More kids, teens exposed to online porn in U.S.
www.chinaview.cn 2007-02-05 16:00:04
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- More kids and teenagers are being
exposed to online pornography, according to a study by the University
of New Hampshire published in the journal Pediatrics due out Monday.
The researchers said 42 percent of netizens from age 10 to 17 have
seen online pornography in the past year, mostly by accidentally
viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet.
Overall, 34 percent have unwanted exposure to online pornography,
up from 25 percent in a similar survey conducted in 1999 and 2000.
"It's beyond the wild West out there. You've really taken away the
age of innocence," said Dr. Michael Wasserman, a pediatrician with the
Ochsner Clinic in Metairie, La., who was not involved in the study.
Emily Duhovny, 17, a Marlboro, N.J., high school senior said
X-rated images pop up all the time when she's online. It was shocking,
but now, "more than anything, it's just annoying," she said.
Still, many survey participants said they were not disturbed by
what they saw, and Janis Wolak, the study's lead author and a
researcher at the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children
Research Center, said research is needed to determine how exposure to
online pornography affects kids.
The results of the reaserch come from a telephone survey of 1,500
Internet users, conducted with their parents' consent.
(Agencies)
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