Issues, Etc. A Commentary Promoting the Sexualization of Children from the American Sociological Association – Glenn Stanton, 10/16/25 (2894)
Oct 16, 2025
In this discussion, Glenn Stanton, Director of Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, delves into a commentary by the American Sociological Association that he finds alarming. He critiques its woke ideology, describing how it challenges childhood innocence and blurs critical boundaries between adults and children. Stanton emphasizes the necessity of firm age-based boundaries and warns of the ASA's growing cultural influence. He invokes Chesterton’s views on protecting childhood as a counterpoint and calls for awareness and scholarly pushback against such troubling narratives.
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ASA Reframes Childhood Sexuality
- The ASA commentary reframes childhood sexualities from vulnerability to a pleasure-centered, decolonial perspective.
- Glenn Stanton warns this rhetorical shift normalizes questioning age boundaries and sexual innocence.
Commentary, Not Research, Yet Influential
- The piece is a commentary, not original empirical research, yet it sets agenda questions.
- Stanton is concerned that respectable journals giving space to such commentaries lends legitimacy to radical ideas.
Innocence Called A Colonial Construct
- The commentary asserts childhood sexual innocence is a colonial fiction rather than a natural construct.
- Stanton argues that claiming innocence is constructed undermines societal protections for children.
