A major survey of British teenagers' attitudes to pornography has found that significant numbers of young people aged between 14 and 18 are watching it frequently, with 10% saying they are addicted to sexually explicit content.
Teachers say they are being left to "pick up the pieces" from the damage pornography causes in schools, with the proliferation of adult material leading to warnings of sexually harmful behaviour among teenagers.
The headteacher of one school involved in the survey said the impact of violent pornography on her pupils was so severe that teachers had received special training to respond to a large increase in reports of sexual abuse.
The study by Dignify, a charity that researches sexual abuse, spoke to 4,000 young people between the ages of 14 and 18 in Hertfordshire. It found that 22% of students had viewed porn on multiple occasions.
Of those, one in five said they had a porn habit and one in 10 said they felt addicted. Those who had watched porn more than once were more likely to report having acted out something they first saw in pornography videos.
Young people were asked how old they were when they first saw pornography. The youngest reported viewing was at three years old. The average age was 12. Nonconsensual image-sharing was also a huge issue. A third of young people had received a nude video or photograph, and of these well over half had received a nude image from a stranger.
Teaching unions said schools across the country were struggling to meet the demands placed on them in educating children about online harm, in particular porn.
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