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Addicted to porn by age 12: 'I'm not getting my childhood back'
Children aged five and under are being exposed to pornography online, leading to addiction, Sky News has learned.
Warning: This article contains details you might find distressing Research carried out and shared by the YMCA'S Dignify Project shows that the age of children seeing sexual content on the internet is getting younger. The project, which works to protect children and young people from the harmful effects of pornography, said children "can't unsee what they've seen".
The average age of children seeing pornography is 12, according to Dignify. Nicola Lee, from Dignify, told Sky News that when delving "deeper" into their data, they have discovered that some children who first viewed pornography aged five and under are also "reporting addiction to pornography".
"So it wasn't just a case of they saw it at that age," Nicola added, "it actually has developed with them into their older years, and they're now telling us that they have an addiction." One young woman, Shaniah Williams, told Sky News she first saw pornography at just seven years old, after being "exposed to harmful sexual behaviour" when she was six, which prompted "a curiosity" to search online for answers. She described content being available to her on "certain platforms.
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