Children's Easy Access to Hardcore Internet Pornography - Donna Rice Hughes, PornHarms.com briefing

http://PornHarms.com event presentation by Donna Rice Hughes, President of Enough is Enough, http://enough.org , Internet safety expert & advocate of efforts to protect children from Internet pornography. http://www.internetsafety101.org
WHAT CONGRESS CAN DO TO ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS:
"It is a great honor to address you this morning and to be part of this distinguished panel of experts to discuss The War on Illegal "Adult" Pornography, known under the law as obscenity[1]. In layman's terms, obscenity is graphic material that focuses on sex and/or sexual violence. It includes close-ups of graphic sex acts, lewd exhibition of the genitals, and deviant activities such as group sex, bestiality, incest and excretory functions. For clarification, obscenity is not to be confused with soft-core pornography, known under the law as harmful to minors/indecent content. This material is protected under the constitution for adults, yet not for children in print and broadcast. Such laws have not successfully been upheld by the Supreme Court to protect minor children online. Nor is obscenity to be confused with child pornography, which is illegal.
Because obscenity laws have not been enforced, illegal "adult" pornography has flooded and polluted the Internet. It continues to grow and spread and has reached epidemic proportions. As you will hear today, we are indeed facing a national crisis that is every bit as damaging to our citizens and our cultural environment as the oil spill catastrophe is to the environment in the Gulf.
For fifteen years, children have been spoon-fed a steady diet of pornography. Kids can easily access a wide variety of free pornography in the privacy of their home or through any Internet-enabled device. "Portable porn" via PDAs, mobile phones, gaming devices and laptops now provide kids, as well as adults, "anywhere access" to this drug of the new millennium.
Statistics show that 7 in 10 kids have accidentally accessed pornography[2] and 1 in 3 youth who viewed pornography viewed it intentionally[3]. Internet pornographers are great innovators and use clever and deceptive marketing tactics to push their drug to anyone and everyone. The majority of porn sites have free teaser images and videos on their home pages and do not require any age verification. The content on this XXX site contains graphic sex acts and lewd exhibition of the genitals. For the purposes of this presentation, we have blurred the images on the slides I will be showing you.
40% of kids accidentally access pornography through innocent word searches[4]. What do you think of when you hear the term, "watersports'? Here you see a captured screen of "watersports" which is explicit urination pornography with women being treated as toilets.
12% of kids accidently see pornography through misspelling a word[5]. Boys.com is a wholesome site for boys. Boyz misspelled, however is a hard-core porn site. This is the homepage for boyz.com, which
contains graphic close-ups of homosexual acts. As you can see, many porn sites also contain pornography advertised as "teen sex" or "barely legal".
Pornographers also misuse popular cartoons. Children can easily stumble upon "DisneyPornland" where they can see their favorite Disney characters engaging in graphic sex acts.
Of course, kids can always easily find pornography intentionally. This next slide is a captured screen from a Google search on bestiality. This search yielded over 2,550,000 results. Kids can see men and women engaging in sex acts with any animal on Noah's ark.
The average age of first exposure is 11 years old,[6] with some researchers saying first exposure is as young as 8 years old. 79% of unwanted exposure is occurring in the home[7]. Parents, who should be the first line of defense, are forced to be the ONLY line of defense to shoulder the entire burden of protecting their children from prosecutable obscenity. This is unprecedented.
Does pornography harm children? Yes it does. Pornography is not just harmless fun. I am now going to show you a short excerpt from our Internet Safety 101 DVD teaching series where you will hear from teenagers who share the damage that pornography has had on their lives.
We have sacrificed an entire generation's innocence on the altar of a misperception that prosecutable "adult" pornography is protected under the First Amendment. It is NOT. How many kids and how many more generations will be destroyed by the unintended consequences of our inaction to keep kids safe from this toxic drug? No child is immune.
We cannot undo the extensive damage already done, which you will learn more about today. But we can continue doing what we have been doing all along. Cry out "Enough Is Enough"! Today we are calling on Congress and the Department of Justice to ensure that the aggressive prosecution of our current obscenity laws is a priority. Our children's innocence is worth fighting for. Thank you."

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[Cindercheth]

@nikitty020 Then a child learns about SEX! "OH NOES!"

A child learns THE TRUTH.

You know... I knew about sex LONG before my mom knew I knew, and I had NO access to pornography.

Heck, when I grew up, our crowning achievement in computing was macintosh, and comodore, and PONG.

So I had no internet. I still knew what my penis did... and because I had a parent like YOU, that got me into trouble.

[namasayasendiri]

Not every Stupid People Addicted to Porn, But every Porn People is stupid

[aaronrocs]

Don't like her closing statement at all. "We have sacrificed an entire generation..." give me a break, on the whole I think we're doing okay. I don't know anybody "lost to porn" like I do with drugs. I had one friend that used to jerk off ALL the time it was disgusting his house was full of jizz rags everywhere and I spent the night at his house one time and all he wanted to do was watch porn all night long...I was pretty creeped out. I'm sure he's grown up since those days (at least I hope so).

[AuburnPivot]

You do realize parents can put a BLOCK on their computer to keep their children from viewing porn and illegal content.

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[Medicaire]

Children need easier access if anything.

[vglgvn534912]

How dare I get off to the weird shit! I should be thrown in jail! No better yet, give me the electric chair! That'll teach me to jerk of to things you think are weird!

[xZacharyGreenex]

This is just sad...

[SneakyThew]

i happen to love porn

[Cindercheth]

@nikitty020 Meanwhile... if you did your bloody job, as a parent, and taught them about sex, and THE REALITY ASSOCIATED WITH IT... I suspect the world would be a less screwed up place to live in.

[nikitty020]

@Hippiemouse1 well did you mother WORK for a living? many parents work all the time and cannot watch everything their children do and you know what, if porn and other obscenities weren't around they wouldn't have to! parents do have an obligation to watch kids but porn clearly makes their job MUCH harder. if you have half a brian you'd realize that! stop blaming parents for what perverts carelessly make available to children! you have no respect for anyone including yourselves. shame...