Why porn is harmful, and dangerous. How it sexualizes young people(Teens) and have ties to trafficking of women and children - A thread

HEAVY TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of rape, violence, abuse, sadism, masochism, torture and more. Reader discretion is advised.

Porn Culture and The Industry
•There are over 68 million daily searches for pornography in the United States. Thats 25% of all daily searches (IFR, 2006).
The sex industry is largest and most profitable industry in the world.

“It includes street prostitution, brothels, ‘massage parlors’, strip clubs, human trafficking for sexual purposes, phone sex, child and adult pornography, mail order brides and sex tourism – just to mention a few of the most common examples.” (Andersson et al, 2013)

Pornhub receives over 1.68 million visits per hour. (Pornhub, 2013) porn is also known for sex trafficking, r*pe, Abuse etc of young women and girls also of small children young as being babies and toddlers. https://twitter.com/avrisapir/status/1244379836925333505

Globally, teen is the most searched term. Trends analysis indicates that searches for “Teen Porn” have more than tripled between 2005-2013, and teen porn was the fastest-growing genre over this period. - Total searches for teen-related porn reached-

an estimated 500,000 daily in March 2013, far larger than other genres, representing approximately one-third of total daily searches for pornographic web sites. (Dines, 2013)...Across the board it has been found women watch less porn than men.

•17% of women admit to struggling with pornography addiction (Internet Filter Review, 2006)•
•Condoms are only utilized in 10.9% of top rated scenes (Bridges and Wosnitzer, 2007) porn industry isn’t safe at all.

Every 39 minutes a new porn film is created in the United States.
•20% of American men admit they access pornography at work.
•13% of women admit to accessing pornography at work (Internet Filter Review, 2006)
70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs during workdays (9am – 5pm)

The porn industry makes more money than Hollywood. (US Statistics) but annual revenue estimates range from under $6 billion to $15 billion, and as high as $97 billion.

The porn industry makes more money than The National Football League, The National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball combined and more than NBC, CBS, and ABC combined. (IFR, 2006).

“Porn, Youth and Child Abuse”
Children as young as 11 years old are regularly accessing hardcore gonzo pornography (IFR, 2006). Following first exposure, the largest consumer group of internet pornography is boys between the ages of 12-20.

Approximately 20% of all internet pornography is child sexual abuse. (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2013)
• A recent study found that seven out of ten youth have been unwillingly exposed to pornography in the United States (Carroll et al, 2008).

The fastest growing demand in commercial websites for child abuse is for images depicting the worst type of abuse, including penetrative sexual activity involving children and adults and sadism or penetration by an animal (Internet Watch Foundation. Annual Report, 2008).

Child pornography has become a $3 billion annual industry (Top Ten Reviews, 2005). Since it’s 2020 it’s probably even worth more and higher than ever due to pornography consumption and teenagers between ages of 16-19 in sexual work/trafficking

69% of all victims in child abuse images are between the ages of 0 and 10 years old. (IWF, 2008)probably even at Lear higher percentage due to trafficking and abuse nowadays.

Child trafficking victims serve between two and thirty clients per week, leading to a shocking estimated base of anywhere between 100 to 1500 clients per year, per child. Younger children, many below the age of 10, have been increasingly drawn into serving tourists-

(Department of Justice, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. Accessed October 31, 2007). Youth who look at violent x-rated material are six times more likely to report forcing someone to do something sexual online or in-person versus youth not exposed to x-rated material.

Internet pornography was blamed for a 20 percent increase in sexual attacks by children over three years.

Nearly 80 percent of unwanted exposure to pornography is taking place in the home (79 percent occurs in the home; 9 percent occurs at school; 7 percent other/unknown; 5 percent at a friend’s home).

Kids experience unwanted exposure to sexual material:
- A link came up as a result of an innocent word search (40 %)
- Clicking on a link in another site (17 %)
- A pop-up (14 %)
- Other (13 %)
- Misspelled web address (12 %)
- Don’t know (4 %)
- Pictures involving animals 10%

American and British children begin consuming hardcore pronography at an average age of 11. Four out of five 16 year-olds regularly access pornography online. In 2008, more than 560 college student responded to an online survey:

- 93% of boys and 62% of girls were exposed to pornography before 17 and 18

- 14% of boys and 9% of girls were exposed to pornography before 13

- 69% of boys and 23% of girls have spent at least 30 consecutive minutes viewing Internet pornography on at least one occasion

- 63% of boys have done so more than once, and 35% of boys have done so on more than 10 occasions

- 83% of boys and 57% of girls have seen group sex online

- 69% of boys and 55% of girls have seen same-sex intercourse online

- 39% of boys and 23% of girls have seen sexual bondage online

- 32% of boys and 18% of girls have seen bestiality online

- 18% of boys and 10% of girls have seen r*pe or sexual violence online

- 15% of boys and 9% of girls have seen CSEM/Child Abuse images.

When a child or adolescent is directly exposed to pornography the following effects have been documented:
- Lasting negative or traumatic emotional responses.
- The belief that superior sexual satisfaction is attainable without having affection for one’s partner, thereby-

reinforcing the commoditization of sex and the objectification of humans.
- The belief that being married or having a family are unattractive prospects.

- Increased risk for developing sexual compulsions and addictive behavior.

Increased risk of exposure to incorrect information about human sexuality long before a minor is able to contextualize this information in ways an adult brain could.
- Overestimating the prevalence of less common practices (e.g., group sex, bestiality, or sadomasochistic activity

“Prolonged exposure to pornography, it must be remembered, results in both a loss of respect for female sexual autonomy and the disinhibition of men in the expression of aggression against women.” - Dr. James B. Weaver.