You're a Teenage Guy? So You Must have a Porn Addiction...

     The title says it all. The Dallas Observer posted an article in February stating titled "Too Much of a Bad Thing: Internet Lures Kids into Porn Addiction", which stated basically that the recent increase in use of the internet whether on a computer or phone by children and teenagers has caused a surge in porn addiction, mainly in boys. They go into detail about how middle schools and high schools are the perfect breading groups for aspiring porn producers and directors and their aspiring actors (the young boys and girls). Steve Schultz, a director at a popular porn addiction facility even goes as far to state that , "if a child has a computer or takes a cell phone to bed at night, [he] can guarantee that they're using it for some sexual purpose".

     Now, I don't know about you, but I take my phone to bed with me every night and also tend to take my computer with me as well. I'm also going to go ahead and throw this out there that I am indeed NOT looking at porn, but rather texting friends while either looking at facebook, watching Hulu, or maybe even working on homework. I'm not a guy, but I know plenty of guys that do the exact same thing as me, and as far as I'm concerned, they aren't up all night looking at porn. Maybe playing BlackOps till 4am, but not looking at porn. And to say that middle and high schools are the start of the amateur porn industry? I think that's pushing the limit a little too far. In my 7 years in middle and high school, not once did I hear about amateur porn being made by anyone.

     I will agree with some of what they're saying though. Many children wouldn't have been exposed to porn at such a young age if it weren't for late night TV shows or accidently Googling the wrong thing when researching for a school project. But with internet safety features that parents can install on their computers as well as the safety blocks schools put on, there are definitely ways to get around it!

     To say that the internet is causing the youth of today to have porn addictions and produce pornos I'd say is pushing it a little too far.