As we continue with our global experiment in which tens of millions of children are exposed to digital hardcore porn on a regular basis while governments do virtually nothing to protect them, the consequences become more apparent with each passing year. We now know that sustained digital pornography use physically changes the brain; we know that pornography is incredibly addictive; we know that pornography shapes and deforms sexuality, leading to a generation primarily weaned on online sexual violence.
Last month, I covered the story of the Children’s Commissioner of England, Dame Rachel de Souza, warning that children as young as 12 were engaging in sexual activity that included choking due to what they were viewing in pornography, which has become increasingly normal for children to see. This month, teacher Wendy Exton recently made a speech to the U.K.’s trade union for teachers, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT). Two of her former students, she noted, had recently been convicted of domestic violence — and those same students had been abusive to teachers.
“The threats of sexual assault are becoming increasingly common due to the abuse of online porn, COVID lockdown and their inability to understand acceptable and appropriate behavior,” Exton stated. “How are we preparing them to move into healthy, respectful relationships if we allow them to treat teachers or figures in authority in this way? It is not part and parcel of the job, and we need to do everything to eradicate this … As we know, once you allow violent incidents to go unpunished, they spread like wildfire through the school, and it becomes a bravado.”
Exton’s speech was buttressed by a recent NASUWT poll of 8,466 teachers from March that, according to the Times of London, revealed that 13% of teachers had been physically assaulted by a student within the last 12 months, with teachers detailing being bitten, kicked, threatened with rape or murder, and having students take photos up their skirts.”
