6% of children aged 15 years or younger had accessed an adult website
5% of visitors to such sites had been under-18
One website alone had been visited by 112,000 boys in the UK aged between 12 and 17-years-old
Of the wider population, 23% of those who had used the net over the month had visited an adult site
Visitors to adult sites spent an average of 15 minutes looking at them during each visit and typically clocked up two-and-a-half hours of time in total over the month
Many clients come to therapy thinking that they have something wrong with them or that they are inherently bad or flawed. But if we look at the opportunities now available for people to become dependent on porn sites we can see the blame lies elsewhere. Clients get into porn when they are young and impressionable. If we think that the teenage brain doesn’t fully mature until the age of 25 we can imagine the powerful impact porn images can have on young people. We are not doing enough to protect young people from potential damage to their future adult relationships.