http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135203/Jamie-13-kissed-girl-But-hes-Sex-Offender-Register-online-porn-warped-mind-.html
(sorry about the weird formatting from my pastes...try to read this all, even the small words...)
This whole article is absolutely disgusting and terrifying. But this is where we are headed with a public acceptance of porn.
So you say, "well, yes it is bad/unhealthy for a child to view it, but what's wrong with consenting adults?"
Well, as this article discusses, children who view it (and study after study has also shown- adults too,) will want harder and harder and more graphic material. How is that not going to lead to (at the very least,) the use of children in making porn, as well as more and more violent images being depicted, which leads to a higher rate of actual rape and other violence? (See
HERE for more horrific facts about that and many other porn-related issues.)
Some interesting quotes if you don't want to read the whole thing:
As a therapist, I am convinced that these images can be deeply traumatising to children — not least because a competitive market means that pornographers are trying to outdo each other to come up with the most extreme images.
This contest to push the boundaries means that straight intercourse is considered too boring. Images of brutal anal sex and women being humiliated and degraded by two or more men at any one time are the new norms.
For many young boys, this means their first sexual experience is not a nervously negotiated request for a dance from a girl at the end of the school disco. It is watching grotesquely degrading images of women, all too often mixed in with violent abuse.
Research by the Oxford University neuroscientist and former director of the Royal Institution, psychologist Susan Greenfield, has found that intense internet use alters brain chemistry, encouraging instant gratification and making young people more self-centred.
Evidence has found they become more prone to ‘real world’ violence, and less able to emphathise.
They bemoan the fact that they can’t go out with ‘real’ girls because they ‘want things’.
What’s more, it is also from porn that boys are forming their views of what women should look like, and how they should behave sexually. I hear young boys routinely refer to girls as ‘bitches’ who need to be dominated.
In other words, females who exist outside of cyberspace have needs of their own that boys resent having to consider.
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The author/therapist then goes on to mention how many parents don't monitor their children's computer activity because they think it could "never happen" to them, or they don't want to "invade their privacy." "Yet most remain in denial, despite the fact that the largest consumer group for internet pornography is children between 12 and 17."