One In Three Kids Has Seen Porn By The Time They Are Ten, Study Shows

A British study has found that most children experience porn before they experience relationships, leaving experts to wonder what damage this is causing them.

With only one quarter of parents discussing porn with their children, there is no help to make sense of these images.

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Porn has always been around but in my day it generally came after one had already formed an interest in sex. “Oh, I liked watching that guy take his shirt off, I wonder where I could see more pictures like that…”

The worrying thing about this study is that kids are being bombarded with hardcore sexual images before they have even had their first kiss.

The survey of hundreds of school children found some startling facts:

• One third of children by the age of 10 had viewed pornography online
• Hardcore pornographic material is regularly viewed by 8 out of 10 teenagers aged 14 to 16
• Two thirds watch hardcore pornographic material on their home phones
• 70% have never been intimate with anyone
• 75% of parents do not discuss this topic with their children

Pornography is not at all like real sex. It is rare to find anything where both partners respect each other and are lovingly focused on pleasing one another. It is not about human relationships but is about fantasy.

It is that aspect of it, the exaggerated and fantastical, that some experts worry could be messing with our kids minds.

“Porn shows sex in unrealistic ways and fails to address intimacy, love, connection or romance. It doesn’t mean every young person is going out to rape somebody but it increases the likelihood,” Michael Flood, a sociologist, told the Daily Mail.

Sex addiction therapist, John Woods, said “The pendulum has swing too far. We are allowing abusive sexual imagery to be accessed by children.”

The fact is that sex is often scary for children. Many times walking in on their parents having normal, boring, marital sex children are horrified by what they see. Without a framework of mature sexuality it can look aggressive and violent.

But what would they make of this?

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Children have a hard time separating fact from fiction with things they know and understand. How can we expect them to make sense of sex after viewing porn, when a movie can still convince them that they can fly?

Also read: What We Don’t Know About Porn Could Fill The Internet