First hand I want to apologize, because honestly I didn't read all of the threads. I read like the first 8 and knew I had to respond.
I think I have a pretty good handel on this topic because I am currently in an AP Psychology course at my high school. This information I am going to tell you can be found in any college psych text book.
If you show pornography to kids, exspecially under the age of six, this will 100% effect their development. If you just started seeing pronography during the adolescence, there probably won't be an effect.
Let me explain. Some guy (this is bad, i have the AP test soon) did a study on violence and kids. So I will grant that this is a little different, but the same concept. He showed videos of adults, doing some sort of task, and then when they got angry, they would do a certain action. On one video, he would punch this body ballon, the other video the guy would strangle it, and the other wouldn't really do anything, might do another activity.
The point is, these kids repeated the behavior of that video when they were in that same situation. This shows that BEHAVIOR IS LEARNED.
There are countless developmental theories that suggest that infants learn morals, rules of society, and gender roles from adults, and the parents exspecially. When these kids see these adults doing this, and it is accepted, exspecially when the participants are young, it seems okay and acceptable to them. This is really dangerous when the child wants to become independent and become a grown up so to speak. It would be really bad if it is a messed up film, like bondage and wierd crap like that.
The reason why it wouldn't be so bad to teenagers is because they have already determines their values. However there is still frontal cortex growth, meaning behavior can still be learned. Could some people be more prone to learning behavior then others? Yes. This is a form of intelligence, and intelligence is genetic. The whole nature nurture debate which I am sure you guys have discussed in the past.
All those tests that have been done probably weren't done by psychologists. It is people that want to believe it has no effect, for whatever reasons. Maybe so they can access pornography easier. To me thats sad. Should people get in trouble for watching porn? I don't know, that is a whole nother issue that I don't want to get into. But at a young age, they should get deeply punished. I am serious, it will effect their behavior.
You will never be able to regulate anything that has already been established, and that goes for anything and everything. People will always find ways. It is just how the world goes.
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