Posted on 10/01/2013 11:22:25 AM PDT by Morgana
LONDON, October 1, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As pornography pervades the culture, porn addicts are getting younger and younger. According to a new survey in the UK, 20 percent of boys in their late teens say they are “dependent on porn.”
According to the University of East London, one-fifth of boys said they could not become sexually stimulated without watching pornography.
In all, 97 percent of boys and 80 percent of girls who responded to the survey said they had viewed porn. Nearly a quarter of boys and eight percent of girls said they have tried to stop watching pornography but could not kick the habit.
The study involved a survey of 177 young people between the ages of 16 and 20.
Psychologists have known for years that repeated viewing of hardcore porn floods the brain's ventral striatum with dopamine, producing a euphoric effect similar to drug addiction.
As with drug addicts, in time the viewer requires harder and harder material to get the same “high.” Of those surveyed, 13 percent of boys and 10 percent of girls said their online habits became "more and more extreme."
In another recent study, Cambridge University researcher Dr. Valerie Voon conducted brain scans of men aged 19 to 34 who had tried unsuccessfully to give up porn, and found that their neuroscans resemble those of alcohol or heroin addicts.
“Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to developing addictions and that’s because of how their brains are developing,” professor Matt Field, an adolescent addiction psychologist at University of Liverpool, told the Telegraph.
The effects of ubiquitous smut have convinced even supporters of the sexual revolution that the open licentiousness has gone too far.
Martin Daubney, who used to edit Loaded, which he described as a "lad's magazine" that featured copious helpings of softcore nudity, recently conducted a series of interviews with youth about porn. He says he was shocked by what he learned.
A group of 13- to 14-year-olds told him they had all seen anal porn – and virtually all had witnessed beastiality.
"Letting our children consume [porn] freely via the internet is like leaving heroin lying around the house," Daubney told the Daily Mail.
Daubney recoiled when a 19-year-old told him, "I can't hold down a relationship for longer than three weeks. I want porn sex with real girls, but sex with them just isn't as good as the porn."
The young man's comments point out another victim of pornography: The girlfriends and wives of porn addicts.
“When you interview young women about their experiences of sex, you see an increased level of violence: rough, violent sex,” Professor Gail Dines told the Mail. “That is directly because of porn, as young boys are getting their sexual cues from men in porn who are acting as if they're sexual psychopaths. Pornography is sexually traumatizing an entire generation of boys."
Sexual abuse statistics bear out her contention. According to UK statistics released earlier this year, pornography and depictions of sexuality turned more than 4,500 British children – some of them as young as five – into sexual offenders between 2009 and 2012.
“Child-on-child sex abuse and rape is a growing problem in every culture where pornography flourishes,” Patrick Trueman, a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan administration and president of Morality In Media, told LifeSiteNews.com at the time.
A wanker satisfied with his lot.
40 years ago most 14 year old’s had access to Playboy, etc.
Most boys will find porn on the internet - hard to imagine otherwise.
"Hey, mates, you should have seen it! This stupid old fart was asking me a bunch of questions about porn, so I made up all kinds of crazy stuff until I thought he was going to pass out stone cold on the floor! It was the most hilarious thing ever!"
Radical Feminists are pleased. That means those boys aren’t out trying to court a girl. Get married and start having those filthy children!
40 years ago boys had to seek out porn, now porn seeks out boys on the internet. Think about it. 40 years ago one had to leave the house and go buy a playboy, now with a few keystrokes some times by accident one can find porn with ease.
So you think porn isn’t as widely spread as this article indicates?
The welfare state gives a huge swath of young men a life of dependency in which the idea of having a decent job, getting married, having a home, and raising a family is reduced to a fantasy. Hence porn becomes their reality.
The immaturity of so many supposed adults who post to these threads is depressing.
“Radical Feminists are pleased”
So are the makers of Viagra. This means their sales will triple among 20 something year old’s.
“The immaturity of so many supposed adults who post to these threads is depressing.”
Immaturity or closet porn lovers?
Most of the time, if memory serves, one might have had a friend with a dad or older brother who procured the materials. Just like sneaking into a parent’s liquor cabinet.
But I agree - its much easier on the internet.
And Playboy was pretty mild compared to the stuff these kids are talking about.
(But at least NOW you know who thinks up fake p****’s)!
However, this ONOZ OMG hair-on-fire stuff is nonsense, fed by teenage boys who, handed a golden opportunity to amuse themselves at some old fogey's expense, take full advantage.
Ahh so 97% of teenage boys haven’t viewed porn?
Porn doesn’t damage peoples real relationships?
ahhh ok, perhaps you have some proof???
The queers are happy about it, too, because they can recruit from those disaffected teen boys for their next generation of perverts.
“And Playboy was pretty mild compared to the stuff these kids are talking about.”
Mild? Listen so some of Dr. Judith Reisman’s lectures on Playboy. You have no idea how dangerous Playboy has been all these years. Dr. Reisman has videos all over youtube or you may go here:
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/
Proof of what? You haven’t made any positive assertions.
Has the good doctor won any judgments in her lawsuits against imams using the exact same rhetoric to denounce trollops who show their faces in public?
(I'm assuming that the imams copied the rhetoric from her, rather than vice versa.)
“Has the good doctor won any judgments in her lawsuits “
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/reisman_won_playboy_libel_suit.html
Playboy Lost to Reisman!
Reisman Child Porn Study Defeats Playboy’s Dutch Libel Suit
In 1994, Playboy sued Dutch tv broadcaster EO to demand the retraction of statements by Dr. Reisman in one of their broadcasts. On air, Reisman essentially accused Playboy of producing child pornography, based on the study of three decades of its publications. Playboy ultimately lost the lawsuit.
First time I accidentally found porn was when hubby told me to pull up Pep Boys auto parts site. I’d never heard of the company and couldn’t understand what “pet” boys had to do with tires. He hasn’t let me live that down.
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