Honest question - when were you "coming up" and are you sure it didn't do anyone any harm then?

I'm mid-late 40s and the internet was not really there when I was growing up. Someone ten years younger than me would have much more porn available to them, easily, in the home during their formative years. But even since then it's likely become more pervasive and present by an order of magnitude, and people have connected devices with them all the time in a way they wouldn't have back then.

We also have lots of academics saying that porn is changing attitudes to sex and what is acceptable behaviour (the rise of choking, for instance).

So it seems reasonable to ask the question, not whether today's kids are vulnerable to harms we weren't vulnerable to, but have things changed significantly in the intervening years?

Note - I'm not defending the clusterfuck that is the OSA. But the world is not always as it was.

No, thats totally fair.

I’m 35 now, so in the 00’s I had my entire pre-teen and teenage years.

My brother and sisters are 26, 28 and 33- we aren’t worse than our parents (we have 3 different mothers between us) or grandparents from a mental health or moral perspective; and we were all exposed to liveleak and 4chan in various ways.

I’m not sure how else to measure to he honest with you.