Teens Hooked on Porn
Documentary looking at how British teenagers are increasingly being tempted by the limitless porn available on the Internet, with some becoming addicts. Three of them tell their stories of differing use of porn and their battles to overcome its lure, providing a unique insight into a part of what it's like growing up today.
Whether they live in America, Britain, or elsewhere, most teenage boys have been exposed to some form of pornography. But the Internet has radically escalated that exposure - to the point at which many adolescents are addicted.
This program follows the stories of teenage porn addicts as they struggle with the issues that drive their behavior - although not all are open to soul-searching. Darryl, age 17, doesn’t think he has a problem, but 16-year-old Malcolm has recognized his addiction and has begun seeing a therapist.
Colin, age 14 and a devout Christian, needs help too but is unsure about approaching his pastor. All of their stories are tied together by issues of anger, aggression, and inhibition, and raise questions about the role of parents.
The Documentary should not have those visuals in the starting...that just inverts the thought process with which you sat to watch the video!!
This isn't Teens hooked on Porn, this is the wrong documentary lol
c'mon thats life..
dude needs to clean his fingernails...gross!
This is silly, you can no more get addicted to porn than to comedies or crime dramas. The only thing I've seen that was even more stupid was a film about fast food addiction.
It's a very volatile issue and not as simple as---"if you've got an itch then scratch it." After all, the human libido is a powerful central organizing overlord of the personality and sex is anything but a casual social experience. I've seen a good survey of everything porn-wise in my life and one thing is certain to me.... there's a difference between the kinds of erotic imagery that promote intimacy, sharing and growth and the "hardcore porn" that depicts sexual love as selfish sexual aggression and exploitation which seeks to shock and stimulate. While all these variants strike me as acceptable on occasion between consenting couples, to practice sex routinely in the more depersonalizing, more carnally aggressive form is troubling at best and like the therapist said..."it strikes me as unhealthy" too. There's just something inherently isolating about the practice of habitual auto-eroticism to the exclusion of shared sexuality within a respectful relationship. IMHO, young people, especially, need to learn first about intimacy and sexuality, then they can role play and test the boundaries of sexuality. Life is a marathon, not a sprint---and pornography feels too much like a sprint to me.
This isn't really representative, in my view. Maybe Daryll's the most typical, but most people recognise the unnaturalness of most professional porn. Few people are like Malcolm or Tom: so overwhelmed by it that they need to seek advice and block themselves from it. With most people, there is a phase that in time goes and does not distort how people view women, sex or - worst - relationships.
Ugh...I wish we had sex ed in school here in the US...
I gotta be honest, porn has helped me in a lot more ways than it has harmed me. (It has harmed me in 0 ways)
But after watching porn, I have:
-gained a better appreciation for the female body
-gained a better understanding of the female body
-gained a respect and acceptance of myself and my body
...and a bunch of other similar things.
I think Lukas is absolutely wrong in his response.
I don't like how this doc makes it out like porn is a bad thing.
Oh c'mon! "Porn addiction"? What a joke! This belongs in the same category of "science" that once claimed that masturbating caused blindness. Teen boys are at the stage in their life when hormones are at their max and it is only natural to want to explore and experience their sexuality. And don't even get me started with the claim that watching porn is going to turn thousands of young men into serial rapists....
how do u guys get addicted? yeah i watch porn but i watch it when i don't have something to do although if there wasn't any porn at all i would go crazy just wanting to see it i'm not sure how people 30 years ago didn't watch porn cuz they didn't have computers and they turned out ok
Of course you need to teach the right values too to have respect in yourself and all the others too. And to do something in your life.. have ambitions, motivation.
I think you should learn to enjoy porn when you are a single, alone and feeling horny. Then you want to please yourself by viewing the material.. but you must after live on with your life not to get addicted and have love in your life.. with your family members, friends, in your work, hobbies, studies.. and then eventually you´ll find your attractive one who you will also have sex and love together.. this cures everything. With teenagers the parents are a lot responsible to show the way and have love in the family. Of course you need to teach the right values too to have respect in yourself and all the others too. And to do something in your life.. have ambitions, motivation.
I have been addicted to porn for 20 odd years now and can say that it has perhaps made me feel so lonely in my adult life - I am 37 years old now and still single after 10 years. The strange thing is porn addiction can quite often happen to very up right moralistic people, the type of people where the subject of sex was taboo in their family, this often makes matters worst and family's should learn to open up more about sexual matters and not just leave it to school education and your mates!. The other thing I could relate to in the documentary is the fact that too often when we are not expressing our selves, the anger can build up and that anger is released partly through porn, so hence the addiction. I want to thank the makers of this program for the insights it has given me and I prey for all those that also have had and have my problem with porn. It is a real devastating problem for some people and can really turn you from a happy joyous person in to a sad loner, maybe not over night but gradually until one day you may find your self a lonely person who has spunked (quite literally ) a big part of your life up the wall! - As inferred in the program I think the first stage is to getting help once you realize you have a problem and to open up with someone you can trust. I was also bullied at school and can see now how this can trigger porn. Hope my comment helps someone else.
People are really blowing this out of proportion, i watched porn multiple times every day during my puberty, nothing wrong with that. The whole porn thing stops as soon as you get a girlfriend, a real life person that actually touches your wee wee :P and because of the massive variety of porn if you search enough you can almost always find a visual representation of your fantasies so your creativity is driven as well. Plus when you finally have sex it's ten times better because you want it so bad. The only bad thing about porn is that the way the women are treated is not realistic and your should separate fantasy en reality, but you will learn that when your girlfriend gets pissed because your tried to stick it up the backdoor xD
I don't have a problem with viewing pornography, as long as it doesn't present an obstacle in your life.
Hello.I am European and surprised, because i find that really native usamerican teen girls are in porn,like FTVs etc. Firts time i have since they are aest european girls. Why teen girls do that is my question? Ninfo, crazy haeds, drugs, famally problems, money, etc? In America whith is life level i never suppose nothing like that.
Best regards to all.
I am European and surprise now because i find that are really native usamerican teen girls in net porn, like FTVs etc. Firts time have since they are east european girls,etc.
Why american teens do that, is my question? Nifo, crazy heads,drogs,familly problems,money? In America with the big live level i never suppose nothing like that.
Damn Chris
I don't think that it's unnatural for young people (girls and guys) to watch porn overall, but I worry it will set unnatural standards for both sexes to a) live up to and B) expect from the opposite sex.
Young adults will feel they don't look the same as the men/women in porn that their penis/breasts aren't big enough and inadvertently may really not understand how intimate and serious having sex with someone can be, while of course may lead to low self esteem from trying to live up to the images and pressures seen in porn. You can really feel how uncomfortable the girls were about how the guys were viewing porn, and like they didn't feel they lived up to what was going on. The girl hit it on the head when she said "You just think aren't I enough?" Plenty of women end of feeling this way and sometimes men do too.
I also worry that they are getting their tips on how to have sex from porn as well. These parents should be talking to their children about what to expect and what sexual intercourse can be like, without stifling their sexual desires or telling them that sex is wrong.
Simply put, there is a time and place and a maturity level that should be present, and how it is in porn, is a very exaggerated version of what can happen in real life.
In my opinion, I believe some pornography is OK, but as with anything once it begins to take control of your life that's when it becomes a problem. There will always be pornography, but I think that to reduce the risk of it becoming a problem, we must as a society change our taboos and views on sexuality. I have had the great fortune of living in two different cultures where sexuality is viewed differently in both places. The place where sexuality is embraced and deemed appropriate to express, I find pornography is less of a problem. However, in the other place, pornography is a huge problem. I think that the more accepting we are of sexuality as a culture, the less chance that people will secretly have to go to pornography as a means to experience that sexuality.
I'm so disgusted by these comments! I'm 16, and I watched porn for like 3 times a week for a year and a half and it tore my life apart. You're not going to wake up one day and realise "I'm a porn addict!", if you view it on a regular basis have you ever tried coming off it? No? It has the same effect on your body as heroin and is just as addictive. Please please at least google the effects of porn, because if you're putting this stuff in your head at least see what it's doing to you. My sexuality is unknown, I went into a depression and I had absolutely no self-esteem. Please, take my warning and look into this, I just can't sit here ignoring how many people could be in danger of so many problems in the future
I think there's a balance to be struck. The lads in the caravan who swap porn on their phones and discuss it openly are notable for their clear ability to socialize - with each other and with girls their age.
Whether or not the other two young men in this documentary have friends or girlfriends is not explored fully here. We assume, instinctively, that their social lives are not as developed as those of the group of lads.
Is this the fault of porn? Or is porn merely a consequence of having few friends and few female friends in particular? Too much emphasis was placed here on the two boys 'kicking the habit', instead of encouraging them to express their sexuality in healthier, more productive ways. Hopefully, this is the next step for both of them.
My concern leaving this documentary is that these two boys have simply been convinced that porn is dirty and shameful - an assertion which needs to be balanced by affirming the positive aspects of sex with a flesh and blood human being.
The boys needed encouragement to develop social skills enabling a healthy sex life. Without this, the boys have been made to feel dirty and shameful by the authority figures in their lives. Without clarifying that sex itself is not, by extension, dirty and shameful, the rehabilitation of these boys is at best incomplete, at worst irresponsible.
wow - these boys really need a hobby. talk about wasting your young life :/