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Pornography Addiction Survivor Fights for Age Verification: ‘Porn Preys’ on Kids’ Minds

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Pornography Addiction Survivor Fights for Age Verification: ‘Porn Preys’ on Kids’ Minds

By Movieguide® Contributor

A pornography exposure abuse survivor is speaking up about the importance of requiring pornography sites to use age verification systems, hoping to save others from porn addictions. 

“There is no place for children in the porn industry,” Rachel Robison, who battled a porn addiction for 13 years, told attendees at a briefing at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. 

She shared that she was exposed to pornography at 7 years old, which led to a 13-year-long struggle to overcome her addiction to it. 

“If these sites would have had age verification, then my life would have looked extremely different, and I would not have endured the pain and suffering that I did growing up,” Robison said. 

She explained that her porn addiction led to extremely poor mental health as well as an eating disorder. 

“The mental health issues I was facing were rooted directly in my pornography addiction,” Robison explained. “Porn stole my innocence and polluted my mind, creating a dark reality that almost took my life.”

She continued, “Porn preys on the minds of children and young people with no attempt to protect them, but rather to make a profit despite their innocence. And I stand here today on the right side of history, choosing to fight for age verification on porn sites for my younger self and the children of the upcoming generation.”

READ MORE: MOST AMERICANS WANT AGE VERIFICATION ON PORN SITES, STUDY SHOWS

More and more states are working to do something about this, implementing age verification on pornography sites. 

Texas and an adult entertainment industry trade group are currently battling it out in the Supreme Court over age verification mandates. Opposition to the age verification systems argue that it infringes on their First Amendment rights.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, “Kids can get online porn through gaming systems, tablets, phones, computers. Let me just say that content-filtering for all those different 25 devices, I can say from personal experience, is difficult to keep up with. I think that the explosion of addiction to online porn has shown that content-filtering isn’t working.”

However, Justice Clarence Thomas asked, “Assuming we agree with you, and I think most people do, that kids are to be protected, how much of a burden is permissible on adults’ First Amendment rights?”

It’s unknown what the Supreme Court’s ruling will be, but Mashable reported “A decision will likely come this summer.”

READ MORE: SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH IN ON TEXAS’ PORN SITE AGE VERIFICATION LAW

In Dr. Ted Baehr’s book “The Media-Wise Family,” he warned against the dangers of pornography exposure:

It is very important for families to understand that destructive sexual content is not just found in sleazy sex shops. Research has shown that the exposure of randomly selected male college students to sexually suggestive R-rated theatrical movies increases their aggressive behavior toward women and decreases both male and female sensitivity to rape and the plight of the victim. After viewing this type of material, both males and females judge a female rape victim to be less injured, less worthy and more responsible for her own plight.[viii]

Extensive research has been conducted on the aggressive pornography to be found in R-rated films. These movies are easily accessible to teenagers. Many of these movies are broadcast on cable TV. Many such movies show scantily clothed or nude females in sexually arousing situations being attacked, raped, tortured, etc. The research shows that male viewers can be conditioned by watching these movies into associating sexual arousal with inflicting injury, rape, humiliation, or torture on females. As Dr. Cline has noted, “Where these films are available on videotapes (which most are), these can be repeatedly viewed in the privacy of one’s residence and masturbated to with the associated risks of negative or antisocial conditioning noted above.”[ix]

This study, of course, has been made all the more frightening by the growth of internet pornography. As the internet grew from being merely a service for sending text data by modem into the primary video delivery method for the mass media of entertainment, its use for spreading pornography has become ubiquitous. The quantity, and high definition quality of, pornography has exploded and one of the results has been a growth in human sex slave trafficking. As the number of men driven to the depths of pornography soars, so too does the demand for “something more.”


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