Boy working with laptop
Gabe was in eighth grade when his mom discovered he’d been watching porn on the computer. “I routinely checked his browser history because I assumed he was probably watching it,” says Gabe’s mother, Greta.
Greta told her son she saw that he’d been watching. “He was so embarrassed, he literally hung his head in shame,” she says. “I told him that it was completely fine and natural to be curious about sex, but I warned him that looking on the web for porn sites would take him places he wouldn’t want to go. I also reminded him he had a little brother who was not, under any circumstances, to see it.”
With porn sites readily available on all digital devices and social media use soaring, it is inevitable that most kids will be exposed to porn at some point. While boys make up the bulk of teens watching porn, girls watch it too, though they don’t always seek it out the way boys do. In one survey, 93 percent of male college students and 62 percent of female students said they saw online porn before they were 18.
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