People have wildly different responses to porn. As a therapist, often the sexual issues my clients have wanted to work on have to greater or lesser degrees involved problems with different attitudes towards using porn. Some see it as a harmless pastime while others feel degraded by the mere thought of it. For some too, using porn gets out of control and has detrimental effects on them and those around them. In times gone by, catching a glimpse of top shelf magazines was probably a mark of triumph for lots of teenage boys. Nowadays things are very different and the ease with which sites hosting shocking images and videos can be accessed is really worrying for some people. Not all porn is violent, but some would argue that even in the "milder" genres someone has been degraded merely by taking part, or even by watching it. Although pretty much every taste is catered for, including a preference for "ordinary bodies", porn can depict unrealistic sex that lasts for an extremely long time and involves "enhanced", hairless bodies that never seem to tire or succumb to age. While porn can cause issues for adults, we also know that teenage brains are not as formed as may have been previously understood and there has been much research done into how watching violent, degrading and highly sexual imagery can affect people who are still developing physically, emotionally and mentally. In the NSPCC survey about young people and porn, a teenage boy is quoted saying "I'm always watching porn and some of it is quite aggressive.
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Every 39 minutes, a new pornographic video is made in the United States. Internet Filter Review, Family Safe Media, December 15, Youth who look at violent x-rated material are six times more likely to report forcing someone to do something sexual online or in-person versus youth not exposed to x-rated material. Roughly two-thirds 67 percent of young men and one-half 49 percent of young women agree that viewing pornography is acceptable.
Teens & Young Adults
Those are different issues. The question I want to explore is how a parent should react if they discover their growing child — typically 12 or older — is deliberately looking at sexually explicit material on the Internet. There are a number of reasons why kids look at pornography. Interest in sex and voyeuristic behavior to satisfy sexual urges are completely normal. Whether the young person makes up images in his head, gets them from television shows, movies, magazines or images on the Internet, the process is much the same. The first answer is not to freak out. Take a deep breath and spend some time thinking about the situation before you do anything. How you respond to the situation can have more of an effect than the exposure itself, according to Richard Toft, a child psychologist in Palo Alto, California. There are laws involved, there is responsibility involved, and there is a life long impact of everything they do whether they want to admit it or not.
While the age of digital information is here to stay, and indeed benefits humanity in many ways, its risks to kids and adolescents cannot be stressed enough. One such risk is exposure of kids to age-inappropriate content such as pornography — the elephant in the room that must be tackled before the damage gets out of hand. How does porn affect young kids? Can kids watch porn? Should kids watch porn?
