Nowadays parents often worry about that online pornography might affect their children in a negative way. Due to online pornography the way young people learn about sex has changed. Experts say parents should not worry about it, instead of trying to prevent porn consumption, parents should focus on teaching healthy sexual values.
These days, it’s almost impossible for parents to prevent their children from learning about sex long before they have their own sexual experiences. Ninety-eight percent of adolescents have Internet access. They have profiles on Facebook, they flirt in chat rooms, and they watch porn. Nearly half of all 13-year-olds have seen a pornographic video; for 14- to 17-year-olds, it’s almost 80 percent.
Therefore parents should not talk about the birds and the bees anymore but have a frank discussion of sex in general, including pornography. Hamburg-based sex researcher Gunter Schmidt says, for adolescents to be interested in everything related to sex, including porn is normal. What love is and how relationships work, on the other hand, are things they learn by example from their environment. The decisive factor, Schmidt asserts, is the parents’ example, how they treat themselves and their bodies and how they interact as a couple.For socially isolated men, pornography might serve as a trigger to violent behavior but it is never the cause.” says Rückert who holds a PhD in cultural studies.
Most sex researchers now agree that the structure of sexual desire develops earlier, during childhood and the prepubescent years. Experiences in nonsexual areas also have an effect — the development of early relationships, the way parents handle children’s needs, and the attitude children learn toward their own bodies. Even in childhood, individual “love maps” form, which inform what kind of people we later fall in love with and what sexual practices we prefer.
But due to porn the boys are under a lot of pressure to perform according to Ritter. They want to know how big their penises should be since the actors they see in porn movies are considerably more endowed than most 13-year-olds. Likewise, anal sex is almost always a topic for the boys ProFamilia (a nonprofit organization dealing with sexual issues in Germany) works with, since it’s part of the standard porn repertoire.
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