What Does Porn Do To Kids?

Online pornography is an ever-present reality in today’s world. I recently asked Google this question: “What percentage of the internet is pornography.” I was told it’s estimated that around twelve percent of the internet is dedicated to pornographic content. In a recent letter to First Things journal, reader Isabel Hogben wrote these compelling words about the power of porn: “Online porn shatters human dignity by reducing an extraordinary, singular personhood to a pixelated consumable, rather than recognizing each and every human being as an embodied soul and remarkable phenomenon. Porn presents a child, the ultimate moral work in progress, with a deficient and depraved account of the self, love, and how we ought to treat each other. It teaches kids that a person is something to view from afar, commodify, and objectify, and its accessibility to children is an excellent way to spawn a generation of media-obsessed, atomized, hyper-consumerists.”