Multiple countries are trying to force porn sites to have an efficient age verification. With frightening numbers like half of 12 year old boys go monthly to porn sites.
Sure for an adult who remember the time where at best one kid would have brought a magazine to school, it feels concerning. However, it’s been easily 20 years that every household has high speed internet which is full of porn. So the kids under 30 (let’s call them Gen-Z) had a massive access to porn while growing up.
Is there any “sociologicial” studies about how it impacted these young adults ? Are they sexually more fucked-up than the millennials ?
Access to porn when a person is at a stage of development where they’re exploring sexuality on their own anyway is not a problem. That age varies for each person because puberty varies for each person. And because some people are more or less interested in sex than others naturally.
Making adolescents fend for themselves with no education or support and shaming them for the physical changes and impulses that all humans go through and have always gone through forever when they reach puberty is a problem.
Porn has always existed and will always exist. Adolescents masturbate themselves and fuck each other, always have, and always will. The only choice we have in the matter is whether we choose teach them to be safe, responsible, and respectful with their and others’ sexuality or we choose to abuse them by instilling fear, guilt, and aggression into them about sex.
Your post is an example of the latter. Change your fucking perspective.
Your comment gave me an idea:
Can you imagine if a government, instead of mandating the stupid age verification system, would not bar “minors” from accessing the sites. But rather they would force the sites to implement a “tutorial on sex, sexuality and consent”, similar to the shitty corpo-mandated tutorials on topics like harassment, racism, security and GDPR. Heck, doesn’t even have to be as lengthy every time. Just simply play back a 30 second segment when opening the website and then have the individual answer a set of multiple choice questions to verify they have paid attention.
The government could sell it as “Teach the Children!” instead of “Protect the Children”. But here’s the biggest benefit of the former compared to the latter: