Young children becoming 'desensitised to pornography'

[arista]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02204/sexting_2204718c.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9954300/Young-children-becoming-desensitised-to-pornography.html

[Sex education lessons should include
modules on porn to enable children to
“recognise the abnormal nature of
these sexual expectations”, it was claimed.
The Association of Teachers and
Lecturers told how primary
school pupils were regularly watching
inappropriate films and
accessing pornographic websites.
In many cases, this has led to the adoption
of an increasingly “explicit vocabulary”
among the youngest pupils, it emerged. ]



Yes 8 year olds should not be getting to Porn Sites
it has changed some children to view women in a bad way
sadly.


Sign Of The Times

[Jesus.]

I walked in on my ma straddling my da when I was young. I've never seen anything on the internet that burned my retinas as badly as that.

[Marc]

It's true

[Jack_]

I don't see or have anything wrong with a 13 year old watching porn so long as they can and are taught to differentiate between what is essentially an act, and what is real life. It's like learning the difference between a soap opera and real life, and not to copy what you see on the soap. That's what needs to be taught in sex ed because no amount of restrictions is going to stop adolescents looking at porn, and I'm not entirely sure it should either...it's just part of growing up and natural sexual curiosity.

[Niall]

I think this is a very difficult thing to regulate, because I in no way feel that porn should be something that should be censored, but at the same time, I don't think that children of the ages mentioned in the OP should not be accessing that sort of material.

I think the answer lies in educating all parents into internet filtering software. Maybe the answer is a legal requirement on the part of ISPs to provide a free internet filtering option that's managed by them, but with constraints that are changeable to parents. It's probably not the most bomb proof option though (but there aren't exactly many options in the first place).

I do think that porn definitely needs to be incorporated into the sex education lessons taught by schools. In my time at secondary school, it was never discussed in our PHSE lessons, and in a way that's kind of terrible given that there are so many ethical concerns and issues surrounding pornography. Those concerns are something that I think most people my age don't exactly realise, and if more people were opened up to those issues I think that would definitely help with this sort of 'desensitisation' to it as mentioned in that article.

[Saph]

remember the days when you would type 'sex' into google and be terrified that the police would raid your house

[Omah]

Helen Porter, a teacher at St Gabriel’s School, Newbury, Berkshire, told the conference that frequent exposure to porn “results in desensitisation” to extreme images.

“The voyeur’s view of sex is so commonplace that it has now become normal, even for children,” she said. “Research by the LSE indicates that 90 per cent of children aged eight to 16 have viewed pornography on the internet, many of them unintentionally.

“For many young people, pornography now precedes sex and many will have seen hundreds of strangers having sex before they have any sexual contact with another person.”

Therein lies the problem - sexual abuse will be seen by these children as a "normal" relationship ..... :sad:

Any chance of an "emotional" relationship will be impeded by physicality ..... :idc:

[Jack_]

Sorry Omah, where's the reference to 'sexual abuse' in that extract? Cause I don't see one.

[Omah]

Sorry Omah, where's the reference to 'sexual abuse' in that extract? Cause I don't see one.

You think all the participants in pornography are above the age of consent, willing and well-paid ..... :amazed:

[Jack_]

Well that's an entirely different subject altogether. I don't know about anyone else but aged 13/14 I wasn't into specialist, illegal porn...most people I knew were just fine and dandy using youporn and pornhub...I'd imagine those that age who see anything worse than what's on there really are few and far between.

And whilst what you say is true, the large majority of it is above board so let's not drag this into a moral debate over pornography.

[Me. I Am Salman]

I used to watch porn when I was 11 rofl

[Omah]

Well that's an entirely different subject altogether. I don't know about anyone else but aged 13/14 I wasn't into specialist, illegal porn...most people I knew were just fine and dandy using youporn and pornhub...I'd imagine those that age who see anything worse than what's on there really are few and far between.

And whilst what you say is true, the large majority of it is above board so let's not drag this into a moral debate over pornography.

There's no point in having "a moral debate over pornography" - you say "I wasn't into specialist, illegal porn" ..... :bored:

..... and I've NEVER hear of "above board" pornography ..... :eek:

[Omah]

I used to watch porn when I was 11 rofl

But was it because you went looking for it or because it was "there"?

That's the crux - twenty years ago, few PEOPLE, let alone CHILDREN, had free and instant access to thousands of pornographic images and certainly not videos - now, many pre-pubescent children know how to instantly access vast amounts of explicit and violent (therefore illegal) pornography on the internet while their parents haven't got a clue.

[Me. I Am Salman]

idk, people just use to talk about it

[Omah]

idk, people just use to talk about it

Ah, because it was "there" ..... ;)

[letmein]

Porn is not going away. Sex and masturbation is biological. No going back now.

[Kizzy]

dutty....

[Ramsay]

http://askanatheist.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/kids.jpg

[Kizzy]

This is what early exposure to porn does....
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/BroodjeBauer/GIF/Stoned.gif

[lostalex]

When i was 11, there was no internet, I had to draw my own porn.

(i think this is the new version of having to walk to school barefoot in the snow)

I really did draw my own porn though. I used to draw these big muscle guys like from comic books, and i'd give them like 3 gigantic penises. When i was a kid we were much more creative!

and i also did jerk off to my x-men comics. they guys in comic books are super hot.

that's why japanese porn is so freaky, cause they still have censored porn.

[Kizzy]

Those mutant turtles have got a lot to answer for... :joker:

[lostalex]

kids nowadays have it so easy, they have no idea. even when we did get the internet, i think i was like 15 when my family got dial-up internet, the porn we did get was downloading an image, and remember how slow it would load? like 1 line at a time?

I so wish i had the internet when i was a kid.

That's why when i do have kids, there's no way ANY of them will EVER have a computer in their room.