Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ?
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not sure about gen z, but I worry about gen alpha. My wife works in a hospital for behavioral health and she sees an alarming number of kids (as young as 6 or 7) who are acting out sexually, and most of them consume a considerable amount of online porn. Many of them are there because they’ve sexually abused a sibling.
This is anecdotal, and of course in a behavioral health hospital my wife is going to see only the children who are acting out the most, and those children are by no means representative of the average child. It is also likely that some children have always acted out sexually, for various reasons, long before Internet porn. But the number of children they see for sexual predation is very concerning.
groet@feddit.org 1 day ago
Isn’t a child acting sexually often a sign they were sexually abused? Maybe the problem isn’t gen alpha watching porn, but either more sexual abuse by their parents, or simply more awareness. Sometimes a problem appears new/rising when it was always there, just invisible.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The two things are not mutually exclusive. One of the ways a parent can sexually abuse a child is showing them. Porn is often involved in child sexual abuse.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yes. A child acting sexually is a red flag, kind a weird that a health professional didn’t pick it up and just assumed a whole generation …
Wait, was the story fake? Kmao
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I never said that the health professionals didn’t consider the possibility that these children were themselves sexually abused. Of course they did. I never said that the health professionals asked only about porn consumption but not about past sexual abuse. They make both inquiries. I wasn’t even necessarily making a causal argument, only pointing out the strong correlation. I can’t tell you, because I don’t know, how many of the children who consume pornography have also been sexually abused. I don’t have access to that information, I don’t work there. All I do know is that significant porn consumption (including kids being caught watching porn in school) is very common among these kids.
It’s not fake, I’m telling you what I know, you can choose to believe it or not, I don’t give a shit.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
My son (12) had no idea about porn until a student snuck a phone into school last year and showed my son and some other boys the deal.
Since, I cannot leave the tv remote, or any device with Internet unlocked around him. He will immediately use it for this impulsively, without even thinking. He has impulse control issues, adhd and whatnot.
They find it everywhere, spotify, the Nintendo switch, even my fucking phone…
Children should not have the Internet in their pocket. Im really concerned it may distort his reality of sexual relationships, perhaps turn into addiction and it’s difficult to have discussions about because he shuts down even when I try my best to be delicate. Yet, I ask him, when will I be able to trust you with having the tv remote again? My son confidently tells me, not yet.
I cleaned his room one day not long ago, and found a crumpled up paper shoved behind his bed. I normally don’t, but I opened it before tossing it in the bin. It was a poorly drawn set of tits. This doesnt upset me, but him searching stuff online really does. There are so many extemes online, and Id never know what he’s seen, and he’s never going to ask for clarification.
I believe you. Many kids have unrestricted internet access, and many parents don’t pay attention. Just look a rolblox for fucks sake.