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    • Study: More Kids Exposed to Online Porn

    By NewsFactor Network | February 5, 2007

    A study published in February’s Pediatrics magazine offers both good and bad news for Internet safety advocates. The bad news is that more children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, harassment, and bullying. The good news is that fewer are subjected to sexual solicitation online.

    Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 told University of New Hampshire (UNH) researchers they had seen online pornography in a 12-month period. UNH conducted the study for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The survey compared youth experiences in 1999-2000 with those in 2005.

    “Internet providers and host sites need to do more to protect youth from unwanted pornography,” Janis Wolak, one of the authors of the study, said in a statement. “They need better filtering and blocking and more and easier ways for youth to report problems.”


    Aggressive Tactics

    According to the UNH study, one-third of young Internet users were exposed to unwanted pornography in 2005. That number rose from 25 percent in the 1999-2000 report. Much of that pornography was extremely graphic, including images of people engaged in sexual acts or sexual deviance or violence.

    Aggressive tactics by pornography marketers, combined with the increased speed and capacity of computers and Internet connections, are partially to blame for the increase, researchers said.

    In another negative trend, online harassment rose to 9 percent compared to 6 percent in the earlier survey. Study authors said the increase was consistent with growing indicators of online incivility among kids.

    A troublesome finding for researchers revealed that unwanted sexual solicitations, pornography, and harassment were rarely reported to ISPs or any authority. Kids and their parents were generally unaware of places they could make reports, such as the CyberTipline, which is maintained by NCMEC to receive online and telephone reports from citizens and ISPs.


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