Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. Information about pornography-viewing habits of urban, low income, youth of color in the U. This study was designed to answer the following using a sample of year old urban-residing, low income, Black or Hispanic youth: 1 What types of pornography do youth report watching, where, and for what purpose? The following themes emerged from interviews with 23 youth: a Youth primarily reported watching pornography that featured one-on-one sexual intercourse, but also reported having seen extreme pornography e. By the time U. A clear limitation of the existing body of knowledge related to youth pornography use is that the majority has been conducted using samples of college students Carroll et al. The results of these studies may not be generalizable to non-college-attending or U. Thus, there have been calls for additional information about U. Whether and how exposure to pornography could be a factor in these health disparities is unknown.
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However, no funding was received for the material featured in this article. For many young people, pornography has become the default sex educator. Research evidence from around the world shows porn has harmful impacts on young people and adults alike. Read more: How male 'porn superfans' really view women. But with sexually explicit material still so easy to access online, there are ways we can minimise its harms among young people, from providing better education at school to developing more ethical porn. Pornography can shift sexual interests, behaviours and relationships. Pornography teaches sexist and sexually objectifying understandings of gender and sexuality. For instance, in a randomised experimental study among young men in Denmark, exposure to nonviolent pornography led to less egalitarian attitudes and higher levels of hostile sexism. And in a longitudinal study among US adolescents, increased use of pornography predicted more sexist attitudes for girls two years later. Pornography also teaches violent attitudes and behaviours to both adolescents and adults.
Across the country, teens face serious charges for sending photos of themselves to other minors. The Des Moines Register reported late last month that a county prosecutor is threatening to charge a teenage girl with sexual exploitation of a minor for sending a sexually suggestive picture of herself to another student. The year-old girl, called Nancy Doe in a lawsuit aimed at heading off the charges , appears in underwear and a sports bra in one photo and, in the second, in underwear with her top off and her hair covering her breasts. If adjudicated delinquent — that is, found guilty in juvenile court — Nancy could have to register as a sex offender. The case stems from the March discovery that as many as 25 students at Knoxville High School in Marion County, Iowa, were found to be sharing pictures in which students were semi-nude, nude, or nude with emojis covering their private parts, which they hid in their phones on an app disguised as a calculator. This came to light after two geniuses were caught trying to print those photos in the school library. Police investigated and Marion County Attorney Ed Bull set up a diversion program in which the accused sexters could take a course on the dangers of sexting and admit what they did wrong, instead of facing juvenile charges.
