Yes, different, but no one is disagreeing. If you read the document further, Morse says:
We know from a growing body of evidence, particularly reports from clinical practitioners who are working with sex offenders—for example the Lucy Faithfull Foundation—who have catalogued how hardcore pornography depictions of rape or depictions of activity with a child are a gateway to people moving on to seek out the real thing. In fact, convicted sex offenders have reported that they were surprised at how easy that journey was for them. There is a large body of clinical evidence that this is happening, and it is being seen by police and psychologists.
As a 'gateway drug', it doesn't really work because
"hardcore pornography depictions of rape or depictions of activity with a child" isn't something that people will come across unless they are specifically searching for those things. (And I think that normal people would report it if something like that suddenly popped up on their screens.)
I have no doubt that people who abuse children sexually will have started with watching porn, but why would they start watching hardcore depictions of rape or depictions of activity with a child if that stuff didn't already appeal to them in the first place? (See parenthesis above.)
It isn't just about adolescence btw.
Also, I think you'll find that 'choking' has been normalized...even though it's pretty risky.
That is not something that I will
find. It's what I just
wrote: "Adolescents who don't yet have any idea what sex is like may start to think that choking and slapping the people they have sex with is a normal and enjoyable form of sex, which may contribute to normalizing sexual violence. So may all the examples of sexual coercion, extortion etc. that seem to prevail in the world of porn."
I doubt that a 50-year-old will suddenly begin to slap and choke his wife. As I wrote: Adolescents who are only just starting to get interested in sex may see examples of choking and slapping in otherwise normal porn, which may make them think that this is what sex is supposed to be like. Adults probably already know that it's not.
The link is crystal clear - young children are watching porn and noticing the normalization of self-generated explicit pictures and doing it themselves. There has been a 4 fold increase in CSAM online over the last decade. In the UK at any moment between 600,000 and 800,000 (mostly men) are online looking at it.
I doubt it. I can believe that
"in the UK at any moment between 600,000 and 800,000 (mostly men) are online looking at" porn, but I don't believe that so many people are looking at children being sexually abused. Link to statistics?
In the UK most child sex abuse is carried out by children - up from a third in 10 years ago.
Like I said: Children are easily influenced because they don't know much about anything, so I would expect them to be influenced by depictions of sexual coercion and extortion in porn.
I'm not sure that is a good comparison - the context here is the addictive nature of porn.
Sex is a primal urge. If people don't have access to the real thing, they will resort to fantasy sex, e.g. porn. That doesn't make porn (or sex) an addiction even though some people may develop an addiction-like attitude to porn.
The only solution to the problem is proper sex education about more than reproduction and STDs.
Many years
Annette Westrup, a Danish school teacher, had her students bring their parents' porn magazines (it was
that long ago!) to school so they could discuss them. It appeared to work - even though I can imagine how embarrassed it may have made some parents. And it would be a great opportunity to point out to students that slapping, choking, coercing and extortion aren't elements of most people's sex life.
