NY Times blasted for defending 'pornography literacy' for first graders: 'These people are sick'

Concerned parents and media critics swatted the New York Times on Thursday after the newspaper heralded Justine Ang Fonte, a New York teacher who recently became infamous for her sexual education curriculum for children and young adults, as a "sex-positive educator," and called her lessons "pornography literacy."

But the Times had a different viewpoint on the controversy and appeared to provide Fonte some backup. "Pornography literacy classes are supposed to teach students how to critically assess what they see on the screen," the Times tweeted, with a link to its report from Style reporter Valeriya Safronova. "But when a sex-positive educator taught her curriculum at two elite New York City schools recently, some parents were outraged." The Zoom lessons never used the term "masturbation," according to Fonte. Instead, Safronova notes, "The lesson was about private parts being private and included a cartoon in which two characters use anatomically correct names for their genitals and say that sometimes it feels good to touch them. ‘It’s OK to touch yourself and see how different body parts feel, but it’s best to only do it in private,’ the narrator tells viewers."