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Children grow up addicted to online porn sites: Third of 10-year-olds have seen explicit images

A 'guinea pig’ generation of children is growing up addicted to hardcore internet pornography, MPs were warned last night.

Four out of five 16-year-old boys and girls regularly access porn online while one in three ten-year-olds has seen explicit material, a disturbing cross-party report reveals.

It also cites figures showing that more than a quarter of young patients being treated at a leading private clinic are receiving help for addiction to online pornography.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131799/Children-grow-addicted-online-porn-sites-Third-10-year-olds-seen-explicit-images.html

It's the Daily Mail so take with a huge pinch of salt and a good dose of 'the sky is falling'. I suspect there is a kernel of truth to this however; we all know how easily accessible porn is on the internet and sad as it seems, some parents just do not take responsibility for their kids, whether it's their upbringing or their manners or their behaviour. It doesn't surprise me that some parents would allow their kids to surf the net either unsupervised or without effective parental controls.

The flipside to this is that the current generation of kids probably are much more tech-savvy than their parents and know how to circumvent web blockers and such too

'News' from the Daily Mail? Wait, I see your American flag so I will excuse you.

The daily mail is the UK's Fox news... Except slightly more based in reality because we have laws on just how much stuff can be made up in reporting

I also say that people are far too quick to call pretty much everything addiction. I like chocolate and probably eat more than I should, but I'm not addicted to it...

Also, my phone has decided to add a 'u' to the end of my post and I can't get rid of it

Anyway, I'm off to buy some chocolate and look at porn... u

I would need to know what the numbers where from 20, 30, or 40 years ago to get a sense of things really. I have no doubt that the internet has made it more common, but at the same time kids used to pass around dirty magazines and the like so I imagine numbers may not have gone up as radically as one might imagine as far as young people coming across sexual images. Now the volume of the images seen on the other hand I would think has gone up dramatically.

FYI

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/02/120402fa_fact_collins

Language warnings ahoy BTW.



The Liz Jones story on page 2 is jaw dropping enough really, then you get to the stuff on page 3 "the daily meetings are known as the Vagina Monologues."

It's worth remembering that we live in a time that people are obsessed with naming people as having addictions or illnesses.

One of my colleagues wives took their kid to a psychologist for misbehaviour the other day. Her husband said the kids fine, she just doesn't discipline him.

I don't think the media helps this mind set at all, people are just out to scare monger all the time; scare sells!

Yes the internet has made porn more readily available, though I don't think these kids are addicted - that's ridiculous - that sounds more to me like either the papers scare mongering again, or parents trying to put across how much of a hard job they have of managing their kids internet activities, and by that I mean that they're happy to make noise about it and complain to everyone in the hope that someone else 'fixes it' for them.

We're in a lazy ass world where the majority of people doing nothing for themselves.

My vision is skewed here a little, and I'm not saying this is true of everyone, but definitely of a good majority, and definitely in Britain.

"Addiction" shouldn't be used as a synonym for "really likes it a lot".

azazel the cat wrote:"Addiction" shouldn't be used as a synonym for "really likes it a lot".

This.

Although it's probably just because it's the Daily Mail....

As filbert says, a rather large pinch of salt should be taken before believing anything from that pile of

There are two questions here.

Is porn actually harmful to 'children'? I doesn't seem likely to me (depending on the type of porn obviously).

Have 'children' been able to access porn before the internet? Definitely, I found my dads stash just before the onset of puberty and my school was awash with cheap 70's 'tache porn anyway. It is much more accessible now of course but it has been freely accessible for decades.

The Daily Mail loves to print sensationalist and poorly researched/understood stories. In fairness at least this one isn't about immigrants or yet another cancer scare/cure.

Haven't you heard? They're watching illegal immigrant porn, the theme is that they've come over for free cancer treatment on the NHS.

kitch102 wrote:Haven't you heard? They're watching illegal immigrant porn, the theme is that they've come over for free cancer treatment on the NHS. They're dressed in hoodies and worship Islam and do it in taxpayer funded council houses...

Finished that off for you.

LOL this is hilarious. i first saw porn at school were we would access it via Yahoo! Search - Web Searchwww.alltheweb.com/ in one of the classrooms during break. we sealed off the windows of course. th en there was the stuff on peoples phones. personaly i would watch porn but i dont have a computer at home but soon i will be getting one hopefuly.

Since there are peados on every corner, childern don't bother going to school and parents are out binge drinking themselves to death, what else do kids have to do all day but look at porn anyway?

Alright, this is whole topic is crap, why? Because porn is a normal thing of life, every guy (and possibly chick) has watched porn, its normal. Who cares? Hell I've watched enough porn to last a life time. Is that weird? Hell no, and if people do consider it weird... get a life, because it aint. I mean once you have a girlfriend, most people stop watching it...most.

Is this thread just another "Rick Sandpornum, isn't so bad"?

The Daily Mail have probably asked two ten year old's who've been caught looking at porn and it's a national problem. Sounds about right.

What grates at me about this 'possible' story is that parents are allowing ten year old's to use a computer with un-censored settings in private to watch such material. WHY? Common sense says have the family computer in a open place so internet usage by children of such an ages can be monitored. Not just to prevent them having access to such material, but to prevent social network bullying and paedophilia grooming.

This is the responsibility of the parents, but as was said before half of the UK are too lazy to help themselves and need to make a news story out of such things in the hope someone else will fix the problem for them.

I like porn, and I think everyone should, in moderation. I mean, the wife doesnt want sex as often as I do, so what am I to do? Paint miniatures? Sorry, that just doesnt.....do it, for me

KingCracker wrote:I like porn, and I think everyone should, in moderation. I mean, the wife doesnt want sex as often as I do, so what am I to do? Paint miniatures? Sorry, that just doesnt.....do it, for me

Well there is a strong argument t be made about desentization aspects of it. I'd go into more detail but I have to review all the relevant items in detail.

Frazzled wrote:Well there is a strong argument t be made about desentization aspects of it. I'd go into more detail but I have to review all the relevant items in detail.

That's true. Once you've painted a unit of 60 goblin spearmen, you need something to take your mind off of things.

Porn is a good, although not the only, distraction.

KingCracker wrote:I like porn, and I think everyone should, in moderation. I mean, the wife doesnt want sex as often as I do, so what am I to do? Paint miniatures? Sorry, that just doesnt.....do it, for me

Oh how I love dry puns, thanks for making my night KC

For the record, one cannot become addicted to pornography itself as it is merely sexually explicit media, however it can lead to the release of natural endorphines which themselves can, after a while, become addictive.
Mind you these same endorphines are released when you cut yourself or graze your knee so, take it fwiw.

Frazzled wrote:
Well there is a strong argument t be made about desentization aspects of it.

I believe the trick here is to not sit/lay on your arm for quite so long first.

reds8n wrote:

Frazzled wrote:
Well there is a strong argument t be made about desentization aspects of it.

I believe the trick here is to not sit/lay on your arm for quite so long first.

S8n, enough talk about strangering!

You'll resensitize my arm and desensitize the kids!

reds8n wrote:

Frazzled wrote:
Well there is a strong argument t be made about desentization aspects of it.

I believe the trick here is to not sit/lay on your arm for quite so long first.

Boom tish, he's here all week ladies and gentlemen.

This is like the whole video games argument. Your kids play Grand theft auto and they learn that killing gangsters and hookers is a good thing. Your kids watch porn they will become sex crazed perverts. No.

Kids aren't stupid, they know the difference between right and wrong. If they don't then look at other things to blame such as your addiction problems, lack of attention to them or your own poor attitudes and behaviour. Lousy parents lead to lousy kids, not porn.

I know kids under 18 should definately not be accessing porn but is it realistic? How else are they going to release sexual tension, having sex with another minor, possibly getting them pregnant? Resorting to rape to get what they want?

So how do we counter the problem? Don't give your ten year old a laptop or a phone so he can freely access sites without being monitored. No matter what you do they are going to witness some sexual act, what you can control is the volume of it.

Its just nudity, people need to get over their sex phobias.

You can watch people dying all sorts of horrid ways every night in any of the various cop shows. You can even see 1000 ways to die where they show all sorts of different ways people have died. no one cares about desensitizing violence.

OMG A NIPPLE!!!!!! a nipple flashed on the screen for a second, think of the children, AAAAAAAAAAAAa.

If you have kids, and a computer, you'll want some sort of net nanny. It won't stop them, just slow them down a bit. I thought you brits just passed some sort of law recently so thegovernment would do that for you.

For fun though, google "NUNS" without the safe filter on

sirlynchmob wrote:If you have kids, and a computer, you'll want some sort of net nanny. It won't stop them, just slow them down a bit. I thought you brits just passed some sort of law recently so thegovernment would do that for you.

Who needs a net nanny? I have a cache on my router that tracks what websites are accessed and gives me a timestamp.

Kids can get around a net nanny program. But try having a conversation with your dad when he has a printout of all the porn sites you've visited.

Private_Joker wrote:Kids aren't stupid, they know the difference between right and wrong. If they don't then look at other things to blame such as your addiction problems, lack of attention to them or your own poor attitudes and behaviour. Lousy parents lead to lousy kids, not porn.

Kids know the difference between right and wrong? Is this something they're born with, passed down from the parents? Or is it an inherent human trait?

reds8n wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Well there is a strong argument t be made about desentization aspects of it.

I believe the trick here is to not sit/lay on your arm for quite so long first.

Isn't that what they call "the Stranger"?

azazel the cat wrote:"Addiction" shouldn't be used as a synonym for "really likes it a lot".

True, feth me.. 99% of gak they say people are addicted to these days is nonsense!

How the hell can you be addicted to sex?! Your just a fanny rat with no sense of self control because your a douchebag. Just take it like a man and stop giving gak excuses.

Case in point, Matty is not addicted to booze.

biccat wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:If you have kids, and a computer, you'll want some sort of net nanny. It won't stop them, just slow them down a bit. I thought you brits just passed some sort of law recently so thegovernment would do that for you.

Who needs a net nanny? I have a cache on my router that tracks what websites are accessed and gives me a timestamp.

Kids can get around a net nanny program. But try having a conversation with your dad when he has a printout of all the porn sites you've visited.

Private_Joker wrote:Kids aren't stupid, they know the difference between right and wrong. If they don't then look at other things to blame such as your addiction problems, lack of attention to them or your own poor attitudes and behaviour. Lousy parents lead to lousy kids, not porn.

Kids know the difference between right and wrong? Is this something they're born with, passed down from the parents? Or is it an inherent human trait?

Its a learned trait. All kids hit that "nudist" phase around the time they start potty training. Its how the parents handle that phase that influences the kids attitude towards nudity.

My 2 cents, Its to early to look for research on it.

sirlynchmob wrote:

If you have kids, and a computer, you'll want some sort of net nanny

I'm not going to bother with anything so crude. My son can look at what he likes on the internet.

Kids aren't stupid, they know the difference between right and wrong. If they don't then look at other things to blame such as your addiction problems, lack of attention to them or your own poor attitudes and behaviour. Lousy parents lead to lousy kids, not porn.

Kids only know "right and wrong" if you teach them.

EDIT: see the above post. this is an example of not teaching them.