Educators have finally begun to discuss the damaging effect
of pornography on young people.
In their interviews with 140 young people, Dr David Corlett
and Maree Crabbe found that violent, graphic and sexist pornography is being
widely accessed by teenagers. Accessibility to pornography has been exacerbated
by high internet usage, social media addiction and imported video games.
Corlett and Crabbe developed a documentary out of the
interviews and hope to use it as proof that pornography provides “negative sex
education”.
And with 92 per cent of boys and 61 per cent of
girls between the age of 13 and 16 having viewed pornography online, it is
Australia’s most dominant sex educator.
For years, educators have noticed and
acknowledged disturbing increases in eating disorders, coerced underage sex and
low self esteem. This research is the first major look at how pornography might
be affecting the increase.
© Eva Whiteley 2012
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