Pornography opponent Morality in Media says children are encountering pornography on the Internet at alarming rate — with their average\u00a0first exposure coming at age 11.<\/p>\n
MIM’s four-week \u201cBe Aware: Porn Harms\u201d National Awareness Campaign enters its second week on July 18th.<\/p>\n
Dawn Hawkins, MIM\u2019s Executive Director and director of the campaign, said pornography\u2019s consequences for children and their abusers rank among \u201cthe most disturbing aspects\u201d of material that is usually deemed harmless.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany child pornographers start with an interest in soft-core adult pornography, but over time turn to harder, more deviant porn and this leads the way to child pornography and molestation,\u201d said Hawkins.<\/p>\n
The campaign also highlights the modern parent\u2019s struggle against a more imminent threat, as children today stumble upon obscene material on the Internet at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany children are getting addicted to pornography because U.S. pornographers are providing free, obscene, illegal porn to kids online,\u201d said\u00a0MIM President\u00a0Patrick Trueman.<\/p>\n
Trueman noted that 11 years old is the average age of a child\u2019s first exposure to pornography, \u201cand for many it is earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly,”\u00a0he noted,\u00a0“U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder refuses to enforce federal obscenity laws which would protect children.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Pornography opponent Morality in Media says children are encountering pornography on the Internet at alarming rate — with their average\u00a0first exposure coming at age 11. MIM’s four-week \u201cBe Aware: Porn Harms\u201d National Awareness Campaign enters its second week on July 18th. Dawn Hawkins, MIM\u2019s Executive Director and director of the campaign, said pornography\u2019s consequences for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1152,36,1151,2265],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-addiction-to-porn","tag-children","tag-morality-in-media","tag-pornography"],"yoast_head":"\n