The left hail it as “equality” and “human rights”. Others may regard it as a great evil
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According to research by the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, one in ten children has watched pornography by the time they are nine years old. Half of children who had seen pornography had seen it by age 13.
Young people were frequently exposed to violent pornography depicting coercive, degrading or pain-inducing sex acts; 79 per cent had encountered violent pornography before the age of 18. Twitter was the platform where the highest percentage of children and young people, at 41 per cent, reported having seen sexual content, followed by dedicated sites at 37 per cent and Instagram at 33 per cent.
Young people expressed concern about the implications of violent pornography for their understanding of the difference between sexual pleasure and harm. Indeed, this report found that frequent users of pornography were more likely to engage in physically aggressive sex acts.
The spread of pornography also facilitates paedophilia. Susie Hargreaves, chief executive of the Internet Watch Foundation, said:
This report makes for disturbing reading. Anything which normalises sexualised behaviours in children can be exploited by online predators, who are only too ready to trick children into performing sexually on camera.
Pornography used to be confined to the top shelves of newsagents. Now it’s omnipresent, online and easily accessible to children. Horrifyingly, young boys are learning from it that sex is about treating girls and women as objects for the gratification of men, degrading them and committing acts of violence against them.
Who can be surprised at this appalling development? For the spread of pornography to the young has not happened in a vacuum. Society’s indifference to this is because —beyond religious and socially conservative circles — pornography is no longer a transgressive activity. It is being used to collapse the very idea of the transgressive, to sexualise children into a paedophile culture and to subvert traditional family life. And horrifyingly, this child sexualisation is becoming increasingly normalised into education..
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