Pornographic content is increasingly creeping into your child’s life on the Internet, heavily affecting your child’s psychology and behavior. As a modern and wise parent, you need to constantly update news and information to prevent and protect your children from pornographic content on the Internet.
Below are 4 children and pornography statistics that parents need to know to quickly become aware of the situation, understand the risks and negative effects of pornography on their children and take the better initiative to protect their baby.
4 children and pornography statistics
More than 60% of 11 to 13-year-olds are accidentally exposed to pornography
And other “surprising” statistics about pornography for other ages:
- More than 53% of children aged 14 to 15 are accidentally exposed to pornography
- More than 46% of children between 16 and 17 years old are unintentionally exposed to pornography online
What does this mean?
Pornography is really rampant on the Internet, not only in the form of websites but also images/videos/advertisements appearing on online gaming websites, social networks, forums, group chats, etc.
Distributors of pornography are expanding and eager to reach a younger and potential audience – especially kids who have begun to use the Internet-connected devices for learning and playing.
7 or 8 years old – the age at which some children have started watching pornography
According to the survey, most of these kids just stumbled upon pornographic content at first, and these kids felt this was the type of content that most affected them negatively.
Children describe feelings as “awful” and “confused” when they first view pornography, especially children under 10 years old.
What does this mean?
The period under 10 years old is the period when children interact and explore with the outside world, so they are very easy to imitate and be influenced by negative factors. Inappropriate content such as accidental, bloody, animal abusing, violent, and especially pornographic content can make children uncomfortable, confused, and obsessive in the future.
An 18-year-old girl has watched extreme pornography and violence since the age of 7, claiming that it still haunts her, affects her sexual preferences and changes her feminist opinion.
Pornography has been shown to cause men to lose their sensitivity and empathy for the woman, and instead see women as sexual instruments engaged in a “one-way interactive transaction”. This is evident in porn films where the male actors show a lack of empathy towards women to the point where sexual abuse in these films is completely normal.
Many children feel uncomfortable or anxious after accidentally watching aggressive or violent pornography.
Usually, when children are accidentally exposed to pornography through videos that appear on the homepage of porn sites for the first time, they are easily “attacked” by a variety of real pornographic and graphic pornographic content.
The above contents are increasingly extreme, showing aggressive and violent sex. Some children suffer from a severe and long-term psychological impact after viewing such content.
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What does this mean?
By the age of 6-14, your child becomes sensitive and susceptible to external influences, so he may experience more intense fear when faced with stronger images such as aggressive and violent pornographic content. Your child is influenced and absorbed by emotions easily such as the impact of positive images from fairy tales.
After being exposed to these violent contents, your child is more likely to experience negative effects such as difficulty sleeping, having nightmares, anxiety, increased feelings of vulnerability to potential concerns.
Even for teenagers, horror content can have serious long-term effects. Besides, horror movies teenagers watch often contain disturbing images and sexual situations that can alter your child’s view of human sexuality.
Porn statistics: 41% of young people (between 11 and 17 years old) agree that watching porn makes them less respectful of the opposite sex.
Children believe pornography can influence sexual behavior and attitudes toward consent.
According to the survey, girls who view pornography report that these are ‘things to do’ during sex and to meet their boyfriend’s expectations. The girls also talked about their fears that sexual extremist images would be considered “normal” by the men and then applied in real life.
Some young people feel that porn has actually influenced their behavior during sex; especially after being exposed to “rough” or “forced” pornography. Some also feel that pornography has influenced their understanding of what consent is for both, which is not shown on pornography (mostly sexual assault and sexual assault. picture).
What does this mean?
Aggression and violence against women found in most popular pornography can teach your children (especially boys) that aggressive behavior towards women is socially acceptable. and accept is hostile towards women.
Additionally, rough and violent pornography leaves your child with unrealistic expectations about sex and a false perception of what is known as a healthy relationship.
What should parents do to protect children from exposure to pornography?
Use an online content filtering tool
As mentioned, porn is becoming more and more popular and develops at a very fast and widespread rate, putting your child at a higher risk of unintentionally exposed to this harmful content.
Due to the vulnerable and vulnerable nature of children’s brains, you need to proactively protect your child from pornography by using harmful content filtering tools that use cutting-edge technology to quickly and promptly hide and block pornographic content from reaching your child, thus better protect your child when using the Internet or social media.
Actively have a discussion and conversation about inappropriate content
To help protect your child better, you need to use with many different ways. And positive conversation is also a good choice.
Now is a good time to start talking about porn. Pornography is one of those sensitive issues that need to be addressed. Many parents think that this kind of conversation will rob their child of innocence, but in fact, talking is one of the best ways to protect your child from the impact of pornography on their development.
Listen and be open to what your child says. If your child has questions, it’s best to answer briefly and honestly and don’t make up the answers if you don’t know the answer.
In addition to explaining pornography and its harm to your child, you can also share content such as telling your child what is appropriate and inappropriate for your child to see, how pornography harms your child, and teach your child the negative effects of pornography as described below.
- How pornography makes them less smart
- How watching porn makes them become an advocate of showing violent attitudes and behaviors towards women
- How exposure to pornography makes them feel really bad about their body
Reference: Research on the Impact of Porn and Children (BBFC, 2019)
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