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Abigail Bray,Melinda Tankard Reist

Big Porn Inc

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  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    One of the greatest problems we face is that many adults lack the skills, knowledge or strategies to critically analyse and understand the longer term impacts that sexualisation/pornification have on the behaviour of boys towards girls and, eventually, men towards women. The evidence is potentially one of the most toxic elements in society and it is time that those responsible for propagating this material be held accountable. When the history of public health is written, I am sure that this battle will sit alongside the struggle against the tobacco industry, infant food formula manufacturers and elements of the alcohol industry, in significance
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    Studies back this up, showing that children who view porn on the Net become desensitised to this material and may then become sexually abusive towards others
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    Many professionals expressed their concerns at the level at which girls are now objectifying themselves.
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    Journalist, Caitlin Flanagan, says “[w]hat’s most worrisome about this age of blasé blowjobs isn’t what the girl may catch, it’s what the girls are most certainly losing: a healthy emotional connection to their sexuality and their own desire”
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    As boys grow, so does the desensitisation.
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    Porn shuts down a boy’s natural feeling, as it places little value on intimacy, empathy or respect of partners in pornographic material. A growing body of research also shows that viewing porn is likely to make boys more sexually aggressive, to do whatever they feel they can get away with, and to want to act out what they have seen
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    This exposure can impact a boy’s life in ways it’s hard to retreat from.
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    Whether intentional or not, the sexualised marketing to children is negatively impacting their lives, attuning them to pornographic themes and behaviour.
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    One of the many concerns around this active sexualising of small children is their desire to re-enact the scenarios they’ve been exposed to on their peers, creating a new level of child abuse.
  • TaeTaehas quoted2 years ago
    As noted media critic Professor Mark Crispin Miller puts it, “The official advertising worldview is that your parents are creeps, teachers are nerds and idiots, authority figures are laughable, nobody can really understand kids except the corporate sponsor”
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