Category: Pornography

While strides have been made to protect kids online, pornography continues to be part of childhood. It creeps into bedrooms, phones, and social media feeds. A recent survey from the Children’s Commissioner for England reveals an alarming reality—children’s exposure to porn is rising, not falling. According to the report, 70% of young people aged 16–21 have seen pornography before the age of 18, up from 64% in 2023.

Social media is now one of the primary pipelines to porn addiction for both children and young adults. Global Witness, a campaign organization that investigates the impact of Big Tech on human rights, recently conducted a number of tests to determine how quickly children could access pornography on social media platforms.

From aggressive acts like choking, spanking, and hair-pulling to demeaning language and power play, porn often frames these behaviors as exciting, pleasurable, or even essential to “good sex.” When these scenarios are repeated over and over, they don’t stay confined to the screen—they seep into real-life sexual relationships. People start to believe that what they see in porn isn’t just fantasy; it’s a roadmap for intimacy.

We’ve somehow evolved to interpret the First Amendment to protect OnlyFans, Pornhub, and many other sources of explicit material. This is problematic on many levels. If we consider pornography to be speech, we have a tall hurdle to clear to regulate it in our speech-protecting country. But if we reframe pornography as a matter of privacy rights and public health, perhaps we can make more headway.

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According to the FBI, perpetrators have studied how to reach children and teens. In 2023, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a national public safety alert in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Included were some alarming facts: in 2022, law enforcement agencies received 7,000 reports related to the online sextortion of minors, resulting in at least 3,000 victims, primarily boys. More than a dozen sextortion victims were reported to have died by suicide.

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