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Lots of children have access to the internet at a very young age. I guess what you're suggesting is sex education for 7-year-olds who might accidentally watch a video on the school yard, etc.? In fact, even 3-year-olds often use their parents' tablet to watch P*w P*trol and may wander off with it.
Whether a 7-year-old sees adult content accidentally, intentionally, because of peer pressure or any other reason, I still think age appropriate sex ed would be helpful. I acknowledge that minors do view inappropriate content and that it is generally unhealthy, but since it can happen, and does happen, a good approach would be to educate them preemptively.
For example, these guildelines for sex ed in EU, which caused some outrage in conservative circles a few years back, suggest that "sex in media and dealing with it" is a topic for 6 to 9-year-olds.
Of course you can't cover every outlier, but can you really stop 5th graders from sending weird shit to their friends because they're trying to be edgy?
Edit:
Another way to think about it:
It's pretty easy to install device-based "parental control"-types of software that can't be circumvented by a 3yo. That is definitely the parents' job.
uh yes, in fact, I think that would be very healthy. Not in a horrific South Park way, but in a "sometimes adults get naked because they like each other. And sometimes they film it. If someone shows you a video if that, it's okay to not want to watch it. It's okay to walk away. I someone pressures you to watch it, it's okay to tell an adult" way.