Porn: What's the Harm? Page #4

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just in senior schools... Yeah.

..in year nines and year tens,

which is 14 and 15-year-olds,

and up until that, in a class of 30,

we would maybe have

three lads out of the 15 in the

class that had accessed pornography,

and that would have been

through Fiesta magazines,

that type of... Yeah, yeah,

top shelf. Yeah, that's the thing.

And then, after that summer,

when everybody seemed to get

the internet piped into their homes,

in the September, the October,

we found that it was only

three lads out of 15 that HADN' actually accessed pornography.

SHE CLICKS HER FINGERS

It was literally that quick.

And now, one in three

9-16 year olds in the UK

has access to the internet

via their mobile phone. So the days

when porn had an age limit that

could be enforced are long gone.

The Government says it's clamping

down on easy access to porn,

encouraging internet providers

to introduce new filters

only adults can lift.

But some say it's too late

and that countless children

have already been exposed

to shocking images

at an age when I was

still playing with dolls.

So how do we know for sure

just how much online porn

teenagers are seeing?

And what effect

does that have on them?

To find out, we've carried out

the biggest survey of its kind

ever done in the UK.

Over 1,000 people aged

between 16 and 21 took part,

answering questions on

everything to do with porn.

How old they were

when they first saw it.

How often they watch it now.

And how they think it affects

what men and women expect from sex.

Their answers were sent anonymously

to a market research company.

And then, we got two of

the country's leading experts

on pornography and sexualisation

to help us analyse the results.

What was so exciting about this was

it was an opportunity to really go

to a large number of young people

in the UK, which is

where there hasn't been

a lot of research in the past

and really get them to tell us

what they thought, what they felt.

The answers that young people

gave us in the survey were

so interesting,

so inspiring, so thoughtful.

This is the biggest survey

in the UK that has been done

of young people's experiences

and really gives them a chance

to talk about what they think

about pornography and they did.

They had really interesting,

thoughtful things to say.

At the same time, I also talked to

dozens of teenagers aged 14 and up

from all over the UK, so we could

get the most accurate picture yet

of the truth about

young people and porn.

It boosts confidence of men a lot

more, and it makes them think,

"Well," you know, "it looks quite

easy, you know, I could do that."

My brother, he's 13 and I wouldn't

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