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for first time porn viewing

turned out to be 14 years old.

But that doesn't give

the whole picture.

Just over 60% of those

who answered the question

told us they were

14 years old or younger

the first time

they saw pornography online.

Nearly a quarter were 12 or younger.

And 7% said they were

10 years old or younger.

Having seen

how easily accessible it is,

I shouldn't be surprised by

the fact that 7% of our respondents

were 10 or younger

when they first came across porn,

but I am. I'm still horrified.

As a grown woman,

I'm horrified seeing these images.

I can't imagine seeing that

through the eyes of a child.

Our survey also asked young people

why they look for porn.

Perhaps not surprisingly,

the most common reason given

was that men and women

use it for sexual stimulation

or as an aid to masturbation.

However, around 10%

of the 1,000 young people

said that, while men look

at porn for sexual pleasure,

young women do so

in order to learn about sex.

As one young woman put it, "women

for education, men for arousal".

And that worries me. Because if

they're turning to porn to learn,

how much of what they're seeing

is a true reflection

of what sex is really like?

I'm going to meet a woman

who should know.

She describes herself as

Britain's highest paid porn star.

Hello. Hi. How are you?

I'm good, thank you.

I'm Jameela. Nice to meet you.

How's things? Good, thank you.

Gemma Massey appeared

in more than 20 porn films

over a two year period,

but she's now left the industry.

THEY LAUGH:

Oh, my God!

Your shoes have a bedroom! I know!

This is amazing! A whole bedroom

just for my clothes and shoes.

That's a weapon! That's not at shoe!

LAUGHTER:

'Although Gemma stopped

working in porn two years ago,

'her films are on the web for ever.'

MOANING ON VIDEO

Would you ever go back

into porn? No.

Why? Cos no-one would else would

pay me that sort of money to do it

and I would never do it

for the standard going rate.

What is the standard going rate?

300 quid.

For what, what would you do

for 300 quid? For a scene.

How long does a scene take? Er...

Some companies, 12 hour days.

Some girls may need money and think,

"I'll do anal,

cos I'll get a bit more,"

and they're not doing it

cos they want to do it,

they're doing it cos they need to do

it, cos they need money or whatever.

Then, that's when I'd be like, "No."

I don't want to end up how

some of the girls have ended up.

What have they ended up like?

Mad in the head. In what way?

You know, some might have to

take drugs to then do the job,

which, again,

I would never want to do that.

So they can be, like,

in another place? Yeah.

What I want to know is do you think

that porn reflects real sex? No.

Why? And I think people need

to understand that it's not real.

It's...it's not how I would

have sex at home at all.

'Although Gemma wants people to

understand that porn isn't real,

'I'm not sure

she's faced up to the reality

'of how young

a lot of her audience is.'

How do you feel about the fact

that 11-year-olds now

are watching your films?

I know, that is quite disturbing

that it's getting

younger and younger. Um...

They can't really stop it, can they?

What do your family

think about the porn?

My mum and dad wasn't too happy

about it when I told them,

like most parents, I suppose.

What parent would want to see

their daughter doing porn?

It's kind of one of those ones.

It's not the most normal...

So you do recognise it's... Oh,

yeah, I know that it's not normal.

That's why I want to get out of it

and do something different, because,

if I was to stay in that industry

and carry on,

mentally it's just going

to mess you up in the head,

doing that all the time.

You can't do porn for ever.

'That wasn't what I expected.

I've never met a porn star.'

So I thought I was

going to come in here

and she was going to be a dominatrix

and be really fierce and sassy,

'the way that she's portrayed

in films and online.

'She was nothing like that.

She's really sweet.'

There's some pictures of when I was

younger, going from four boob jobs.

'There's something about her that's

almost just not completely there.

'She's lovely, she's adorable,'

but she's just almost like in

a fantasy world of thinking it's OK

and that's the same fantasy I feel

kids have when they're watching it.

When we talk about young people

seeing porn online,

it's often assumed

they're looking for it.

But our nationwide survey showed

this isn't always the case.

Of the hundreds of young people

who took part, only 22%

were looking for it on purpose

the first time they saw porn online.

The rest saw it accidentally

or were shown it by someone else.

And in their day-to-day lives,

young people just continue to be

bombarded with pornographic images.

Nearly a quarter said

that they see porn online

when they don't expect to

at least once a week.

Some of the most commonly

reported ways were

when they're searching

for something else online.

Someone said that,

"I click on a game or website

"which says it's something else,

but then it's porn,"

so there's no escaping it.

'And these days, you don't even have

to visit an explicit site

'to see pornographic images.'

We've got six new entries and

four re-entries, including tracks

from Pharrell Williams,

James Arthur and Mariah Carey.

'Sexual images are everywhere -

in adverts, magazines,

'and, more than ever,

in music videos.'

And this at number 26 is Miley Cyrus

and that big old Wrecking Ball.

# I came in like

a wrecking ball... #

Music stars,

like Miley Cyrus, Kanye West,

Rihanna and Robin Thicke,

are often singled out for criticism,

accused of using pornographic images

and editing techniques

in their videos.

But it's grime artist Skepta

who's taken the sexual imagery in

music videos to a whole new level.

# We were chilling

then we had sex... #

The video for his single

All Over the House

features him singing as two

porn actors have explicit sex.

This is a hardcore porn film

labelled as a music video.

'In fact, with close ups

of genitals,

'the images are SO explicit,

we can't even show them.'

So talk me through the decision

to use a porno as a music video.

I always think to try and do

something what nobody else has done.

I didn't think too much about it

or how big it would be or whatever.

I just did it. I never tweeted that

video once. I never spoke about it.

I never did anything...

Yeah, but it's the internet.

Right, so it found

its way back to me.

I just didn't want to promote it.

I know that I have young fans...

Mm-hm. ..that follow me on Twitter,

so for me to put that on there,

it is a stupid thing for me to do, so

I kind of left it for people to find.

So if people find it...

But it's so easy to find.

Literally, you Google it,

if I even write in "Skepta",

the first thing that comes up is

All Over The House, then they say

you have to be 18-plus to watch it,

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