You say you want reliable data? Okay, how about this?
Svedin CG, Donevan M, Bladh M, Priebe G, Fredlund C, Jonsson LS. (2023). Associations between adolescents watching pornography and poor mental health in three Swedish surveys. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. Sep;32(9):1765-1780. doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01992-x.
You say you want reliable data? Okay, how about this?
Svedin CG, Donevan M, Bladh M, Priebe G, Fredlund C, Jonsson LS. (2023). Associations between adolescents watching pornography and poor mental health in three Swedish surveys. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. Sep;32(9):1765-1780. doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01992-x.
"The repeated cross-sectional surveys did not find any consistent associations across years between poor mental health and ever having watched pornography or the frequency of watching pornography.”
Štulhofer, A., Tafro, A. & Kohut, T. (2019). The dynamics of adolescents’ pornography use and psychological well-being: a six-wave latent growth and latent class modeling approach. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 28, 1567–1579, doi: 10.1007/s00787-019-01318-4
"To explore possible links between adolescent pornography use and psychological well-being more systematically, this study focused on parallel dynamics in pornography use, self-esteem and symptoms of depression and anxiety. A sample of 775 female and 514 male Croatian high school students [...] was used for the analyses. [...] We observed no significant correspondence between growth in pornography use and changes in the two indicators of psychological well-being over time in either female or male participants.”
McKee, Alan (2010) Does pornography harm young people? Australian Journal of Communication, 37(1), pp. 17-36.
"Our survey shows that age of first exposure to pornography does not correlate with negative attitudes towards women.”
• Luder, MT., Pittet, I., Berchtold, A. et al. (2011). Associations Between Online Pornography and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents: Myth or Reality?. Arch Sex Behav 40, 1027–1035. doi: 10.1007/s10508-010-9714-0
"This study aimed to compare the sexual behavior of adolescents who were or were not exposed to online pornography, to assess to what extent the willingness of exposure changed these possible associations, [...] We conclude that pornography exposure is not associated with risky sexual behaviors and that the willingness of exposure does not seem to have an impact on risky sexual behaviors among adolescents."
And to put it all in perspective:
• Diamond, Milton (1999). "The Effects of Pornography: An International Perspective". In: Elias, James; Bullough, Vern L.; Elias, Veronica Diehl; Brewer, Gwen; Douglas, Jeffrey J.; Jarvis, Will (eds.). Porn 101: Eroticism, Pornography, and the First Amendment.
"A last thought: I believe it part of natures' evolutionary heritage that sexually erotic scenes be part of any individual's development. Since until recent times, privacy has been a luxery only afforded to the very few and then to the very rich. Only in modern times are children expected to develop without witnessing their parents or others, and certainly animals, in sexual activities. As such a basic feature of evolution, reproduction would not be left completely to chance. Attraction of so many to pornography and other sexual themes is most likely our biological and social heritage from this fundemental aspect of life. It is only culture and politics which makes it seem unusual."
"The concern that countries allowing pornography and liberal anti-obscenity laws would show increased sex crime rates due to modeling or that children or adolescents in particular would be negatively vulnerable to and receptive to such models or that society would be otherwise adversely effected is not supported by evidence."
McKee, Alan (2010) Does pornography harm young people? Australian Journal of Communication, 37(1), pp. 17-36.
"Our survey shows that age of first exposure to pornography does not correlate with negative attitudes towards women. Studies with non-explicit representations of sexuality show that young people who seek out sexualised representations tend to be those with a pre-existing interest in sexuality. These studies also suggest that current generations of children are no more sexualised than previous generations, that they are not innocent about sexuality, and that a key negative effect of this knowledge is the requirement for them to feign ignorance in order to satisfy adults’ expectations of them." (McKee, 2007c, p. 119)."
"[...]for children, their parents’ expectations caused more problems for them than the information they encountered about sex. Children are quite aware that parents want them to be ignorant about sex; and they consciously perform this ignorance for them. [...] More than this, the need to pretend to be innocent for their parents was one of the most distressing things about their experience with sexuality in the media: ‘for some, much of the embarrassment … seemed to derive from having to pretend that they did not know about such things, in order to keep their parents happy’ (Buckingham and Bragg, 2005, p. 62)."
I can personally testify to the last point. At the age of ten I found a sexy book that someone had left in the guest room and read it with intense curiosity. Just as indicated by the studies above, the only negative aspect of this experience was anxiety about being discovered with it by my parents, thinking they might not approve. That was over fifty years ago and I'm still (not) waiting to be traumatized by this purportedly "inappropriate" exposure. I've also never been in trouble with the law in any way nor even caused an unwanted pregnancy.
BS. We all know that "peer review" and "evidence-based" have become meaningless terms, corrupted to serve the agendas of the industries. Go back to watching the porn you are trying to justify.
You say you want reliable data? Okay, how about this?
Svedin CG, Donevan M, Bladh M, Priebe G, Fredlund C, Jonsson LS. (2023). Associations between adolescents watching pornography and poor mental health in three Swedish surveys. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. Sep;32(9):1765-1780. doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01992-x.
"The repeated cross-sectional surveys did not find any consistent associations across years between poor mental health and ever having watched pornography or the frequency of watching pornography.”
Štulhofer, A., Tafro, A. & Kohut, T. (2019). The dynamics of adolescents’ pornography use and psychological well-being: a six-wave latent growth and latent class modeling approach. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 28, 1567–1579, doi: 10.1007/s00787-019-01318-4
"To explore possible links between adolescent pornography use and psychological well-being more systematically, this study focused on parallel dynamics in pornography use, self-esteem and symptoms of depression and anxiety. A sample of 775 female and 514 male Croatian high school students [...] was used for the analyses. [...] We observed no significant correspondence between growth in pornography use and changes in the two indicators of psychological well-being over time in either female or male participants.”
McKee, Alan (2010) Does pornography harm young people? Australian Journal of Communication, 37(1), pp. 17-36.
"Our survey shows that age of first exposure to pornography does not correlate with negative attitudes towards women.”
• Luder, MT., Pittet, I., Berchtold, A. et al. (2011). Associations Between Online Pornography and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents: Myth or Reality?. Arch Sex Behav 40, 1027–1035. doi: 10.1007/s10508-010-9714-0
"This study aimed to compare the sexual behavior of adolescents who were or were not exposed to online pornography, to assess to what extent the willingness of exposure changed these possible associations, [...] We conclude that pornography exposure is not associated with risky sexual behaviors and that the willingness of exposure does not seem to have an impact on risky sexual behaviors among adolescents."
And to put it all in perspective:
• Diamond, Milton (1999). "The Effects of Pornography: An International Perspective". In: Elias, James; Bullough, Vern L.; Elias, Veronica Diehl; Brewer, Gwen; Douglas, Jeffrey J.; Jarvis, Will (eds.). Porn 101: Eroticism, Pornography, and the First Amendment.
"A last thought: I believe it part of natures' evolutionary heritage that sexually erotic scenes be part of any individual's development. Since until recent times, privacy has been a luxery only afforded to the very few and then to the very rich. Only in modern times are children expected to develop without witnessing their parents or others, and certainly animals, in sexual activities. As such a basic feature of evolution, reproduction would not be left completely to chance. Attraction of so many to pornography and other sexual themes is most likely our biological and social heritage from this fundemental aspect of life. It is only culture and politics which makes it seem unusual."
"The concern that countries allowing pornography and liberal anti-obscenity laws would show increased sex crime rates due to modeling or that children or adolescents in particular would be negatively vulnerable to and receptive to such models or that society would be otherwise adversely effected is not supported by evidence."
McKee, Alan (2010) Does pornography harm young people? Australian Journal of Communication, 37(1), pp. 17-36.
"Our survey shows that age of first exposure to pornography does not correlate with negative attitudes towards women. Studies with non-explicit representations of sexuality show that young people who seek out sexualised representations tend to be those with a pre-existing interest in sexuality. These studies also suggest that current generations of children are no more sexualised than previous generations, that they are not innocent about sexuality, and that a key negative effect of this knowledge is the requirement for them to feign ignorance in order to satisfy adults’ expectations of them." (McKee, 2007c, p. 119)."
"[...]for children, their parents’ expectations caused more problems for them than the information they encountered about sex. Children are quite aware that parents want them to be ignorant about sex; and they consciously perform this ignorance for them. [...] More than this, the need to pretend to be innocent for their parents was one of the most distressing things about their experience with sexuality in the media: ‘for some, much of the embarrassment … seemed to derive from having to pretend that they did not know about such things, in order to keep their parents happy’ (Buckingham and Bragg, 2005, p. 62)."
I can personally testify to the last point. At the age of ten I found a sexy book that someone had left in the guest room and read it with intense curiosity. Just as indicated by the studies above, the only negative aspect of this experience was anxiety about being discovered with it by my parents, thinking they might not approve. That was over fifty years ago and I'm still (not) waiting to be traumatized by this purportedly "inappropriate" exposure. I've also never been in trouble with the law in any way nor even caused an unwanted pregnancy.
BS. We all know that "peer review" and "evidence-based" have become meaningless terms, corrupted to serve the agendas of the industries. Go back to watching the porn you are trying to justify.