Why Banning Porn Won’t Protect Children
If you don't want kids to be learning about sex from porn, the solution isn't to ban porn. It’s to improve sex education in schools so they can distinguish entertainment from reality.
This really isn't hard to understand.
As a qualified sex educator, I was shocked when I found out that the average age a child is first exposed to online adult content is 13, and 15% of children first saw it at age 10. This isn't an issue you can just legislate or ban away - it simply is fact that we have very little control over what is shown to young people at an age-appropriate level, and that they are inherently curious people who probably know more than you think they do.
I believe sex education is necessary in the same way that legalising abortion and decriminalising sex work is necessary. The demand will always exist, so there's no point pretending it doesn't or trying to prevent it from happening, because all you're doing is putting people in incredibly dangerous situations.
We can't stop young people from watching this stuff, so the only thing we can do is teach them about the risks, clear up misconceptions around sex, and direct them towards age-appropriate resources that will be more readily applicable to their personal lives.
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