The Power Of Deviant Sex Depictions On Teens

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The Power Of Deviant Sex Depictions On Teens
"Even if you're not looking for it, you could be innocent," said 15-year-old Zach. "If you go on the computer, on the Internet, and you're looking for something good, it will find you." That "it" is pornography, and it's hardcore. "It is graphic," Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, emphasized. "It is explicit. It is deviant. It's aberrant. Kids are seeing content that no 12 or 13-year-old is mentally, psychologically, or emotionally prepared to deal with." Child psychiatrist Dr. W. Dean Belnap said pornography actually shuts down a part of the brain. "There is a loss of free agency because it demands a repetition of the experience over and over again," he explained. "Pornography shaped my want for sex and what I wanted to do whenever I started having sex, big time," 16-year-old Justin confessed. "It wasn't just like, 'Oh, I want to have a relationship with this girl and have sex with her.' I just want to have sex with as many as I can and then sex was pretty meaningless, you know what I mean. I just wanted to do what they did on the porn." It's not just boys becoming addicts. "It pretty much kind of destroyed our lives because we depended on it and it just broke friendships... relationships," Courtney, 18, admitted. "It broke, like, our respect for ourselves and our respect for others."