John Van Arnam

Organization: The Third Talk ™

Title of workshop: The Third Talk™: The pornography prevention conversation for parents and their young people.

Contents summary:

In this presentation, The Third Talk™ will outline the scope of the challenge, the strategies to avoid the hurt this content can cause our children and the ‘how and why’ to keep this conversation going throughout adolescence into adulthood.

Biography:

Over the past twenty-six years, John Van Arnam, the Founder of The Third Talk™ has been acutely aware of the slow burn occurring in our society that has now manifested into the inescapable incapacitation of our young people's sexuality through their early and continual exposure to online pornography. With 19 years of child advocacy, search engine content management, and corporate team experience, John combines relationship management, business intelligence and thoughtful leadership to provide healthy sexuality-based education campaigns that instruct children, and their parents, on real world strategies to avoid youth exposure to online pornography. A natural ease around young people and their parents has enabled John to create easily absorbable messages for children and their guardians in a way that does not shame, blame or use colorful language. A natural leader, speaker, trainer, coach and communicator, John is an architect of large projects, and has a “go-getter” attitude that is infectious and professional. His unapologetic delivery and straightforward attitude, combined with humorous anecdotes and an unapologetic delivery are what is needed to stem the tide of youth exposure to pornography. His work continues to adapt and change to the needs of this special time. John serves on many committees surrounding healthy sexuality including the NC Human Trafficking’s Demand Reduction Task Force.