Is teen addiction to porn a growing problem?

[wa3zrm]

The statistics are truly shocking. Children aged 12 to 17 are one of the largest consumer groups of online porn. Experts say this early exposure to sexually explicit video can hook kids on hardcore and often violent imagery.
Shelley Lubben is a former adult film actress turned anti-porn advocate. In 2008, she created the pink cross foundation which offers resources for teens struggling with porn addiction.
"We are raising a whole generation of porn addicts," says Shelley, "When you view pornography, it creates a chemical reaction in your brain, and for a youth who is in puberty, it's like a hundred times more stimulation."

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[WickedKitchen]

must sill be in puberty...huh.

[Thunder_Snus]

I love the fact that a former porn star is now an "anti-porn advocate." My guess is someone from high school wandered upon one of her videos and told everyone at the reunion and now she is an "advocate" against it.

[Frosted]

....and porn's a new thing is it? If I didn't find a porn mag as a teenager I would've gone mad.
Got to admit it's more readily available.....how we deal with that as parents is new ground.

[SpitFire]

I love the fact that a former porn star is now an "anti-porn advocate." My guess is someone from high school wandered upon one of her videos and told everyone at the reunion and now she is an "advocate" against it.

In case that is the reaosn for her "change of mind", i really would love it.

[Skell18]

....and porn's a new thing is it? If I didn't find a porn mag as a teenager I would've gone mad.
Got to admit it's more readily available.....how we deal with that as parents is new ground.

exactly! Everything these days is an addiction, its just called being a teenager, my teenage years would have been boring without porn, cigarettes, hooch, mad dog 20/20 and thunderbird! lol

[wa3zrm]

exactly! Everything these days is an addiction, its just called being a teenager, my teenage years would have been boring without porn, cigarettes, hooch, mad dog 20/20 and thunderbird! lol

I agree with everything except the MD and TB.... talk about nasty hangovers! Beer *besides the porn" were involved during my early teen years. Believe it or not, the drinking age back then was 18... if you were old enough to fight and die for your country, you could drink. Now I guess that you can't die for your country until your 21

[resnor]

Pretty sure she is Christian now. Kinda like Chrissy Moran, another former porn actress who speaks against porn now.

[Skell18]

I agree with everything except the MD and TB.... talk about nasty hangovers! Beer *besides the porn" were involved during my early teen years. Believe it or not, the drinking age back then was 18... if you were old enough to fight and die for your country, you could drink. Now I guess that you can't die for your country until your 21

I would have loved it not to include the MD and thunderbird, but they were much cheaper than beer and they got you drunk much faster I was in the supermarket yesterday and saw Hooch on sale! I thought they had stopped selling that years ago after all the fiasco over alcopops but clearly not, I bet it still tastes as bad as it did back in the 90s! Drinking age is still 18 here

[wa3zrm]

I would have loved it not to include the MD and thunderbird, but they were much cheaper than beer and they got you drunk much faster I was in the supermarket yesterday and saw Hooch on sale! I thought they had stopped selling that years ago after all the fiasco over alcopops but clearly not, I bet it still tastes as bad as it did back in the 90s! Drinking age is still 18 here

They still sell MD over here.... don't know about TB. The shelves in our liquor stores have tons of MD... personally, I drink cheap extra dry domestic red wine.

[Burnsey]

exactly! Everything these days is an addiction, its just called being a teenager, my teenage years would have been boring without porn, cigarettes, hooch, mad dog 20/20 and thunderbird! lol

Thunderbird? Rilly? lol You kids were deprived of Ripple I guess.

[squeezyjohn]

Nothing changes! It's just a lot easier for them lot today .... lucky, lazy b**tards!

[Snusdog]

I bet it still tastes as bad as it did back in the 90s!

No Skell....you must face the reality that you and I are old now..........in the 90s we were young....desperate.......and too stupid to die

I am quite certain it would kill us now.......or.......at least lay us out under a park bench somewhere along the banks of the Thames....muttering show tunes and talking out-loud to no one

[whalen]

I am addicted to cat porn now...I keep looking for this particular bald headed bastard......

[Snusdog]

I am addicted to cat porn now...I keep looking for this particular bald headed bastard......

Sick MOFO.......bitches are where it is at

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