Some of you may recall that Ayres wrote and co-starred in a sex ed television program for little kids for PBS in the 1960s. Many parents called his program "pornographic" and kept their kids home from school on the days it was shown. Yes, it was shown in California schools as well as on national television.
Ayres conveniently forgot to mention this sex ed series - the cornerstone of his career which garnered him national attention - when being deposed for a molestation civil suit. It was one of his former medical colleagues who spilled the beans about it to a journalist. The former colleague said the show was "disgusting," "over-the-top" and that Ayres used the show to "procure."
I just found an old article on the controversy about his program from the San Mateo Times Tribune. The article is dated June 13, 1968 and is titled Author-Doctor Defends Film on Family Life.
The story, by Carol Card, begins, Dr. William Ayres, author and narrator of educational station KQED's sex education series, reassured 50 persons in San Carlos last night that it was not too advanced because "children are involved in learning."
Then in the story he goes on to blame the parents for being too uptight, using baloney fake-professorial language. He said, "The controversy comes when parents, who already have knowledge and experience, are provoked by the details and distressed by pictorial example."
His language here - aside from being haughty and unbelievably arrogant, probably shamed some less educated parents into thinking that they were wrong and stupid and that the doctor knows best.
But in reality, Ayres was just doing what all pedophiles do - dividing and conquering. Pedophiles like Ayres tell kids, 'I'm on your side. Your parents don't understand you. Your parents are too strict."
Like pedophiles who kidnap kids and then show them *advertiser censored* to desensitize them to sex, Ayres used his graphic drawings of naked children ( mostly boys) so that he could tell the kids he eventually molested that he was doing it all for them. Can you imagine him giving his special brand of sex education to the kids in his sessions ? He would tell them, " I had my own television series. I am doing this to help you understand how to... masturbate. This is to help you learn."
The article goes on to say: His aim with the TV program, Dr. Ayres said, was to encourage students to "look around, learn about the world, understand people's differences, not get carried away by impulse and to have strength to back up their statements and morality."
Ayres conveniently forgot to mention this sex ed series - the cornerstone of his career which garnered him national attention - when being deposed for a molestation civil suit. It was one of his former medical colleagues who spilled the beans about it to a journalist. The former colleague said the show was "disgusting," "over-the-top" and that Ayres used the show to "procure."
I just found an old article on the controversy about his program from the San Mateo Times Tribune. The article is dated June 13, 1968 and is titled Author-Doctor Defends Film on Family Life.
The story, by Carol Card, begins, Dr. William Ayres, author and narrator of educational station KQED's sex education series, reassured 50 persons in San Carlos last night that it was not too advanced because "children are involved in learning."
Then in the story he goes on to blame the parents for being too uptight, using baloney fake-professorial language. He said, "The controversy comes when parents, who already have knowledge and experience, are provoked by the details and distressed by pictorial example."
His language here - aside from being haughty and unbelievably arrogant, probably shamed some less educated parents into thinking that they were wrong and stupid and that the doctor knows best.
But in reality, Ayres was just doing what all pedophiles do - dividing and conquering. Pedophiles like Ayres tell kids, 'I'm on your side. Your parents don't understand you. Your parents are too strict."
Like pedophiles who kidnap kids and then show them *advertiser censored* to desensitize them to sex, Ayres used his graphic drawings of naked children ( mostly boys) so that he could tell the kids he eventually molested that he was doing it all for them. Can you imagine him giving his special brand of sex education to the kids in his sessions ? He would tell them, " I had my own television series. I am doing this to help you understand how to... masturbate. This is to help you learn."
The article goes on to say: His aim with the TV program, Dr. Ayres said, was to encourage students to "look around, learn about the world, understand people's differences, not get carried away by impulse and to have strength to back up their statements and morality."