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🔎 Have you ever wondered how being exposed to pornography at a young age can impact a person’s life? In today’s digital age, where explicit content is just a click away, the average age of first exposure to porn has drastically decreased. Let’s delve into how early exposure to pornography can affect individuals and what steps can be taken to mitigate its impact.
## The Impact of Young Exposure to Pornography
1. **Psychological Effects**:
– A study published in the Journal of Adolescence found that adolescents who were exposed to pornography at a young age were more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors.
– Young people may develop unrealistic expectations about sex and relationships, which can affect their personal interactions and intimacy.
2. **Emotional Effects**:
– Research shows that viewing pornographic material can lead to feelings of guilt, shame, and confusion.
– Young individuals may struggle with body image issues and self-esteem concerns as a result of being exposed to unrealistic portrayals of sexuality.
3. **Social Effects**:
– Early exposure to pornography can alter one’s perception of sex and relationships, leading to challenges in forming healthy connections with others.
– Young people may struggle with social skills and developing meaningful relationships due to skewed views of intimacy.
## Coping Strategies for Young People Exposed to Pornography
1. **Open Communication**:
– Parents and guardians play a crucial role in addressing the issue of pornography with young individuals.
– Creating a safe space for open dialogue about sexuality, relationships, and the harms of pornography can help mitigate its negative effects.
2. **Education and Awareness**:
– Schools and community organizations can provide educational programs that address the impact of pornography on young minds.
– Teaching critical thinking skills and media literacy can empower young people to navigate digital content responsibly.
3. **Seeking Support**:
– Encouraging young individuals to seek support from trusted adults, counselors, or mental health professionals can help them process their feelings and experiences related to pornography.
## Conclusion
In conclusion, the effects of being exposed to pornography at a young age can have long-lasting consequences on an individual’s mental, emotional, and social well-being. It is essential for parents, educators, and society as a whole to take proactive measures in addressing this issue and supporting young people in navigating the complexities of the digital world. By fostering open communication, promoting education and awareness, and encouraging support-seeking behaviors, we can help young individuals build resilience and make informed choices when it comes to consuming explicit content online. Together, we can create a safer and healthier environment for the next generation.
It didn’t really
It didn’t effect me really. I didn’t even understand what it was until I learned about sex. I suppose it helped my 7th grade brain fill in the gaps.
My dad took me to see Barbarella when l was 8. Does that count?
guy here…
didn’t affect me!
Got addicted quickly. I was shown magazine by older kids when I was about 7. Found woods porn at 10. Kids would trade their dad’s tapes. Had to watch it quickly so it can be returned. If you were lucky enough to have two vcrs, you made your own copies. By the time I got the internet, I’d already seen it all.
it traumatized me, but not because it was porn.
when i was 11, i was held down at a sleepover by 2 older girls who forced me to watch lesbian porn and checked my pulse. because i was freaking out, they kept saying over and over that i liked it. i was sobbing. i never got to figure out my sexuality on my own, in a sexual way. i got bullied into figuring it out.
edit: poor word choice, it’s not that the incident made me realize i was gay, it was that i was bullied for it long before i knew it was true for myself, ruining my chances of discovering on my own terms.
I think I found my dad’s playboys at about 6 or 7 in the 80s. Saw Cinemax Friday nights as soon as I could have sleep overs and my parents let us stay up. Probably first real porn by 10. Not much effect.
“Tutching this iz fun!”
*30 years later*
“Shut up already, I’m not in the mood Willie. “
I’m a total sexual degenerate at this point.
I was around 13, I got addicted and didn’t sleep much from then on
Knowing nothing about porn I googled “eat my butt” because I was a stupid kid.
I wouldn’t call it traumatizing but the length of the man’s tongue was not human and I had absolutely no idea what I had just done
Stole my dad’s playboys at 8. I was excited but confused since the lower bits were covered with hair. Took a few years to get a clear picture.
12, I’ve been addicted since then. I hold myself from it a bit and boom I do it all over again much more than before then I hold myself for a while again and repeat
I was about 8, I was in a shared hotel/hostel room in Denmark, and I absolutely did not realise what I was looking at. The images made no sense to me whatsoever.
But I remember exactly what the actor looked like, and it was John Holmes.
ETA more context: It was a youth holiday to Legoland for disabled kids, of whom I was one, and in the shared room there were signs in Danish saying using the television cost a lot of money per minute, but the people I was sharing the room with – a mix of kids my age, older kids and one adult – put the telly on anyway. I wanted it turned off, not because I was squicked out by the porn, but because I had inferred from the Danish-language signs that our bill from keeping the telly on for even a few minutes would be enormous, and the trip leader would not be happy about having to pay it. I was, of course, absolutely right. But, because it was porn, and because the adult in charge of my room was a dolt and wholly unfit to be in charge of any children, he (and some of the older kids) insisted that it stayed on. So stay on it did.
Of course, when the bill came in, a group meeting was called, the leader yelled “WHO IS IN ROOM 267?!”, the truth emerged, and the guy was banned from ever coming on another trip with the organisation.
He was not a paedo; just incredibly irresponsible.
He also told me to “FUCK OFF!” on the ferry on the way over because I’d been spending too long parked behind him watching him play video poker.
Absolute fool.
I was probably 10-11 when I saw my first swimsuit mag. Looked at those for a while till we got internet when I was 13-14. Really didn’t affect me much. But I didn’t see anything really hardcore. Pretty much all soft core stuff.
I think I was around 9 years old and looking for “cool Pokemon sites” on the internet. Long story short, I found hentai and then actual porn.
Honestly, I don’t think the impact was that big. I remember being really “amazed” by this whole new world of “forbidden sites” for a while but I slowly lost interest after a few months. The interest never completely died, but I don’t remember it being a big part of my life back then.
A few years later, as a teenager with too much free time, I got addicted to porn though. I don’t think that porn addiction phase is related to that first time I saw porn, but it lasted for a few years, until I started college.
Im a girl, and I was 12 when I first looked at porn. I wasn’t like scared of it, I was just sorta in a daze like ohhh so this is what happens. And then I started looking at my parents, then my friends parents just like thinking so u had to do this act to make kids. I also didnt immediately want to have sex, like I wanted to still let myself absorb what I was watching but it just made me curious , especially why I was having that tingly feeling down there and why it felt good lol.
I was forced to watch porn at a young age by my father who was sexually abusing me.
I initially was turned off by it. It made sex look incredibly disgusting to me.
i think at 9? or younger? my cousin forced me to watch it. it didnt take a tool on me, i was an odd child from the beginning and i’m glad about that😂
Grade 7. Threw up
Around 6/7 I found my older brother’s stash (magazines/VHS) from the 80-90’s. All it did was give me a bush (pubic not president) fetish.
I was shown videos on a computer by a family member at 5, the curiosity led me to watching them on my own, then led to fascination, and eventually became an addiction
I had a kid at school show me…got hooked now I don’t think I’ve ever gone a day without masturbating 😵💫
I think I’m more sexual than the average person, and part of it is the early exposure to porn. I think my environment has more to do with it though. I went to school and lived in the neighborhood with kids who were already sexually active before middle school. I was already doing “everything but” penetration with girls in school, around my way around age 11. I think the porn helped me along and encouraged me to keep exploring and trying to have sex.
When I was about 9 years old, my parents bought an Apple II GS (used, with a bunch of software on separate floppy disks). One day when I was home alone, I discovered that there was a “Strip Poker” game. The only thing I remember is that one of the topless female characters said (in text, since this was a 1980s computer game) “You make my cunt juice drip.”
I honestly never felt like the exposure affected me at all.
watched Titanic at 8-10 years old. didn’t think much of it.
unfortunately. something else at 4-5 years old got me excited (nothing explicit), and that gave me the fetish I have today.
I was in grade 3, so I was about 8-9. I never really understood what the big deal was of 2 people having sex, i assumed all grown ups did it. At the time i had no idea why anyone would want to watch that, it was so boring
It destroyed my understanding of how relationships work, i was 10 and immediately got hooked.
I was 10 when I found an entire trunk of playboy magazines (and some more hardcore magazines) my cousins own (they were 20+ years older than me) and hid in our basement. Didn’t affect me that much, but my sister beat the hell out of me with it when she caught me looking at those magazines. 😂😂😂
I was like 6 or 7. Latchkey kids used to be a thing, and so was porn in the woods. I saw the images that day and realized I was gay.
At such a young age it messes up the way your brain works relating to sex, with regards to what’s right and what’s wrong, who to divert your affections towards and who not to.
Did some sketchy shit when i was about 7 ish, not gonna specify but it seemed to be influenced by no one nor the internet which we didnt had anyways.
That aside i probably saw it around 6-7th grade since we didnt had internet until then
Okay, let’s try to throw out an unpopular opinion here. Why would it affect children at all? If we go back to the days before we started agriculture and settled down, just after we left the trees, we had the same brain we do now, just without any wisdom behind it. Children were exposed to this on a daily basis without us calling attention to it, and somehow we managed to create an actual Somewhat functioning. society. I think we’ll be just fine. That being said, if you did something inappropriate to those early human children, it would probably be removed from the gene pool, thus keeping evolution going in the right direction.
I was 11-ish in 1999 when my friends and I started looking at it.
The only impact it’s had on me, I think, is my preference as an adult. The first pornstar I ever saw was Tiffany Towers, and to this day, I still have an affinity for larger than large breasts.