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Multiple countries are trying to force porn sites to have an efficient age verification. With frightening numbers like half of 12 year old boys go monthly to porn sites.

Sure for an adult who remember the time where at best one kid would have brought a magazine to school, it feels concerning. However, it's been easily 20 years that every household has high speed internet which is full of porn. So the kids under 30 (let's call them Gen-Z) had a massive access to porn while growing up.

Is there any "sociologicial" studies about how it impacted these young adults ? Are they sexually more fucked-up than the millennials ?

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[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you talking about America or Europe? In America, sex is for the devil and casual sex sends you straight to the 9th circle. But in seriousness, youre right. Much of America is taught abstinence and shame, so its not as free and open as I wish it would be.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We may have been taught abstinence and shame, but, that didn’t stop us from having sex.

What it did do was make us stupid and have unprotected sex, which lead to all sorts of harm, simply because we didn’t know better.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, kinda does. The grand majority of people are largely unfamiliar and uncomfortable with sex or sex-adjacent play as a casual thing.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Your link doesn't address my assertion?

Better sex ed reduces teen births. I'm not refuting that or even referring to that.

I mean, kinda does. The grand majority of people are largely unfamiliar and uncomfortable with sex or sex-adjacent play as a casual thing.

Emphasis mine. It does prevent ^* us from having sex, just at a more abstract level. Only a subset of society is comfortable with sex and sex adjacent activities as a form of casual play.

^* Prevent, not stop. Words are important....

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry. Wrong pub med out of the hundreds of studies on what kind of sex ed works. Here. Have some more.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3194801/

https://news.uga.edu/abstinence-only-sex-education-study/

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/sex-education

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354741953_Comprehensive_sexuality_education_to_reduce_pregnancy_and_STIs_in_adolescents_in_the_United_States_A_systematic_review_and_meta-analysis

I’m not sure how you can do any kind of search on this and conclude that abstinence-only sex ed works. It doesn’t. We know that.

We know that kids are going to fuck. The only real difference is if they’re comfortable telling adults when something goes wrong; and also know if something is going wrong.

Shame and guilt doesn’t stop behavior- it causes people to hide it.