Shockingly, in Australia the average age of first exposure to pornography is being reported at between 8 and 10 years of age.

The increasingly easy access to pornography online amongst young kids is alarming. 

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Lives are negatively impacted by pornography due to the addictive nature of porn and its impact on the brain.

Pornography viewing leads to family breakdown, prostitution, sex trafficking and other crimes against women and children... not to mention sexual assault! 

At such a young, impressionable age, the neuroplastic brain of a young child is consuming content that will shape their views moving into adulthood.

For example, according to an article published in October 2020 by The Sydney Morning Herald, 42% of men aged 18 to 34 did not consider “hitting, punching or restraining” another person to be “a type of domestic violence.” 

A similar percentage of men in the age range also didn’t classify sexual assault, degrading and punishing a person or isolating them from their friends as domestic violence.

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Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said the Australian federal government “expects the digital industry to do more to keep their users safe”.

“The Online Safety Act that comes into force in January requires new and updated industry codes to be developed, and includes examples of the matters that the government intends these new industry codes to address,“ he said.

“These include preventing children from setting up online accounts without the consent of an adult; ensuring that customers have access to a filtered internet service, should they choose to take it up; and providing information about online safety and procedures for dealing with prohibited and illegal online content.

We thank the Minister for the work undertaken so far and encourage him to continue putting strong and clearly defined protections in place for children ignoring lobbying from the sex industry about concerns harming their work.

Furthermore, we encourage decision makers within the Federal Government and online industry stakeholders contributing to the proposed Online Safety Act to reject negative influence by those in the adult industry seeking to protect their work over fears they may be forced “offline.”

At CitizenGO, we expect to see measures such as online age verification for access to X-rated sites as a bare minimum protection.

Sign the petition today and make a stand for the wellbeing of all kids.