The first item here is with the Children's Commissioner who has updated her report from two years ago concerning the exposure of pornography to children.
Key points:
- 50% of all children will have seen hardcore porn by the age of 13 or 14. This includes non consensual sex and strangulation.
- 25% will have seen this by the age of 11. Some have actually become addicted to watching pornography.
- The youngest age reported as seeing porn was aged just 6.
- This is normalising inappropriate behaviour themselves
- The site where the majority of porn is seen by underage people is X/Twitter by stumbling across it or it being shown to them by other children. The second worst is Snapchat.T
- Headteachers say that what children see on social media is second on the list of what they are most concerned about.
- This data was collected before the age verification requirement of the Online Safety Act came into force.
- Children (respondents were aged 16 to 24) say that one of the best things that parents can do is to talk to them about what they see online.
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