Translations:AY Honors/Internet/Answer Key 2/102/en

Dealing with pornography and sensitive materials online:

With just a few clicks, pornographic materials (either images or text) can be found by anyone online. The average of first exposure to pornography is age 8 to 11, often introduced by a friend or classmate "hey, check this out". Border-line pornographic and sensual material is found across all media and is impossible to avoid near-nude sexualized pictures of men or women. It is not possible to protect children from ever seeing something semi- or full-pornographic material, but adults can have an age-appropriate conversations (YES, plural!) about sexuality, harmful material like pornography, and what to do when the child encounters something pornographic. (Remember, it's not if but when.) God made the human body beautiful and to be observed and enjoyed in specific contexts of a monogamous heterosexual marriage relationship. Great harm can come from regularly consuming pornography psychologically (low self-esteem, self confidence, shame, guilt, idealizing, addiction, objectification of others), relationally (negative view of self, violent view of sex, submissive to a partner the point of pain, wrong idea about purpose of sex and fulfillment, unable to be aroused or climax with a live partner, difficulty communicating, objectification of self or partner), and spiritually (outside of God's ideal for those in relationship with Him).