The awareness of the harmfulness of pornography is indisputable, so we want our task to be the basis for an effective strategy to defend children from pornography in Poland," said Rafał Dorosiński, associate of the Board of the Ordo Iuris Institute, at a press conference organised by the Catholic Information Agency, devoted to the citizens' legislative initiative "Stop Pornography Drugs". The task aims to introduce effective solutions to verify the age of users of pornographic services, so as to limit access to minors as much as possible.
Marcin Perłowski called for everyone who is at the heart of the children to sign the task through the website: https://stopdrugowipornography.pl/ or joined the collection of signatures. associate of the Board of the Ordo Iuris Institute stressed that if the task goes to the Sejm, there is simply a good chance of implementing regulations to defend children from pornography.
– Not only Members representing the conservative wing declare interest in our project, but besides representatives of the Left and Poland 2050 – he assured. "Unfortunately, we inactive do not have adequate signatures for today," he acknowledged, calling for support for the initiative.
Dr. Rafał Lange introduced the state of consumption of pornographic content by children and young people. He explained that statistically there is no class in Polish primary school where no kid would be dependent on pornography. With the age of the child, this figure increases at further stages of education. – There are many children who watch pornography all day or even respective times a day – warned the cybersecurity specialist.
He stressed that in primary school 48% of children watch pornographic content at least erstwhile a week, while in secondary school this percent increases to 68%. “The limit of starting utilizing pornography is inactive decreasing. Nowadays, children have been utilizing specified content since around eighth grade, which frequently coincides with the minute erstwhile they receive the first smartphone. This origin importantly increases the probability of contact with pornography – he noted.
He besides added that more and more children are watching content containing violence. In primary school this is 20%, while in advanced school 30%. "The investigation I am referring to was carried out 3 years ago, and this trend unfortunately continues to develop, as the students themselves testify. statistic can be much higher, due to the fact that not everyone admits to utilizing pornography – he stressed.
Lidia Sankowska-Grabczuk stressed that, according to research, pornographic content is as harmful to children as hard drugs, especially due to the fact that it is highly easy available to them. As with another intoxicating agents, through advanced brain stimulation, over time young audiences must scope for always stronger content to accomplish the same effect.
A typical of the Coalition for Life and the household explained that pornographic content reaching children frequently contains utmost forms of sexual acts, are full of brutality, surrounded by force and humiliation, which mainly meets women. "This leads to sexualisation of the image of women and, as a result, to more frequent usage of force against them," she noted.
She stressed that 70% of teenagers believe that access to pornography is besides easy, and the same number declares that their first contact with specified content took place at school. Statistically, children first encounter pornography at the age of 11. "However, doctors point out that even eight-year-old children frequently conflict with problems resulting from dependence on pornography," she added.
Rafał Dorosiński stressed that awareness of the danger of access to pornography is constantly increasing, so in many countries there are already regulations to defend children from adult content. As an example, the manager of the Center for Life and household gave France, Britain, and any U.S. states. “The awareness of the harmfulness of pornography is indisputable, so we want our task to be the basis for an effective strategy to defend children from pornography in Poland”, he stressed.
He added that limiting access to pornography for minors supports 88% of the population. – It seems that politicians who respect the voice of Poles should undertake to introduce akin regulations. This is simply a subject that combines different environments more than divides – he assured.
He explained that the main nonsubjective of the task is to oblige providers of pornographic content to introduce effective verification of the age of the recipients, under the threat of imposing a severe penalty. The task itself does not specify the circumstantial tools to be utilized for verification, but it is intended to guarantee the protection of individual data of adults utilizing akin services. – Information about who enters a given page will not be able to go outside. We know that this can be done, as evidenced by solutions that work in another countries," he explained.
The citizens' draft law on the protection of minors from pornographic content and signature collection cards are available on the website Stop Narcotics Pornography.pl. For the task to scope the Sejm, 100,000 signatures are needed, which must be submitted by 23 December at the latest.
Source: KAI
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