Remember hiding that dog-eared Playboy under the bed? Your first introduction to sex might have been well-written articles with artistically photographed nude women interspersed throughout. For most of America’s youth, those times have long past. Nowadays there isn’t much to hide, except maybe your browser history. Kids, often more tech savvy than their parents, ogle XXX-rated photos and videos before they are legally old enough to do so.
We need to talk about sex education.
Should kids have access to pornography? Absolutely not. Teenagers are curious, though. There’s no magic age when you have a sexual epiphany. No one suddenly has all of the answers when they turn 18. There’s a serious void and only the Internet to fill it.