A Population-Based Epidemiological Study of Swedish Male Adolescents,” Journal of Adolescence 34, no. Carl Göran Svedin, Ingrid Âkerman, and Gisela Priebe, “Frequent Users of Pornography. A Swedish study of 18-year-old males found that frequent consumers of pornography were significantly more likely to have sold and bought sex than other boys of the same age. 'I wasn’t sure it was normal to watch it'. R., Davidson, J., Leyva, R., & Horvath, M. Despite the fact that porn can be wildly unrealistic and often glorifies violence, sexism, or racism, one recent survey found that over half of boys (53%) and over a third of girls (39%) reported believing that pornography was a realistic depiction of sex. According to research by the NSPCC, of the adolescents who had been exposed to porn, 28% were first exposed by accident, 19% were unexpectedl y shown pornography by someone else, and only 19% searched for it intentionally. Young people, pornography & age-verification. According to a recent report by the BBFC, 75% of parents believed their child had never encountered porn, but of those children, 53% reported that they had in fact seen porn. Related: How Porn Can Normalize Sexual Objectificationġ. So let’s shed some more light on this issue, shall we? Here are some quick stats and facts about porn’s presence and influence in our society. The science and research have been out for years now, and thousands of people, including porn performers themselves, have spoken out on how porn has negatively impacted their lives and relationships. The reality is that porn’s harmful effects are no longer a mystery, and new issues porn fuels or causes are regularly being discovered. We wonder what these people would think once they understood the facts behind the harmful effects of porn. doi:10.1080/10810730.2021.1887980 COPY That’s a lot of underage exposure to an industry that claims to be “adult” entertainment.īut not everyone is complaining about porn’s pervasiveness. probability sample on adolescents’ pornography exposure, media psychology, and sexual aggression. teens, 84.4% of 14 to 18-year-old males and 57% of 14 to 18-year-old females have viewed pornography. Related: How Porn Can Distort Consumers’ Understanding Of Healthy SexĪccording to a nationally representative survey of U.S. But just because there’s a ton of porn that’s accessible and available doesn’t guarantee that people, especially underage kids, are stumbling upon it, right? Not exactly. Porn is plastered all over social media sites like Instagram, and it’s too easy to see on Twitter. It’s no secret that porn has become mainstream entertainment in our society.įrom popular porn sites offering premium subscriptions to sites like BuzzFeed normalizing porn with viral videos, it feels like porn is taking over.