Pornography Impact on Youth

You made a good point stating that 14-18 years old are not children. They are teenagers. When you're at this age, your hormones and sexual desire are at a huge level. So, with or without porn, boys (and girls) tend to think about (and talk about) sex all day. Many young boys and girls masturbate, too. We have a hard time accepting that because teenage sexuality is still a great taboo in our society. Why? Because we like to think that sexual maturity goes along with intellectual maturity, ho

I understand this is unpopular on HN and I don't think this is the right approach either but what is the solution? Or do you think there's no problem at all? I think it is a potential problem where some young people don't realize that some fairly disgusting and extreme sex acts are not the norm and start dating thinking that is what you do instead of loving someone, that would cause them serious issues in developing relationships.

Free and unlimited access to hardcore pornography of any type when you are in your early teens is relatively new. No generation has been exposed to such a stream of heavily sexualized content before, both online and offline.I mean the porn of 50 years ago seems tame by todays standards. Exposing children to such adult themes before they have even fully developed can't be a good thing.

This kind of porn has been around for decades and very few people actually do that kind of stuff. Something that's published isn't automatically a role model.And the ones that do are really and truly into it. Yes it happens, it's not my kind of thing either but I know some people that love it.What helps more is real sex ed. Explaining what sex is about, how to respect a partner, about safety. Rather than really easily circumventable bans. I got good sex ed when I was young i

Pornography normalises sexual behaviour that would otherwise be less prevalent. Totally cool amongst consenting adults. It’s a genuine concern for parents though that kids get a lot of ideas about sex from porn. Making any kind of child porn even without harming children normalises sexual abuse.

What's interesting about this to me is that there's no mention of pornography. In an earlier era porn would have been an issue of highest priority, but I guess the world has accepted that people can view porn without harm. Even the "Protect our kids" section doesn't mention porn.

I am going to say something that is not popular to say but has been on my mind for a while.Why is it bad for our kids to see two humans have sex?When you say porn is bad for kids, I think you mean that mainstream porn can be misogynistic, addictive (like most pleasurable things), and give people unrealistic body standards and expectations about what sex is like. All of which I agree with.Okay, so, if I had a website that just showed consensual sexual relationships between a husband and

To play a devils advocate for a second - when I was growing up(in the 90s) I also saw porn way too early than even remotely appropriate - a friend had a VHS tape that he got somewhere, we had to find a moment in time when his parents weren't home, and we put it on for like 5 minutes, we were so scared we were going to be found out we immediately dumped the tape afterwards and didn't find the contents even remotely exciting - I remember just being really disgusted by it(turns out the ov

How old are you? I'm 29, and also recall that when I was in my teenage years we all saw various bits of pornography- magazines, a few extremely slow loading web pages, but nothing like what is available today.As nemof described, a lot of porn today is much more extreme than that, and could give teenagers a very skewed sense of "normal" sex. I'm not advocating filtering internet content, but I think it's at least worth discussing what effect this might be having on tee

Even before internet, many (most ?) teenagers had access one way or another to sexual contents. Videotapes, magazines and so on... I wonder why it's such a big deal. I think it's the role of the parents, or even school, to educate them about this.