For those of us who are part of the growing anti-porn movement, it’s often easy to slam down our fists and demand the complete elimination of such vulgar regions of the internet.
Unfortunately, pornography has been around for all of modern time and our attempts to eliminate it will remain futile if we continue to be reactionary rather than logical. Porn won’t be disappearing anytime soon; sex is simply everywhere. Instead, we must be proactive and preemptive by ensuring the next generation is fully educated on its dangers and destructive abilities.
Again, sex is simply everywhere. We live in a hyper-sexualized society, one where even the bodies of women are used in advertising to sell more. This era celebrates hypersexuality, to the point where even perversion has become tolerated, and in some cases, celebrated. Sex has been tarnished over the years; it’s a commodity – accessed and viewed by the simple click of a button…
The internet is also drowned in sexual content, a place everyone now has access to from a young age. Children come across pornographic content every day, so it’s imperative we protect them however we can from such spaces. One study showed that the average age of exposure to porn for both boys and girls was between 9 and 10 years old, and that less than 10% of them had intentionally sought it out, meaning they saw it accidentally or someone else showed it to them. Sadly, porn has been allowed to descend into the brains of the young, shaping their ideas of sex into simply cheap imitations of sexual intimacy. Read more…