Pornography is simply a real drug of the 21st century. Although it is little visible on a regular basis and even marginalized, it is not little dangerous. The average age in which children first saw pornographic content is today... 11 years. It's only 5th grade primary school. all 4th kid aged 7 to 12 years uses net pornography at least erstwhile a month. Regular, regular viewing of films or pornographic photos is declared by almost 1 in 4 teenagers. However, technological investigation clearly indicates that pornography destroys children first and makes it much more tricky than drugs – it rapidly and profoundly addicts, utilizing the same mechanisms as any drug. It is our work to defend children from him, as we defend their wellness and life from nicotine, alcohol or drugs.
Are our children safe?
Do we defend children from cigarettes, alcohol and drugs? What if there is an even more serious threat – and it is available to all kid at your fingertips?
Perhaps no parent would always agree that his children could buy cocaine or heroin in any kiosk or receive it for free online. No sensible parent would always let the presence of drug dealers in school or in his own home.
What if we said that an highly dangerous drug is available at all child's fingertips present – at any time of day and night, at school, on vacation, in the backyard or without leaving his own room? What's worse, the youngest people get access to it most frequently from... unaware parents.
That drug is pornography.
The average age in which children first saw pornographic content is today... 11 years. It's only 5th grade primary school. all 4th kid aged 7 to 12 years uses net pornography at least erstwhile a month. Regular, regular viewing of films or pornographic photos is declared by almost all 4th teenager.
In August, we started a joint run of Ordo Iuris and the Center for Life and Family, which is already joined by more friends, allies and volunteers, in order to halt for good "the drugs of the 21st century" – pornography.
How does pornography affect children?
Many people are convinced that pornography, unlike hard drugs, does not kill, and its harmfulness can be underestimated.
However, technological investigation clearly indicates that pornography destroys children first and makes it much more tricky than drugs – it rapidly and profoundly addicts, utilizing the same mechanisms as any drug. Even as a child, it can affect the full future, prevent the building of a happy and lasting marriage, destructively affect the psyche, deforming the perception of another man, anesthetizing violence, entrapping sexual disorder, destroying the image of his own body.
This destructive action, due to the easier access to pornography than ever, is not limited to those who are “involved in bad associations” but covers almost a full generation of children and youth today. Pornography is simply a real drug of the 21st century. Although it is little visible on a regular basis and even marginalized, it is not little dangerous. It is our work to defend children from him, as we defend their wellness and life from nicotine, alcohol or drugs.
However, we face a strong opponent. Pornographic manufacture is simply a device with which it is not easy to win, due to the fact that after its course there is simply a immense capital, a number of addicts “rebels” and decades of building the belief that pornography is simply a harmless “pleasance”.
What does discipline say about pornography?
Studies propose that, as a consequence of the usage of pornography, children:
- more frequently they exhibit undesirable behaviour and have lower levels of social inclusion;
- are more likely to make depressive symptoms;
- have a little emotional relation with caregivers;
- are more likely to experience various forms of violence, aggression and harassment.
But that's not the only problem. Watching pornography can besides contribute to:
- prior sexual initiation;
- more frequent risk-taking of sexual behaviour;
- self-image disorders (which may affect, for example, the improvement of eating disorders, compulsive behaviour or depression).
Pornography is an highly insidious opponent, due to the fact that by catching children, it destroys their future lives at a phase where they are not even able to full identify threats. What they engage in, having respective or respective years of age, may already affect their adulthood and hinder them from building a happy and peaceful future. erstwhile they grow up and want to start building serious relationships, marriages, they will begin their sex life – only then can this problem strike with all their power.
It turns out that the usage of pornography importantly impairs the ability to build healthy and satisfactory relationships. Studies show that adults active in pornography frequently have a distorted image of intercourse and the other sex (especially erstwhile it comes to bringing women only to the function of sexual objects), they resent that partners do not want to engage in different or even deviant behaviors that they watch in movies. As a result, married life frequently turns out to be unsatisfying, sexual dysfunction, and even avoiding intimate contact.
This, of course, reduces the satisfaction of the relation and as a consequence can lead to its disintegration. frequently reaching for pornography among spouses means a higher likelihood of divorce, as proved in 1 of the American studies. The degree of the harm to pornography is devastating, especially erstwhile we realize how widely it is available at our fingertips.
How do children get pornography?
Today, pornography is no longer VHS cassettes or magazines exhibited on side kiosk sites, nor even night bands of any tv stations. In order to scope it, you don't gotta face the mocking smiles of the seller in the store, you don't even gotta look for it. due to the fact that pornography is primarily the net today.
It was the improvement of this average that resulted in the revival of the pornographic manufacture and its expansion on an unprecedented scale – both consumer access and opportunities for producers have become almost unlimited.
And unfortunately – in a peculiar way they endure from the youngest again.
Their first contact with pornography is most frequently done via the Internet. In the era of universal access to the mobile Internet, erstwhile almost all teenager carries his own smartphone in his pocket or backpack, this does not origin any difficulties. More than a 3rd of young people (35.1%) in fresh studies conducted by NASK declared that she had first seen pornographic content utilizing a telephone or smartphone with net access.
Access to digital pornography is besides very simple: in this study, most children (73.0%) and young people (71.1%) declared that uncovering content of this nature on the net is easy for them, and 32.8% stated that it was the first time that they encountered it accidentally – through the mechanics of linking websites erstwhile searching for completely different content.
Instant access to pornography is now so easy that children can watch these destructive content even without parents knowing. This is besides reflected in the data: in a 2020 study, 75% of parents stated that their kid had never encountered pornography; in fact, 53% of these parents' children reported that their first contact with pornography was behind them.
So how are we expected to fight a threat we frequently don't really know about? How can we face a giant empire, frequently taking large profits from the harm of ignorant young people?
Time to halt the drug of the 21st century!
We have no illusions – this conflict will surely not be easy. However, given the magnitude of the harm to which this drug leads to the full young generation, we have no uncertainty that we must take it.
A fewer days ago we launched the run “Stop drug pornographyIt’s okay. ” This is an highly crucial undertaking for us, which has not only been the consequence of years of debate in our environment and deep concern for the problem of expanding dependence on pornography among young people, but besides as a consequence to the widespread downgrading and shallowing of this issue.
It is advanced time to introduce real and effective solutions in Poland to defend children and young people from specified devastating content.
The way so far, specified as declarative age verification on websites, is evidently a complete fiction. Therefore, after a long consultation with cybersecurity and psychology specialists, we have developed an optimal mechanics that will aid effectively control access to websites offering pornographic content.
We want to legally oblige pornographic entities to make access to websites dependent on effective verification of the user's age – based on verification mechanisms chosen by the supplier. It is his work to implement an effective solution. All suppliers will be checked by the body appointed to do so, and sanctions in the form of blocking of websites by net providers or blocking of payment services by their providers will be threatened for failure to meet the requirements.
The statutory protection of the youngest against pornography online has already been introduced in France and in any US states. These government requires age verification, e.g. by means of a "digital identification", i.e. the retention of information on the digital network to which a commercial entity can access to to verify the identity of a individual (a biometric verification based on e.g. user self-identification) or by means of an identity card or a commercial transaction strategy (electronic banking). Work is besides ongoing in another countries, e.g. Spain or the UK.
We besides want to implement akin solutions in Polish law. Our experts have prepared a bill to introduce mechanisms that effectively defend children from these devastating content. For specified a bill to enter into force, we inactive have a long way to go. We are presently in the process of collecting 1000 signatures under the project, which will let us to submit a proposal to the Marshal of the Sejm to registry the legislative initiative committee.
We started work in mid-August during a gathering with pilgrims in Jasna Góra, as well as at a gathering with our Sympathics in Oświęcim. We already know that this thought has received a affirmative consequence and large interest. This is simply a clear sign that many Poles are aware of this immense problem.
When we can collect the first 1,000 signatures, The Marshal will have 14 days to issue a decision to accept the notice. But this is where the hardest part begins. We will then start collecting 100,000 signatures under the bill. We'll only have 3 months, and we can only collect signatures in paper form.
Many friendly movements and communities expressed their declaration of aid and their engagement in these activities. specified a large action, and additionally carried out in specified a short time will not be an easy task.
As shortly as we are informed that the Marshal of the Sejm has issued a decision to registry the legislative initiative committee, we will launch with a large action of collecting signatures. Already today, we are asking you to be active in this fundraiser.
Together we can defeat the pornographic industry!
We request the maximum mobilisation of people who are aware of the large threat to the youngest is the widespread and uncontrolled access to pornographic content!
Today at Stop Narcotics Pornography.pl you can find the educational portal prepared by our specialists on the issues of pornography. erstwhile the committee has been registered, you will be able to download from there ready to print a card for collecting signatures as well as detailed instructions on how to do this correctly to give the utmost care especially in data protection.
Signatures can be collected among families, loved ones, friends, communities or members of the local community. Each of them will weigh gold.
After press conference, which we inaugurated a fewer days ago, we observed any intensity, sometimes even in world-wide environments. The danger of uncontrolled access to pornographic content is besides expressed by people and left-wing environments. This makes us happy – in order to effectively implement the solutions proposed by us, we request to build the widest possible social coalition.
However, we realize that in the coming weeks and months many masks will fall. It will shortly turn out who sees the fact about the pornography drug and who considers it “pleasure” with a small risk. Who cares about the real well-being of children and young people, and who only cares about the interests of the lobby of manufacturers and suppliers of websites that bring the youngest damaging content.
We have a large challenge ahead of us, but we are convinced that it is essential to take it.
It is advanced time to start protecting Polish children from pornography – drugs of the 21st century!
Monika Leszczyńska – Vice-President of the Ordo Iuris Institute for associate States
Marcin Perłowski – manager of the Center for Life and Family
