62.4 Impact of Pornography on Youth

With the World Wide Web, social media sites, and applications, children and adolescents have limitless access and exposure to pornography at an early age, with the average age of first internet porn exposure at age 11 years. More than half had seen it unwittingly, and 1 in 5 teenagers have received a sexual solicitation via the internet. Accessing pornography is easy, fast, and often anonymous. Pornography can be defined as “the depiction of erotic behavior (sexual display in pictures or writing) that is intended to cause sexual excitement” in the viewer (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pornography).

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Khadijah Booth Watkins Source Type: research