BY HERGIT LLENAS
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t is inevitable that your children look at pornography,- said Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer, an organization dedicated to sex education at Rutgers University. In the past, teenagers used to come into contact with pornographic material between the ages of 11-14, almost always through printed magazines, graphics and drawings. At present, thanks to internet access, it is estimated that the exposure age has dropped significantly. Experts fear that, as early as eight years old, children are exploring explicit sexual content.
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In many cases this happens accidentally, surfing the web or when receiving emails from unknown addresses.This was evidenced in a survey, whose purpose was to study the cybernetic behavior of adolescents. It found that 47% admit to opening emails, even if they don’t know who sends them.
the same. Then, the boy begins to look for more and more crude cinema, even incurring the consumption of videos where acts considered aberrant are practiced.
This uber-stimulation in turn leads to excessive masturbation, promiscuity and levels of alienation that can lead to pornography addiction. Therefore, we must It is common for parents to talk with their do everything possible to remove the taboo children about potential threats to their label and sit down to discuss this issue with physical security: “Do not talk to strangers, young people. It is possible that each requires do not ride in the car of a stranger, do not a particular dialogue, because the approach separate from me, do not walk alone at night,” will vary depending on the personality and they warn them firmly . However, when it discernment of each. This talk should be comes to their psychological safety, they aimed at guiding, understanding that the lack words and strategies to protect their one exposed to pornography could adopt children; even knowing that pornographic treatments, routines, languages other than images threaten mental hygiene, violate human intercourse and virtual ones. innocence, are unrepresentative When you are going to have this conversation, of the true sexual it is advisable to avoid euphemisms such as act and assault the bees, seagulls and the like, urging you to psyche of sexually use anatomically accurate words, such as immature little penis, vagina, breasts, testicles. Likewise, people. the experts suggest that you do not shout, embarrass, humiliate or punish a surprised If you do not stop child with their hands in the dough. On the early, the appetite contrary, they invite you to create a space for XXX content of trust, understanding and love in which a is exacerbated to sincere dialogue is possible. the point that it desensitizes the For religious, cultural, historical and all kinds viewer, because of reasons !, these dialogues are not taking there comes place as often as they should, but turning a a time when blind eye and opting for silence is no way out the brain stops when what is at risk is integrity and safety of stimulating with mental hygiene of our children.