10 Shocking Stats About Teens and Pornography

 Friday, April 10, 2015 | Written by Matt Fradd

No matter how you slice it, it seems teens are using porn at startling rates today. Not surprising, since nearly a third of teens are walking around with an X-rated theater in their pockets—i.e. a smartphone. And now psychologists, even those who don’t have moral axe to grind with porn, are concerned about the kind of sexual education porn is giving kids and how it is harming their brains.
Here are 10 of some of the most alarming statistics we could find.

• 9 out of 10 boys and 6 out of 10 girls are exposed to pornography online before the age of 18.
• The first exposure to pornography among boys is 12 years old, on average.
• 83% of boys and 57% of girls are exposed to group sex online.
• 69% of boys and 55% of girls are exposed to same-sex intercourse online.
• 32% of boys and 18% of girls are exposed to bestiality online.
• 15% of boys and 9% of girls have seen child pornography online.
• 71% of teens have done something to hide their online activity from their parents.
• 28% of 16-17-year-olds have unintentionally been exposed to pornography online.
• 20% of 16-year-olds and 30% of 17-year-olds have received a sext.
• 39% of boys and 23% of girls have seen sexual bondage online.

(Get all the references for these by downloading out complete packet of pornography statistics.)
As parents, we have to prepare our kids for our sexualized culture and pornography specifically. If we don’t prepare them, who will?

About the author, Matt Fradd

Matt Fradd is the author of Delivered: True Stories of Men and Woman Who Turned from Porn to Purity. After experiencing a profound conversion at World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, Matt has worked through full-time lay ministry in Australia, Ireland, Canada, and Texas. He has served as an apologist for Catholic Answers and has traveled all over the world, speaking to tens of thousands of teens and young adults. He and his wife Cameron have four children and live in North Georgia.