One in 10 UK children have seen porn by age 9 – report
from Christian Today:
An alarming new report by the Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, has revealed the devastating extent of children’s exposure to pornography.
The report is drawn from a survey of 1,000 young people and focus groups with teenagers aged 13 to 19.
While the average age at which children in the UK first see pornography is 13, the survey showed that 10% had seen it by age nine and over a quarter (27%) by the time they were 11.
A fifth of males aged 16 to 21 had viewed porn at least once a day in the two weeks prior to the survey.
“This is suggestive of a dependency which carries its own risk of interrelated harms,” the report said.
The report warns that pornography exposure is “widespread and normalised” and that young people are “frequently” exposed to violent forms depicting “coercive, degrading or pain-inducing sex acts”.
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