Violent Sex Videos: Study Reveals Horrifying Child Porn Use

A British study finds that porn consumption among children is already enormous.

Violent Sex Videos: Study Reveals Horrifying Child Porn Use

A British study finds that porn consumption among children is already enormous. The scientists also found that watching the videos led to a significantly different perception of sexuality. For example, many adolescents assume that girls would like violence during sex - and act accordingly.

One in ten children in England has seen porn by the age of nine. 79 percent of 18-year-olds are already familiar with violent porn on the Internet. With devastating consequences, as a report on porn consumption among children and young people shows: many young people believe that sexual violence is part of it.

She will never forget the story of a 12-year-old girl whose boyfriend choked on her first kiss - because he had seen it like that in porn and thought it was normal, said children's officer Rachel de Souza when the report was presented. She warned strongly against underestimating the impact of pornography on the internet as it became increasingly violent.

In a representative survey of around 1,000 adolescents aged 16 to 21 in England last year, 47 percent believed that girls "expected" sexual violence such as beatings or choking. 42 percent believed girls "like" this. 47 percent of those over the age of 18 have experienced violence during sex.

The content of the porn that children watch today is not comparable to the images that their parents of the same age could find in magazines, which were also hidden on the top shelf, the report said. The new porn often contained scenes in which women were humiliated and violently inflicted on them. This porn plays a "key role in normalizing and tolerating sexual violence against women" - and is said to be all the more dangerous the earlier children are exposed to it.

The British Parliament will discuss a new law on online security in the coming days. It introduces stricter age controls to ensure that under-18s do not see adult-only content on internet platforms. The children's representative supports the initiative. But this is not a "cure-all," she warned. She sharply criticized the fact that online networks had not introduced such controls long ago.

According to the report, it is mainly the common online networks that children come into contact with pornography through. Almost 40 percent of 16 to 21-year-olds stated that they came across pornography on the Internet more or less by accident. Around half of those surveyed said they had deliberately searched for pornography.

Twitter was the most common source, with 41 percent saying they'd seen porn on the 13-year-old site. It was 33 percent on Instagram and 32 percent on Snapchat. 37 percent visited specific porn sites and 30 percent used search engines.

Parents "often don't even know how easy it is to find violent and degrading content on the Internet," the report said. "Parents cannot stem the flow of this content in online media," de Souza told the BBC. It's the billionaire tech companies that can and should do that.