Esperts indicate that the problem of children utilizing pornographic content and easy access to it concerns an expanding number of young people. In fresh years, the age of children reaching for pornography for the first time has fallen. The study of the NASK State investigation Institute of 2022 indicates that in Poland this kind of content was seen by 55% of children under the age of 12. The vast majority of them search through electronic devices.
In the NASK State investigation Institute study of 2022, 73 percent of children declared that uncovering pornography was not hard for them. The age of people entering pornographic websites has besides been lowered. In Poland, 55 percent of children saw pornography before turning 12. The vast majority of them search through electronic devices.
Specialists in improvement psychology indicate that any contact of a insignificant with pornography negatively affects the improvement of his brain, the formation of attitudes, relationships and bonds. Recently, work on effective kid protection has been started in countries specified as France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Italy is besides preparing for the introduction of protective mechanisms.
The bill prepared by the Ordo Iuris Institute aims to introduce a general ban on the making available of pornographic material online in Poland in a way that allows children to watch them. The owners of specified portals are to be obliged to implement an effective mechanics to verify the maturity of the user. The effectiveness of this strategy is to be assessed by the competent authority. Services that have not introduced verification solutions will be included in the central register. For failure to comply with the obligation, circumstantial websites will be subject to blockage by net providers and blockage of payment services by providers of these services.
The proposal essential for the registration of the legislative initiative committee was submitted to the Office of the talker of the Sejm, who has 14 days to consider it. After the marshal has agreed to registry the committee, a collection of 100,000 signatures under the bill can begin.
The motion was preceded by a press conference before the Polish Parliament. The event was opened by Marcin Perłowski, manager of the Center for Life and Family.
– Pornography is the display of something most intimate, as something very violent, vulgar, causing demolition of marital relations. This is simply a very wide problem. The fight against pornography is our common effort – he pointed out.
Adv. Rafał Dorosinski of Ordo Iuris pointed out the harmfulness of pornography, especially for children and young people.
– We should not let children to have unlimited access to something that is clearly harmful, specified as alcohol, tobacco. Therefore, we submit to the talker of the Sejm a bill as part of a citizen's legislative initiative, which aims to guarantee that access to pornographic sites is for adults only," noted the board associate Ordo Iuris.
Lidia Sankowska-Grabczuk from the Coalition for Life and household besides spoke. It pointed to the negative effects of pornography on women.
– If a young man is permeated with images that contain violent force against women, he then implements them into real life. Women are the biggest victims of pornography – she stressed.
Paweł Kwasniak, president of the Confederation of NGO initiatives of the Republic and coordinator of the Marches for Life and household besides called for the fight against pornography.
– We, as men, should bear witness to the fact that pornography is an evil that destroys human ties, marriages, the innocence of children. Therefore, we are very pleased that many men are joining this action to combat pornography," he noted.
