Pornography as a source of sex education of teenagers

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 When sex education isn't properly taught whether at school or at home, teenagers reach for knowledge in the internet. This leads to huge disinformation and distorts the image of sex.

80% of the worldwide population is online which makes adult content freely accessible. As we all know porn doesn't reflect how sex really looks like but it was made for mostly men pleasure. Emily Rothman, which is a Professor of Community Health Sciences, led a study of 72 teens in age 15-17. It turned out that pornography is their number one source of information about sex. This may lead to development of harmful attitudes towards sex or abusive behaviours towards woman.

The best way to defend young people against negative influence of pornography is to equip them with comprehensive, factual and sex-positive education. If they had enough knowledge about sex when they first come across any pornographic material, they would be resistant to its worst influences. 

At least 16 countries control online pornography although it is still possible to watch porn from abroad. But still those actions have been opposed by digital right groups which say that it would take away the privacy of internet users. Luckily, many internet platforms like Facebook, YouTube or Tumblr banned adult content which lead to controversy about LGBT members loosing their ,safe space' and having no alternative places to go.

Sex education is crucial in proper development of young people. In order to prevent them from learning about sex from the internet mostly by watching porn and developing harmful attitudes, we need to provide them with comprehensive and factual sex education.


https://internethealthreport.org/2019/sex-ed-in-the-digital-age/

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  1. englishdiary27 lutego 2022 10:42

    Do you believe pornography should be banned (at least on the internet) altogether because of its negative influence on children or violent content? Or should it be more tightly controlled?

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    1. Julia3 marca 2022 15:35

      I think it should be more strictly controlled.

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