UK teens are online porn addicts, survey reveals
2009 February 24
Another internet porn survey carried out on behalf of a filtering software company. It reveals that UK teens spend 87 hours a year looking at porn.
Yet the Electricpig writer has sneeking suspicion that 87 hours understates the reality, and I’m inclined to agree.
I’d like to see a survey that asks the same target group about how internet porn makes them feel. Do they recognise any problems caused by looking at porn? Do they feel hooked? What have they learned? Who can they talk to about it? Do they need to talk about it?
Can we really conclude that all these teenagers are ‘addicts’? Of course not.
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I work in a support role with young adults, and I agree that 87 hours a year doesn’t sound very much; hardly enough to make them ‘addicts’.
I have seen teenagers who are investing a lot of time into internet chat or online gaming. In the extreme, some might be spending this amount of hours in a single week! But I think it’s easier for young people to talk about gaming and web surfing than looking at porn. What really goes in in teenager’s bedrooms, and how it affects them, we can only guess.
Jocelyn
Screw them all at Electricpig and elsewhere.
They are not interested in a proper investigation of porn usage and the effects it has on users.
The EU had a report on porn recently, too. Likewise, it does not ask any hard hitting questions.
Please DON’T tell me that internet based porn is NOT an issue for teenagers because I know for a fact that it is a real issue. From young male teens who use porn as a source of sex education in a limited way, through to young teenage girls who are now posting explicit images of themselves all over the web on sites like Face Book, Bee-boo,etc.
The major difference is that we now have a new young internet savvy generation, a generation of school aged kids that are more skilled & IT literate than their own parents. This means internet porn IS a big issue because more youngsters have more exposure to it than ever before and on that basis porn is something that doesn’t get talked about much, well only with a passing giggle or chuckle, but I think inevitably more young people will find porn a problem for them (weather they recognize this or not).
**Lets all bear in mind that Porn is a massive global industry, porn doesn’t come from no where, it doesn’t pop up from outer space. Its created deliberately for the purposes of hooking the end user and the ultimate aim of course is the making of money. BIG MONEY!! lets get this into perspective here. Porn obsession is a deliberately engineered design by the porn manufacturers (porn makers, creators).