Posted November 08, Recent media campaigns have linked children watching online pornography to an increase in the number of school children committing sexual assault. One article linked school students sexually assaulting each other to the rise in online porn. But is there evidence children watching online porn is linked to an increase in sexual offending? We know the public is concerned about the potential harm to young people watching online pornography, with a Senate inquiry on the matter due to report towards the end of November We also know how easy it is for children to watch online porn, not only on the computers in their bedrooms but on their smartphones.
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Growing Up in Pornland: Girls Have Had It with Porn Conditioned Boys
Child actresses who took controversial roles
The impact of porn on men has been studied, but little is known about how it could affect women. Between the ages of 11 and 16, Neelam watched porn most days. She quickly got over that initial shock. She wasn't alone. For Neelam, it started with a simple curiosity about sex. As Neelam became more well-versed in the kinds of videos that were available, she began to develop certain tastes. It just felt like I was satisfying a need.
Fame and power tend to corrupt. This is proven through politics, business and everyday life. Children, thrust into the limelight and bestowed with money and recognition can suffer the exact same fate. Nowhere is this more prevalent than within the world of Hollywood, where countless child stars have fallen prey to unspeakable crimes and situations, often at the behest of those charged with their protection. It is time to look over the tragic lives of some of the most adored children of the silver and small screens.
It's a slippery slope to place a child star in a highly controversial role. Take Linda Blair's breakout performance in 's The Exorcist , for example. The movie was so horrifying, that even the famed film critic Roger Ebert thought it deserved an X rating instead of the R for its "brutal shocks, [and] almost indescribable obscenities. Revealing that the "outright lies" hurt her and led her to turn to drugs and alcohol, the mental toll these roles can take on an impressionable kid are almost as bad as the characters themselves. While it's easy to brush off Blair's harrowing experience on '70s audiences not being as liberal as today's viewers, public backlash is still the norm when child actresses take on parts involving sexual or macabre scenarios.