Sweden: More effective and better protection is needed for children online
“A national Swedish evaluation study has highlighted the need for a chain of interventions to offer children who have experienced violence against their mother the right level of support to work through their experiences. There is also frequently a lack of structured risk assessments for identifying children who are at continued risk of exposure to violence, reveal researchers from the universities of Gothenburg, Karlstad, Uppsala and Örebro.”
Children first experience online porn at age 11, study finds
“On average, a child will have their first experience with online porn at age 11. That’s just one of the statistics on Internet porn compiled this week by the business blog Online MBA.”
Social Costs of Pornography: Statement of Principles, DVD available from Witherspoon Institute Consultation
The Witherspoon Institute’s 2008 Consultation on the Social Costs of Pornography “assembled leading experts in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neurophysiology, philosophy, sociology, law, and political theory to present a rigorously argued overview of the problem of pornography in our society and to make recommendations. The primary purpose of the meeting was to examine the real nature of pornography in its moral and social consequences.”
Teenage boys watching hours of internet pornography every week are treating their girlfriends like sex objects
Daily Mail: “‘Boys just want us to do all the stuff they see the porn stars do,’ one 16-year-old girl told me. ‘It’s as if we have to pretend we are in a movie’ . . . Latest figures suggest that boys spend as much as three hours a week gazing at porn; absorbing unrealistic images of aesthetically enhanced people, many of whom are engaged in multi-partner, violent and perverted sex acts.”
UK Home Office report: Sexualisation of Young People Review
Sexualisation of Young People Review: “This review looks at how sexualised images and messages may be affecting the development of children and young people and influencing cultural norms, and examines the evidence for a link between sexualisation and violence.”
Processes Underlying the Effects of Adolescents’ Use of Sexually Explicit Internet Material: The Role of Perceived Realism
CCaM: “Although research has repeatedly demonstrated a link between adolescents’ exposure to sexually explicit internet material (SEIM) and sexual attitudes, the processes underlying this association are not well understood. More specifically, studies have pointed to a mediating role of perceived realism, but internally valid evidence is missing.”
Assessing Causality in the Relationship between Adolescents’ Risky Sexual Online Behavior and their Perceptions of this Behavior
Journal of Youth and Adolescence: “The main aim of this study was to investigate the causal nature of the relationship between adolescents’ risky sexual behavior on the internet and their perceptions of this behavior.”
Adolescents’ exposure to sexually explicit internet material and notions of women as sex objects: Assessing causality and underlying processes
Journal of Communication: “The aim of this study was to clarify causality in the previously established link between adolescents’ exposure to sexually explicit internet material (SEIM) and notions of women as sex objects. Further, the study investigated which psychological processes underlie this link and whether the various influences varied by gender . . . “
Adolescents’ exposure to sexually explicit internet material and sexual satisfaction
Human Communication Research: “The aim of this study was to investigate, within a social comparison framework, the causal relationship between adolescents’ use of sexually explicit internet material (SEIM) and their sexual satisfaction. In addition, we tested which adolescents were most susceptible to a potential influence of SEIM on sexual satisfaction.”
The Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family and Community
Marriage and Religion Research Institute: Pornography generates numerous negative outcomes for individuals and families, according to a comprehensive overview of pornography research by Dr. Patrick Fagan of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council.
