Name: Do We Know the Side Effects of Viewing P*rn at a Young Age?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Do We Know the Side Effects of Viewing P*rn at a Young Age?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Do We Know the Side Effects of Viewing P*rn at a Young Age?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-23. Transcript available.

what's especially alarming to me and you know it's what you experienced right
because you
when you were 13 years old when you were first exposed exposed to porn is that
children you know
are just en masse being exposed to not playboy right not the centerfold that
used to be but
the free porn tube sites because you know it's free they have access do you
guys know that
children are accessing those like is there is there statistics behind it oh
yeah i mean you know
i think you know one study from 2022 was saying that 75 percent of 13 to 17
year olds have viewed
internet porn i mean i think would probably be more than that and right every
kid has a device
you know there's five-year-olds that could click through the internet filters
are not doing a good
job and you know parents who you know may not even know how to implement
internet filters for their kids
even if they do you know they can't control all the time so they can't be at
school and you know
other places when they go to their friend's house or whatever it's just what
filters are they using
are you are they because they're the ones that you suggest kind of that people
use um i don't have any
particular brands that i would suggest but you know there's like so many
different apps that people
can install you can get like routers that could actually block the content at
the router level oh
that's awesome i didn't know that yeah and so there's stuff like that out there
but i know states
are stopping people from like a lot of states are pro you have to upload an id
now well there's like
this whole movement in the united states right now that is saying look we
understand that kids are
accessing this content and we want to protect kids from viewing and i call it
um a form of secondhand
sexual abuse right for kids to be witnessing this kind of content and from my
perspective i know how
much of this content isn't just hardcore right it's actually criminal right
where they could be watching
um a real rape as their sex education as an eight-year-old child and you know
they call it the creation of a
sexual template right so it becomes like what is your sexuality about and what
is you know arousing to
you and if they grow up on this kind of content i mean it could do so much
damage to an entire generation
well especially i think it's our i think a lot of that's already happened i
think you've seen
like the a lot of the effects of pornography on um you know marriages like you
know people get addicted
to porn and then they're no longer um expressing attraction of their spouse and
uh because it's
being hijacked basically by this algorithm by the by the websites by this
addiction and then marriages
fall apart and then families fall apart yeah and another implication of this is
actually children
who are acting out on other children so we've seen um so i was just reading uh
the amicus should call
amicus briefs so these are briefs that uh were submitted to the supreme court
so as these states
across america are implementing age verification to protect kids from viewing
porn online um the porn sites
are not happy about this so porn hub and its um partners are suing those states
so for example
they sued the state of texas to not have to abide by this age verification law
and it's gone now
they've appealed it they lost they appealed now it's at the supreme court and
on january 15
the justice has actually heard oral arguments for whether or not we can have
states enacting age
verification to keep kids off porn sites so they're going to have a decision by
june but some of the
briefs submitted are so compelling and one of them was this nurse heidi olson
and she's a sexual
assault she's a pediatric sexual assault nurse and she was talking about her
experience with over 1500
cases of sexual assault that she had to document and assess and she saw that 50
percent of those cases
were children who were assaulting other children uh and the the number one um
the perpetrators in that
group were 14 year old males who were then assaulting females other females
yeah children and you're
saying that a lot you think and they're citing pornography as being the reason
why they're acting
out right because like you just that's how that's human nature like especially
with kids oh yeah you
see something you mimic it or you yeah i mean like my like son he's like you
know watch spider-man or
something and he's like jumping off the walls and you know pretending that he's
spider-man they're
acting out what they see right and so you know if they're watching porn and
they're watching
potentially actually watching sexual crime on these sites and they're you know
kind of acting out what
they see and so it's not surprising that that's happening right it's sick it's
literally being in a
spiral of sickness kind of i mean it's almost like what you would feel like
people would describe as
like some sort of a hell you know um one of the wildest things that happens on
porn sites is um
how they i don't know if this is targeted or what the goal is but you talk
about it ruining families
some of the videos are like uh stepson mom right dad son's girlfriend like that's
like you're putting
things into people's just even to yeah put that seed into somebody's psyche
people don't realize
or we don't realize that when we're watching something that's that we become we're
a sponge
right we might say oh i'm not really i'm watching this but i'm not it's just i'm
watching it for a
brief second i'm using it right but it's also whatever it is it's also using
you right it's everything
is in is a it's a back and forth relationship yeah so and teen was i mean one
of the most popular
categories on porn hub was teen um and teen right like teen could be 18 and 19
but it also is 13 and
14 and 15 and 16 and so many of that those videos are you know where they could
be someone who's of
age but they're intentionally made to look under age with the pigtails and the
flat chest and the braces
and the no no makeup and all of that and they're you mixed in with videos of
real teenagers who are
being abused and then this is being pushed right it's one of the they were you
know porn hub was tracking
down to the dollar how much they would make monthly on those teen categories um
on their
site and it was one of you know one of the most popular uh that they had and so
whatever is making the
most money you push that forward right and so maybe it's they're getting more
clicks because people are
like horrified by it or maybe you know i i don't know you know exactly what um
is happening there but
whatever it is that gets the most clicks and views they they'll push the
algorithm right will of course
push that forward but it's like why why i wonder how that even starts if they
say like mom son you
know i'm saying like where does something like that dement like that idea even
start well i think it's
so i've spoken to some porn producers who've talked to me about this and the
way that there's been like
a trajectory from like playboy into more and more kind of extreme forms of porn
in different situations
and they're saying like they're just told to create the most extreme thing you
can think of because
you you need more shock value there's this um idea of uh you know kind of desensitization
for people
where they want to kind of in order to get the same dopamine hit with porn it's
not necessarily that
you need more it's that you need different and you need something yeah more
extreme to kind of get that
same dopamine hit what does porn do to our brains do you have anything on that
trying to see just the
psychological effects new research sheds light on the global impact of
problematic pornography use
okay i'll look at this a little bit but after this i want something more about
the actual effects of
on our brain a comprehensive international study involving tens of thousands of
participants from
dozens of countries suggest that problematic pornography use might have a
prevalence rate as high as 16.6
so that's saying that 16.6 percent of people per this study have problematic
pornography use
problematic pornography use refers to a condition where individuals and
experience an uncontrollable
urge to consume pornography leading to significant distress or impairment in
their daily functioning
first most people use pornography but only a small group of them develop
problems with it
so we wanted to see how many people may experience such problems worldwide and
whether there are any
country gender or sexual orientation based differences as most previous studies
focused
on really specific populations i.e men from the united states i think one of
the most important
takeaway messages from our study is that problematic pornography use seems to
be as common
as other mental health issues i.e depression so we need to better understand
this problem and provide
appropriate care for people experiencing this this issue probably the most
surprising finding of the
study is that only four to ten percent of individuals with problematic
pornography sought help for this
issue with an additional 20 to 40 percent one wanting to but did not do so for
various help reasons
it's also um men young men are having kind of an epidemic of what they call
porn induced erectile dysfunction
oh yeah and yeah p-i-e-d where so there was a study in canada and it was the
journal of sexual medicine
and they had found a third of young men between 16 and 21 had issues with porn
induced erectile dysfunction
oh yeah buddy and they're young yeah well it's heartbreaking and then here's
that creates a ton of
shame and a lot of that's just nervous energy and then here's the thing if you
get used to watching porn
then you finally are in an instance with a woman or there is some sexual
activity or whatever it's so
foreign to whatever the part of your brain that watches a screen and the part
of your brain that
engages with someone or two i don't know this for a fact but to me it feels
like two totally different
parts one of them is very active and feels very visceral and real and one of
them feels very passive and uh
um transactional almost in a way like i'm going to give this my attention and i'm
going to get some reward out of it
but that's all this is whereas over here this is a field of communication and
connection
right so um so yeah i wanted to watch this right here watching pornography
this is a from neuroscience news watching pornography rewires the brain to a
more juvenile state that's interesting
um pornography has existed throughout recorded history i'd love to get someone
to come in and
talk about just the whole history of it um hundreds of at the bottom here we
have the impact okay in
the long term pornography seems to create sexual dysfunctions especially the
inability to achieve
erection or orgasm with a real life partner marital quality and commitment to
one's romantic partner also
appear to be compromised to try to explain these effects some scientists have
drawn parallels between porn
and substance abuse the through evolutionary design the brain is wired to
respond to sexual stimulation
with surges of dopamine so if you get sexually stimulated your brain gives
dopamine and that makes
sense because we're creatures that are supposed to reproduce right and have
attraction so this neurotransmitter
most often associated with reward anticipation also acts to program memories
and information into the brain
this adaption means that when the body requires something like food or sex the
brain remembers
where to return to experience the same pleasure instead of turning to a
romantic partner for sexual gratification
or fulfillment habituated porn users instinctively reach for their phones and
laptops when desire comes calling
furthermore unnaturally strong explosions of reward and pleasure evoke unnaturally
strong degrees of habituation in the brain
okay that's wild i could definitely see that yeah and then it's like and then
you feel ashamed you know
like what parent wants to go and talk to their son and wish him good night if
he's been master i'm sure
that's a weird thing you know i'm saying like i don't know what that's like but
i'm sure that there's
some shame there it's like yeah well that's where i think that one of the the
important things that we can
do is create like actually shame-free zones where kids like the kitchen or
whatever i don't know i mean
like your household right like oh i see what you're saying oh okay you know
like where you can feel
like you're in a relationship that is safe to talk about the things that you
would feel ashamed talking
about oh yeah you know because then you don't just stuff it down well that's
what recovery meetings
that's one thing that's why i think 12-step meetings are great because it's
like and if people are
wondering how do i get in those meetings there's slaa.org i think it's called
if you want to look
at that up nick and see um but yeah but you can also look up slaa online and
that's just you can
find meetings and then once you get into a meeting you can talk to people now
you're not a weirdo now
you get in a program you kind of get some things organized you create a
basically a set of principles
for yourself and then you have a new kind of design of for living but the kids
should be able to access
that i think i don't think it's good no kids is where you draw the line i think
it's really
alarming choose like they need to be able to get to adulthood before they
decide where they can make
that decision and also it's that prefrontal cortex of the brain where it's like
that decision making
center of the brain it's not even developed so they can't like oh reason is
this going to be good for
me or do i want to do this or what are the consequences of me you know and they
just don't have that yet and
so like they definitely need to be protected but once you're an adult you know
you can make decisions
like you should have the freedom to make whatever decisions you want and i i
take the position of
like what you know if it's it's consenting adult like that's their business
right and yeah i agree but
they'd also be we also have this like imagine if you opened your door and there
was a bunch of
porn there that's really what it's like it's like you know i mean the internet's
just our front porch now it's like yeah so you open your door and everything is
there everything is there and so if you as a parent or as a
um country kind of can't decide maybe what should and shouldn't be there sort
of and at a certain point you see enough proof
well 90 of this many this much percentage of people maybe get addicted to this
it ruins this many marriages hypothetic like at a certain point you might think
this isn't for our society
this just doesn't help society that much overall i'm not saying that i don't
know if that's true
but at least we can all i mean everybody can agree that like step one let's
just keep kids away from
accessing it and then you know because they will get a they will get that compulsive
porn use when they
oh yeah no doubt about that i think we get it yeah yeah yeah
Thank you.

Do We Know the Side Effects of Viewing P*rn at a Young Age?

what's especially alarming to me and you know it's what you experienced right
because you
when you were 13 years old when you were first exposed exposed to porn is that
children you know
are just en masse being exposed to not playboy right not the centerfold that
used to be but
the free porn tube sites because you know it's free they have access do you
guys know that
children are accessing those like is there is there statistics behind it oh
yeah i mean you know
i think you know one study from 2022 was saying that 75 percent of 13 to 17
year olds have viewed
internet porn i mean i think would probably be more than that and right every
kid has a device
you know there's five-year-olds that could click through the internet filters
are not doing a good
job and you know parents who you know may not even know how to implement
internet filters for their kids
even if they do you know they can't control all the time so they can't be at
school and you know
other places when they go to their friend's house or whatever it's just what
filters are they using
are you are they because they're the ones that you suggest kind of that people
use um i don't have any
particular brands that i would suggest but you know there's like so many
different apps that people
can install you can get like routers that could actually block the content at
the router level oh
that's awesome i didn't know that yeah and so there's stuff like that out there
but i know states
are stopping people from like a lot of states are pro you have to upload an id
now well there's like
this whole movement in the united states right now that is saying look we
understand that kids are
accessing this content and we want to protect kids from viewing and i call it
um a form of secondhand
sexual abuse right for kids to be witnessing this kind of content and from my
perspective i know how
much of this content isn't just hardcore right it's actually criminal right
where they could be watching
um a real rape as their sex education as an eight-year-old child and you know
they call it the creation of a
sexual template right so it becomes like what is your sexuality about and what
is you know arousing to
you and if they grow up on this kind of content i mean it could do so much
damage to an entire generation
well especially i think it's our i think a lot of that's already happened i
think you've seen
like the a lot of the effects of pornography on um you know marriages like you
know people get addicted
to porn and then they're no longer um expressing attraction of their spouse and
uh because it's
being hijacked basically by this algorithm by the by the websites by this
addiction and then marriages
fall apart and then families fall apart yeah and another implication of this is
actually children
who are acting out on other children so we've seen um so i was just reading uh
the amicus should call
amicus briefs so these are briefs that uh were submitted to the supreme court
so as these states
across america are implementing age verification to protect kids from viewing
porn online um the porn sites
are not happy about this so porn hub and its um partners are suing those states
so for example
they sued the state of texas to not have to abide by this age verification law
and it's gone now
they've appealed it they lost they appealed now it's at the supreme court and
on january 15
the justice has actually heard oral arguments for whether or not we can have
states enacting age
verification to keep kids off porn sites so they're going to have a decision by
june but some of the
briefs submitted are so compelling and one of them was this nurse heidi olson
and she's a sexual
assault she's a pediatric sexual assault nurse and she was talking about her
experience with over 1500
cases of sexual assault that she had to document and assess and she saw that 50
percent of those cases
were children who were assaulting other children uh and the the number one um
the perpetrators in that
group were 14 year old males who were then assaulting females other females
yeah children and you're
saying that a lot you think and they're citing pornography as being the reason
why they're acting
out right because like you just that's how that's human nature like especially
with kids oh yeah you
see something you mimic it or you yeah i mean like my like son he's like you
know watch spider-man or
something and he's like jumping off the walls and you know pretending that he's
spider-man they're
acting out what they see right and so you know if they're watching porn and
they're watching
potentially actually watching sexual crime on these sites and they're you know
kind of acting out what
they see and so it's not surprising that that's happening right it's sick it's
literally being in a
spiral of sickness kind of i mean it's almost like what you would feel like
people would describe as
like some sort of a hell you know um one of the wildest things that happens on
porn sites is um
how they i don't know if this is targeted or what the goal is but you talk
about it ruining families
some of the videos are like uh stepson mom right dad son's girlfriend like that's
like you're putting
things into people's just even to yeah put that seed into somebody's psyche
people don't realize
or we don't realize that when we're watching something that's that we become we're
a sponge
right we might say oh i'm not really i'm watching this but i'm not it's just i'm
watching it for a
brief second i'm using it right but it's also whatever it is it's also using
you right it's everything
is in is a it's a back and forth relationship yeah so and teen was i mean one
of the most popular
categories on porn hub was teen um and teen right like teen could be 18 and 19
but it also is 13 and
14 and 15 and 16 and so many of that those videos are you know where they could
be someone who's of
age but they're intentionally made to look under age with the pigtails and the
flat chest and the braces
and the no no makeup and all of that and they're you mixed in with videos of
real teenagers who are
being abused and then this is being pushed right it's one of the they were you
know porn hub was tracking
down to the dollar how much they would make monthly on those teen categories um
on their
site and it was one of you know one of the most popular uh that they had and so
whatever is making the
most money you push that forward right and so maybe it's they're getting more
clicks because people are
like horrified by it or maybe you know i i don't know you know exactly what um
is happening there but
whatever it is that gets the most clicks and views they they'll push the
algorithm right will of course
push that forward but it's like why why i wonder how that even starts if they
say like mom son you
know i'm saying like where does something like that dement like that idea even
start well i think it's
so i've spoken to some porn producers who've talked to me about this and the
way that there's been like
a trajectory from like playboy into more and more kind of extreme forms of porn
in different situations
and they're saying like they're just told to create the most extreme thing you
can think of because
you you need more shock value there's this um idea of uh you know kind of desensitization
for people
where they want to kind of in order to get the same dopamine hit with porn it's
not necessarily that
you need more it's that you need different and you need something yeah more
extreme to kind of get that
same dopamine hit what does porn do to our brains do you have anything on that
trying to see just the
psychological effects new research sheds light on the global impact of
problematic pornography use
okay i'll look at this a little bit but after this i want something more about
the actual effects of
on our brain a comprehensive international study involving tens of thousands of
participants from
dozens of countries suggest that problematic pornography use might have a
prevalence rate as high as 16.6
so that's saying that 16.6 percent of people per this study have problematic
pornography use
problematic pornography use refers to a condition where individuals and
experience an uncontrollable
urge to consume pornography leading to significant distress or impairment in
their daily functioning
first most people use pornography but only a small group of them develop
problems with it
so we wanted to see how many people may experience such problems worldwide and
whether there are any
country gender or sexual orientation based differences as most previous studies
focused
on really specific populations i.e men from the united states i think one of
the most important
takeaway messages from our study is that problematic pornography use seems to
be as common
as other mental health issues i.e depression so we need to better understand
this problem and provide
appropriate care for people experiencing this this issue probably the most
surprising finding of the
study is that only four to ten percent of individuals with problematic
pornography sought help for this
issue with an additional 20 to 40 percent one wanting to but did not do so for
various help reasons
it's also um men young men are having kind of an epidemic of what they call
porn induced erectile dysfunction
oh yeah and yeah p-i-e-d where so there was a study in canada and it was the
journal of sexual medicine
and they had found a third of young men between 16 and 21 had issues with porn
induced erectile dysfunction
oh yeah buddy and they're young yeah well it's heartbreaking and then here's
that creates a ton of
shame and a lot of that's just nervous energy and then here's the thing if you
get used to watching porn
then you finally are in an instance with a woman or there is some sexual
activity or whatever it's so
foreign to whatever the part of your brain that watches a screen and the part
of your brain that
engages with someone or two i don't know this for a fact but to me it feels
like two totally different
parts one of them is very active and feels very visceral and real and one of
them feels very passive and uh
um transactional almost in a way like i'm going to give this my attention and i'm
going to get some reward out of it
but that's all this is whereas over here this is a field of communication and
connection
right so um so yeah i wanted to watch this right here watching pornography
this is a from neuroscience news watching pornography rewires the brain to a
more juvenile state that's interesting
um pornography has existed throughout recorded history i'd love to get someone
to come in and
talk about just the whole history of it um hundreds of at the bottom here we
have the impact okay in
the long term pornography seems to create sexual dysfunctions especially the
inability to achieve
erection or orgasm with a real life partner marital quality and commitment to
one's romantic partner also
appear to be compromised to try to explain these effects some scientists have
drawn parallels between porn
and substance abuse the through evolutionary design the brain is wired to
respond to sexual stimulation
with surges of dopamine so if you get sexually stimulated your brain gives
dopamine and that makes
sense because we're creatures that are supposed to reproduce right and have
attraction so this neurotransmitter
most often associated with reward anticipation also acts to program memories
and information into the brain
this adaption means that when the body requires something like food or sex the
brain remembers
where to return to experience the same pleasure instead of turning to a
romantic partner for sexual gratification
or fulfillment habituated porn users instinctively reach for their phones and
laptops when desire comes calling
furthermore unnaturally strong explosions of reward and pleasure evoke unnaturally
strong degrees of habituation in the brain
okay that's wild i could definitely see that yeah and then it's like and then
you feel ashamed you know
like what parent want