You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone, and welcome back on today's episode.

We will be discussing teenagers and pornography.

My name is Ashley Parrish. I'm your host. I'm joined by my co-host Jessica Pfeiffer. Hi there. And Dr. Ken Wilkes.

Hi, kids. Today's episode will be for mature audiences. I just want to put a warning out there.

So if you have little ones in earshot, please pause this and listen to it when you're on your own.

So, Ashley, I started to research this topic, pornography, in anticipation of recording this episode.

And I was super careful, of course, in my search bar as to what I was looking up.

But I found in my searching that most searched

for term on the internet is sex and that 12 to 17 year olds are the largest group of internet

porn users. It said that 49% of young people have seen porn before the age of 13, and that 64% of 13 to 24-year-olds

view porn at least weekly. And I don't know about you, Ashley, but it freaked me out. And my first

inclination is to lock everything down tight with my kids. How about you? I mean, when you hear

these things. It makes my stomach.

Yeah, it makes my stomach sink.

And that is one thing that really ignites fear.

And my parenting is pornography, if I'm being honest.

And especially you reading these stats, when you say 12 to 17 years old,

because I have, you know, I have a son

that's reaching those ages. And so, it just, all of the emotions, I feel like, Dr. Ken,

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