Who is Bill Taverner? Planned Parenthood chief says children are born ‘sexual’, encourages porn literacy
MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY: Bill Taverner, the executive director of the Planned Parenthood Center for Sex Education in New Jersey, has argued in favor of sexuality education at briefings for the US Congress. The Center provides training resources all around the nation and hosts the largest conference for sex educators in the United States.
"[We have] in our society, an assumption of asexuality of people with intellectual disabilities. It's a myth that's perpetuated, and really we are all sexual beings from birth until death," New York Post quoted Taverner as saying in 2015. In a manual titled 'Fundamentals of Teaching Sexuality', Planned Parenthood stated that "sexuality is a part of life through all the ages and stages. Babies, elders, and everyone in between can experience sexuality." Taverner originally argued in favor of teaching children about pornography in sex education in the year 2012, and he has done so ever since—at least through February 2021. In a 2012 interview, Taverner made it seem as though some "erotica" was "useful."