'Don't wait': how to talk to teenagers about porn

A generation is growing up with online pornography. What impact is it having on them – and how should parents handle it?

When Jed first heard from friends about websites where you could see naked women, it sounded too good to be true. So one afternoon, aged 11 and with his mind straying from homework, and while his mother was busy, he typed “boobs” and “sex” into the search bar of the family laptop.

“My first reaction was: ‘This is confusing.’ I knew a bit about sex, but there were men doing painful stuff to women,” he recalls.

If girls are reluctant to do something, you pressure them because you think, ‘Women do it in porn. Why don’t you?’

I’d see girls in the street, realise I couldn’t just click a button and see them naked, and get frustrated

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2ZuIJXi