{"id":39352,"date":"2013-08-02T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pornography_is_distorting_the_lives_of_the_young\/"},"modified":"2013-08-02T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:00:56","slug":"pornography_is_distorting_the_lives_of_the_young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39352","title":{"rendered":"(The Age) Melinda Reist&#8211;Pornography is distorting the lives of the young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A15-year-old boy confided in me after I addressed his class at a Sydney school last year. He cried as he told me that he had been using porn since the age of nine. He didn&#8217;t have a social life, had few friends, had never had a girlfriend. His life revolved around online porn. He wanted to stop, he said, but didn&#8217;t know how.<\/p>\n<p>I have had similar conversations with other boys since then.<\/p>\n<p>Girls also share their experiences. Of boys pressuring them to provide porn-inspired acts. Of being expected to put up with things they don&#8217;t enjoy. Of seeing sex in terms of performance. Girls as young as 12 show me the text messages they routinely receive requesting naked images.<\/p>\n<p>Pornography is invading the lives of young people. Seventy per cent of boys and 53.5 per cent of girls have seen porn by age 12, 100 per cent of boys and 97 per cent of girls by age 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/comment\/porno-invasion-is-distorting-the-lives-of-the-young-20130727-2qrhe.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A15-year-old boy confided in me after I addressed his class at a Sydney school last year. He cried as he told me that he had been using porn since the age of nine. He didn&#8217;t have a social life, had<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39352\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,204,94,101,168,116,95,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pornography","category-science-technology","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}