Ahliyah Williams

Dr. Hinks

5/31/19

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Class Movie Time and Discussion: Come To Mommy- Porn.

The thing that almost every adolescent boy watches, Porn. From toxic masculinity to gender roles, the porn industry shapes the way that young boys and even girls view their own selves and even the role of who they should be as a partner. With the young ages of these children whose brains are still developing based on their environment, porn can very well be one of those factors that are shaped into boys mind. These young children all grow up to be adults. How could we continue to live in a world full of adults with a fantasized mindset of how love should be because of the influence that porn has had on them while young? Then another question would be how young is too young to watch porn? The adolescence stages are so important due to the developmental factors that are happening. With the continuation of porn, it will affect gender roles, masculinity, femininity, and real connections as we know it.

 

Young boys who begin to watch porn start as early as 11 years old. Now here’s one significant problem with that. From ages 11-14, which is the average ages that young boys begin to watch porn, their brain and body are going through significant changes. Puberty hits, and socially they begin to want to fit in and have “cliques”. Of course, every parent wants their child to have friends, but when that child is mixing porn with wanting to fit into a crowd, it can be a recipe for disaster. Many kids are influenced in the first place by their peers to watch porn. They may go over a friends house and see a porn magazine or watch porn with their friends. Whatever the reason is, these kids are very easily influenced to watch porn by their friends, which is the first step in this process. Also, the brain changes in many ways during these years. The decision makes or prefrontal cortex and frontal lobes are growing. These enable young people to make ethical decisions and their own judgments. So, when a young child is watching porn, which by the way 88% of porn contains violence against women, the decisions or judgments made by a child can be very well stunted on shaped around what they see in porn.

 

, what influence does porn actually have on these young people, and how can that affect them as they grow to become adults? In general, the effects of porn on young people are extensive. Anything from supporting violence to even racism. Starting with violence. As a young child when your watching a porn website that is titled: “Bitch Gets Her Throat Pounded Until She Gags”, they might have no idea what any of that means, but when they click on it and see the violent behavior, they will be shocked, but eventually may become attracted to that behavior and want to actually act it out. Something like this, a child as young as 11 years old may not be able to, but when they do have sex or become adults, they want to do that to other females. Don’t get me wrong there are females out there that may like that, but what one has to understand is that porn is a business. These women are being paid to look like they’re enjoying these acts, even though in reality it is causing no pleasure at all. Racism. Present in Porn, but overlooked because it seems like there are communication and consent for these people to be portrayed with these stereotypes. Porn videos with Hispanic’s role-playing as immigrants. African- American men being seen as dominating an “innocent, vulnerable” white women. Young children are seeing these videos also. Imagine the effect this will have on a developing child. Most racists have always been racist and are because of their parent’s belief. So when you watch a racist porn video at a young age, you know no better than to carry those stereotypes with you along the way into your adulthood.

   

Porn also tremendously makes disconnections between people and even making it harder for adults to build relationships. Noah Church, a young man who watched porn in his early years got into a relationship with a woman. When about to have sexual intercourse, he expected his body to react totally different than how it did. If porn affected this mans bodily reactions to seeing a real woman’s body, it just shows how influential it is on changing the way people experience sex. There is not much real in the world anymore. Plastic surgery is even introduced in porn. Women and men change their bodies to look “perfect”. In real life no man now woman looks perfect, therefore porn is a very harmful factor on real men and women having connections between each other even with all their flaws.  

 

In conclusion, the effects that porn have on young people’s minds in perceiving things that in the real world wouldn’t even be naturally possible give us an idea of the type of people that will be in this world. My title, Come To Mommy- Porn is meant to explain how just like a parent can be influential and can raise a child, porn can do exactly the same thing. The people who will grow off the fantasies that the porn industry are selling will be of characteristics such as violence, racism, and unrealistic sexual expectations. With the continuation of porn, it will affect gender roles, masculinity, femininity, and real connections as we know it.

 

References

 

Joe Latham (2017). The effects of pornography on children and young people. Australian Government.

Hank Pellissier. (2018). Inside The Tweeners Brain. Great Schools.

(2016). How Much of Porn Depicts Violence Against Women? Psychology Today.

Amy Morin. 11-Year-Old Child Development Milestones. Very Well Family.

Belinda Luscombe. (2016). Porn- And the threat of virility. .