Despite many of our popular beliefs, the internet is not a safe place for our children to be roaming around. Pornography and predators seem to be lurking everywhere, just waiting to hook your child into their schemes. It is becoming increasingly important for parents to know the facts about their teenagers time spent online, as well as how to approach this topic with them. In this article we will explore the reality of what children and teens will be introduced to online and the ramifications of that exposure in their lives.
Why Watch Porn
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On a Saturday afternoon in winter, over herbal tea and raspberry slice, a Waikato mum of two invited her friends over to listen to her year-old son speak about being addicted to porn. Over two hours, Tom - not his real name - shared with them how it started when he was 11, that he struggled to see girls and women as anything more than objects for sexual gratification and how that culture is normalised among his peers. But what could have been an awkward conversation for a child to have with a bunch of women in their 40s and 50s was an open, first-person account that left him empowered. It left the mothers with rare insight into a teenage boy's mind, and equipped with knowledge to help them talk to their own children. Tom is now planning to share his story - which ends with him weaning himself off porn at the ripe old age of 14 and finding joy in life again - with more groups of parents. He tells the Herald on Sunday he first started looking at it "as a curious child who had just begun puberty". Read more Parents lose lawsuit over destruction of son's porn stash Katie Harris: Education needed to stop 'revenge porn' Government's online safety campaign features 'porn stars'.
Mum: 'I had no idea'
Those numbers jump up toward the end of adolescence. There are plenty of reasons to watch pornography or view pornographic images. It feels good.
Pornography porn is much easier for young people to access these days, and is now a primary sex educator for young people. Find out what you need to know to be equipped to be part of the porn conversation with young people. Pornography refers to media such as sexually explicit images or videos primarily intended to sexually arouse the audience. The porn landscape for young people has changed dramatically over the past 5 years in terms of how much porn is available, ease of access, how frequently young people watch it and the type of porn that is considered normal. Aggression is almost always aimed at females, and they most often respond with pleasure. Heterosexual and same sex porn show the same types of dominance, aggression and coercion. Children and young people nowadays have easy access to pornography due to the digital world they live in.
