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Don't know what other posters understand but one of the overwhelming problems facing young people and I think the broader community is a very unhealthy addiction to online pr0n. Free. Easily accessible. Private.
There has been plenty of evidence that young children and teenagers have become badly warped through access to pr0n. Billie Eilish publicly and graphically opened this can of worms in 2021 when she said how screwed up she was after being exposed to violent pr0n from 11 onwards.
This essay explores how one person has created a very effective response to protecting children from online pr0n. Worth a think.
Louisiana legislator Laurie Schlegel wanted pr0n websites to do more to protect her state’s children. Now her law is the blueprint for the rest of the country.
......What she has since achieved—after two years in office—has made international news. Not only has Schlegel curbed the billion-dollar online pr0n industry for the first time in history, forcing websites to protect kids in Louisiana and pull out of at least three U.S. states, she has offered a legislative blueprint for others across the country.
“I am truly humbled to see that we began a movement that has swept the country and began a long overdue conversation about how we can protect kids from hardcore pornography,” she says.
Schlegel’s crusade started back in December 2021. She had listened to The Howard Stern Show and 21-year-old pop sensation Billie Eilish talking about online pr0n. Eilish told Stern that she began watching “abusive” images at the age of 11, and that this had warped her sense of how to behave during sex and what women’s bodies look like.
“No vagina looks like this,” Eilish told Stern. “I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much pr0n.”
Schlegel was struck by Eilish’s openness, that she was “just a young girl being vulnerable enough to share those details with the world.”
The singer’s story also chimed with Schlegel’s professional experience both as a sex addiction therapist and a court-appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children in the foster care system. She knew the issues facing young clients raised on unlimited free online pr0n—the decoupling of intimacy from sex; the inability to get aroused without pr0n playing in the background; a warped idea of what your partner actually wants.
“If you’ve never had your first kiss but you’ve seen hardcore pornography, it’s going to mold the way you view sexuality,” Schlegel said. “You’re not dealing with a fully formed adult brain that's like, ‘Oh, so I shouldn’t strangle my partner?’ ”
If Schlegel understood the damage pornography causes, she also knew how easy it is for children to access it. And she realized that now she was a state legislator, she was uniquely positioned to do something about it.
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You will have to go to the webs sites to read the full story. The URl seemed to be corrupted.
There has been plenty of evidence that young children and teenagers have become badly warped through access to pr0n. Billie Eilish publicly and graphically opened this can of worms in 2021 when she said how screwed up she was after being exposed to violent pr0n from 11 onwards.
This essay explores how one person has created a very effective response to protecting children from online pr0n. Worth a think.
The Woman Who Stood Up to the pr0n Industry—and Won
Louisiana legislator Laurie Schlegel wanted pr0n websites to do more to protect her state’s children. Now her law is the blueprint for the rest of the country.
......What she has since achieved—after two years in office—has made international news. Not only has Schlegel curbed the billion-dollar online pr0n industry for the first time in history, forcing websites to protect kids in Louisiana and pull out of at least three U.S. states, she has offered a legislative blueprint for others across the country.
“I am truly humbled to see that we began a movement that has swept the country and began a long overdue conversation about how we can protect kids from hardcore pornography,” she says.
Schlegel’s crusade started back in December 2021. She had listened to The Howard Stern Show and 21-year-old pop sensation Billie Eilish talking about online pr0n. Eilish told Stern that she began watching “abusive” images at the age of 11, and that this had warped her sense of how to behave during sex and what women’s bodies look like.
“No vagina looks like this,” Eilish told Stern. “I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much pr0n.”
Schlegel was struck by Eilish’s openness, that she was “just a young girl being vulnerable enough to share those details with the world.”
The singer’s story also chimed with Schlegel’s professional experience both as a sex addiction therapist and a court-appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children in the foster care system. She knew the issues facing young clients raised on unlimited free online pr0n—the decoupling of intimacy from sex; the inability to get aroused without pr0n playing in the background; a warped idea of what your partner actually wants.
“If you’ve never had your first kiss but you’ve seen hardcore pornography, it’s going to mold the way you view sexuality,” Schlegel said. “You’re not dealing with a fully formed adult brain that's like, ‘Oh, so I shouldn’t strangle my partner?’ ”
If Schlegel understood the damage pornography causes, she also knew how easy it is for children to access it. And she realized that now she was a state legislator, she was uniquely positioned to do something about it.
https://www.thefp.com/p/laurie-schl...47&post_id=137240891&isFreemail=true&r=21at6c
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...0n-gave-her-nightmares-and-destroyed-my-brain
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You will have to go to the webs sites to read the full story. The URl seemed to be corrupted.
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