Teens addicted to porn?
Once out of range of the hands of younger porn is now widely available via cable channels, DVD or the internet … What is the magnitude of the trivialization of X? How do they react teens these images? Update with the latest studies on the subject.
Teens are more likely to watch movies X. A third of boys would look even regularly!
Trivializing or even regular consumption of porn
Addicted teen porn With the emergence of cable channels and the democratization of the Internet, access to pornographic content has largely commoditized. Result: teens there are more and more confronted and this growing youth. Certain figures puzzling. In the Canal + subscriber households, 11% of children aged 4 to 11 years watched at least one minute of film X 1. On the sixth class (children 11 years of age), 60% of boys and 30% of girls said they had watched a porn movie 2 .. If the representativeness of these figures leave you skeptical, the European study ESPAD (European School Survey on Alcohol and Other Drugs) 3 conducted over 16,000 students from 12 to 18 should you convince 71% of boys aged 14 to 19 years have seen a pornographic film in the previous year, as 40% of girls.
Teens are not only more likely to be exposed to X images, but they would have also changed their consumption patterns. According to the same study, a third of boys aged 14 to 18 years watching pornographic films as usual; in girls, the proportion is one in fifty.
Between seduction and disgust …
According to the same survey, the responses of boys and girls to these images are quite different. The opinion of the boys is rather positive (54% say it entertains and distracts, 34% that they like and 16% that it is useful), while the girls express their dislike (56% say it’s disgusts, 28% that it makes them feel at ease, 26% that it shocks
After conducting a survey of over 300 company adolescent Doctors believes that teens are very ambivalent view of these pornographic images. “Thankful a certain attraction, boys, however, admit that most of the actions and attitudes described are not respectful vis-à-vis women. But they also believe that these acts can be made with” easy girls “that cause and waiting to be treated that way. “This amazing distinction between sexual and emotional (side, easy girls and another idealized female) takes a new form in girls. “Disgusted by the representation of the actresses treated as mere sex objects, they also believe that pornography idealizes sexuality by the staging of sexual acts always beautiful and satisfactory. They do not come and position itself between domination and sexual fulfillment “… In addition to the pollution of the adolescent sexual I believe that X pictures impose a normative vision, a sort of manual of sexuality teens away from reality, a sexuality complex but rich in endless
Violent porn and behavior
Can it mean that these images transform innocent teenagers lustful beasts? Is there a link between this trivialization of pornography and the growing media coverage of sex crimes? … This thesis appears for a little less like a quick shortcut. Nevertheless, the results of the European ESPAD survey could bring water to the mill of more pessimistic.
Indeed, this study highlights an amazing link. The viewing of pornographic films is closely related to risk behaviors: violence, runaways, drug use, alcohol and tobacco consumption, but also more frequent suicide attempts among girls and boys. But these data are limited to the simple observation of a statistical correlation and not to judge a possible relation of cause and effect.
In other words, the eternal debate between one side moralists followers of censorship and other libertarians who see pornography as a new conquest of freedom is not nearly over. But what is your opinion on the matter? Come express yourself in our forums.
Eve Maitresse 