Porn epidemic?
However, there is strong evidence for the idea that media viewing affects behavior, says Mary Anne Layden, co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology program at the University of Pennsylvania.
And today, she says, kids see more pornography than ever before, and what they encounter is much more raunchy and violent than previous generations, when they likely encountered tamer images, like a Playboy centerfold. The average age of a first glimpse at pornography now is 5, she says.
"We are getting to the point where every 5-year-old has seen an image of rape," she says. "What happens to society when we do that? A child's first sexual image is group sex, rape, sadomasochism. ... That's a dramatic turnaround (from previous generations). It says something dramatic about our society."
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