Porn: What's the Harm?

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This programme contains

some scenes of a sexual nature

Pornography is everywhere, and

with smartphones and tablets making

it easier than ever to get hold of,

there are fears that each generation

is seeing porn earlier

than the one before.

How old were you

when this happened? Eight.

You were eight?!

So how much porn do kids REALLY see?

I haven't even

had to prove my age yet

and some of the most

explicit images I have...

EVER seen are on this website.

And what does that mean

for a generation

that always has porn

at their fingertips?

I've seen some pretty scary

stuff on the internet.

To us, it's just normal, because

we've seen it that many times.

To discover the truth about kids and

porn, we've done an exclusive survey

with over 1,000 teens giving it to

us straight about what they've seen.

Who watches porn?

Me. Me. I'm not going to lie, innit?

Yeah. All of us do. Yeah.

And how it makes them feel.

It sort of makes you feel

a bit embarrassed, er,

because I don't want

to look at stuff like that.

I'll meet the people behind some

of what the kids are watching...

I think people need to understand

that, that it's not real. It's...

It's not how I would have sex

at home at all.

..and find out if they're

worried about who's watching.

GASPS:
Aw!

'I definitely wouldn't change it.'

I'd do it again, if I could

go back in time to do it.

And as I hear about the effect

some say porn has had on them...

For him to just think that...

that I was an object

that he could use seemed

so similar to the images that I saw.

..I'll discover whether teaching

kids about porn is the answer

and, if so, at what age

should that start?

When we said

we were going to school,

I didn't know it would be primary.

I mean, these are kids

who are sort of 10 and under.

My name's Jameela Jamil.

I'm a writer,

a presenter and a DJ

and, every week, I host

the Radio 1 Official Chart.

Last week, I announced that

Calvin Harris, Alleso and Hurts

topped the official chart.

MUSIC:
"Feel So Close"

by Calvin Harris

I've been working in the music

industry since I was 19,

and I'm in touch

with thousands of teenagers

through my blog and on Twitter.

So, although I'm now in my twenties,

I still like to think

I know what's going on.

But it seems there's one area

where I don't know quite as much

as I thought I did.

I think the first time

young people see porn,

they're probably around 12, 13,

like going into the first and

second years of high school.

I don't really watch it,

but my friends tell me some of it is

really disturbing and they might...

Like, say if they wanted

to try it out and...

I don't think that'd be good.

My mum can't even access the

computer and if she knew how to

and if she went on the sites

which young people were looking at,

she'd just be horrified. Cos it is,

in my mind, it's disgusting.

When it comes to

sex and relationships,

I'm pretty open minded. And

although I don't use porn myself,

I know a lot of adults who do and

I don't have a problem with that.

But like most people,

I've seen all the scare stories

about how much young kids

now watch it too.

So I want to know if that's true

and if we really do have a

generation growing up watching porn.

I remember I was 15 the first time

I ever came across proper

pornography, because it was

at a time really before

the internet was as huge as it is.

I was at a friend's house

and they were watching it,

and I had a little look and

I'm not going to get too graphic,

but the things that I saw done

with a cucumber and a woman

genuinely made me

not eat a salad for 12 years.

That was in 2002 and, to be honest,

I haven't really seen

much porn since.

But today's 15-year-olds

have grown up in

an age of smartphones and tablets,

and it's reckoned that

a quarter of 9 to 16-year-olds

will have seen porn

in the last 12 months.

So what exactly is pornography?

Legally, it's defined

as an image that's

"assumed to have been

produced solely or principally

"for the purpose of sexual arousal"

I've genuinely never searched for

porn before, but I'm now so curious

to see what it is that young people

are seeing out there

and, more so, how easy it is

to actually access.

So OK, I'm just going

to type in the word porn...

I know this seems really basic,

but I'm just going to type in

the word porn into a search engine

and just see what happens.

OK...porn.

There are 436 million results

in 28 seconds,

so just an abundance

of free porn sites have come up.

So I'll click on the first one.

OK, I haven't even had

to prove my age yet

and some of the most

explicit images I have...

EVER seen are on this website.

There's a lot of use

of the words "teen slut".

It's just...

It's lot of really...

SHE SIGHS:

..sort of distressing

images of women

looking like they're

in quite a lot of pain.

Just performing these

unbelievably explicit sex acts.

They all look really young.

I'm not even a parent yet

and I'm already terrified

of the idea of having children

knowing what's out there.

I completely get why people

would be concerned

about their children going on the

internet. This is unbelievable!

'But easy access to porn is

'something that ordinary families

have to deal with every day.'

Hi. Hi. I'm Jameela. Nice to meet

you. Nice to meet you. Do come in.

Alison and her husband James

have two sons -

Cameron, aged 10,

and 18-year-old Brandon.

It's only an eight-year age gap,

but in terms of access to porn,

these boys might as well

come from different worlds.

When Brandon was ten,

he'd have been playing on

a little games console. No wi-fi,

no internet. I don't even think we

had a computer when Brandon was 10.

Certainly no smartphones.

So there wasn't...

We were still doing the thing of

"Don't walk backwards up the slide,

cos you'll bump yourself."

How young do you think it is

that young people can start

watching pornography or do start

coming across at least pornography,

even if it's accidental?

I would've said about 8, 10.

We actually had an incident here

where Cameron was upstairs

and we only found out by chance,

because of the phone bill.

And one of his friends

had gone upstairs

and put the porn channel on.

'I'm intrigued by this revelation,

'so I decide to have a little chat

with ten-year-old Cameron.'

My friend came over to my house

one time, we put on my TV,

and he said,

"Put this porn channel on."

And he rang the porn channel up

and it cost money.

How old were you when this happened?

Er, eight.

You were eight?! And your friend

knew about the porn channel,

what it was and how

to get onto it? Yeah.

So after your friend had

shown you the pornography,

how did it come about,

like how where you able

to talk about it?

What happened next? Um...

I went downstairs feeling confused.

I didn't tell my mum, but...

How come? Um...

I didn't feel safe about it,

I didn't know what it was,

so I didn't feel right

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