Already a subscriber?In 1989 when Britain’s Tavistock Clinic opened its Gender Identity Service it treated fewer than 10 people each year. Most were males with a long history of what Dr Hilary Cass incalls “gender-related distress”. By 2009, it treated 15 adolescent girls and in 2016, that figure had increased to 1071.
I first wrote about the danger of a generation of young people growing up with a smorgasbord of violent internet porn at their fingertips over a decade ago in a magazine cover story called “Generation XXX”. I spoke to teens who, having learnt about sex from porn, were enacting on each other what had until then been non-mainstream acts. I was no nun as a young woman – but no boy ever tried to choke me or bruise me during sex. Nor was anal sex anywhere on the menu.
Girls today are becoming women in the most hyper-sexualised culture ever. They are exposed to “gross-out” porn on boys’ phones, and are seen through a lens where “hotness” of the porny,Some girls play along – there is a frightening increase in porn-style lip-fillers among young women and to see a crew of girls dressed up for a night out has even the most liberal parent begging them to wear a coat. Porn style is now mainstream.
I was struck in one school I talked at by a conversation I had with the kids afterwards. I ended up surrounded by a group of gay and non-binary students who were talking about how porn was a problem for their cis-gendered classmates because they thought that was the kind of sex they were supposed to be having and many of the girls found the prospect scary.
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