philosopee

• No, there are clear differences in development and maturity in children and young adults.
• This is a p*dophile slogan.

• Pornography shows an unrealistic depiction of sex.
• Adolescents' brains are still developing
• "Under 18" doesn't specify to what age porn would be available to. Is it 17? Or 13? There is a major developmental difference.
• From personal experience, being exposed to porn as a minor damaged my sexuality.
• Normalizing youth to pornography could lead to more vulnerability to abuse and predators.
  Note, I believe that we should have tighter restrictions on porn access. The first time I viewed it was by accident, because I misspelled a website name. I wasn't even pubescent yet.

I discovered porn on accident, and if we had tighter restrictions then I would've discovered it when I was older and more mentally ready.

Growing up, I have observed that (most) parents try to do their best to have a balance of letting children explore while also protecting them, but the majority goes too far in one direction or the other. An obscene amount of youth are exposed to p*rn before adolescence, for example. While I grew up with my peers not being allowed to watch age appropriate movies and tv shows. There is almost no balance, either parents are overprotective or let their children do whatever they want.

I would like to do more research on this topic, but I do not believe that men naturally have higher sex drives, as much as it is culturally more acceptable for men to be sexual and to crave sexuality. Women are told to be modest and "save themselves for marriage", therefore aren't able to express their sexuality as openly as men.