Ryan, a senior in high school, recalls his early sexual encounters as attempts to replicate an idea of sex he says was shaped by pornography. "Me getting on top of her, and holding her down, and doing all this stuff that I had seen and was just trying to implement and just trying to replicate ... as a man who had only experienced porn, that's what I perceived to be the only way that you could do it."
The internet brought with it a boom in access to free pornography, and although many sites warn that the content is for adults 18 and over, there is very little standing in the way of accessibility. Children and teens can easily find it with a simple search. A survey of 330 men by the American Psychological Association found that the average age of first exposure to pornography was 13.37 years old, with the youngest exposure as early as 5 years old.
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