Child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg told
The Age young teenage girls copy sex acts they see online.
"Girls have new sexual practices. We've found that when they view that stuff they feel compelled to copy it," he explained, "It's causing young women to do things they wouldn't have done but because it's online they think it's normal. We are talking about girls who have just come into puberty."
He cited a popular teen magazine poll that said 41% of girls had been asked to post naked or semi-naked pictures of themselves on the Internet. Children, Dr. Carr-Gregg explained, don't understand that this is illegal.
Children also don't understand what they are seeing or doing. Normalizing pornography is very dangerous - that is how pedophiles and human traffickers often desensitize their victims to the horrors they endure. Children who normalize themselves become candidates for committing aggressive sexual behavior - which can lead to damaging consequences across a lifetime.
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