channel, however.
According to AMAZE, the group “Leverages the expertise of sexuality educators, the creativity of animation professionals, input from our youth advisors and the power of the Internet” to create its puberty themed content for children and parents.
“Relationships, gender identity, to sexual orientation,” are specific topics mentioned in the video.
On its Frequently Asked Questions page, AMAZE declares that there is no age too early for children to begin watching their content. In fact, the website appears to suggest starting sexual education with children long before puberty.
“It’s never too early start talking,” the website declares. “Very young children have questions about their bodies, gender and reproduction. Tweens worry whether or not their bodies are developing “normally,” while older adolescents struggle to navigate peer pressure, changing relationships and emerging sexual feelings.”
In its Terms of Use, AMAZE says it is “intended only for users 10 to 14 years of age, educators and parents of very young adolescents.”
The Terms of Use also contains language meant to protect AMAZE from legal repercussions, should they spark from watching the group’s videos.
The group “assumes no liability for any diagnosis, treatment, decision or action you take in response to the information that is provided online or sent to you electronically in response to a message from you.”
According to its donation portal, money sent to AMAZE goes to Advocates for Youth, which is the “fiscal sponsor” of AMAZE.
Top issues for this group are “abortion access,” “growth and development,” “honest sex education,” “LGBTQ health and rights” and “reproductive justice.”
