I don't even understand the point of this. Either you're too young to even understand what porn is, or you're old enough to view it. There is, to me, no age where a minor is old enough to desire pornographic content but not old enough to not be scarred by it.
What are teenagers, a demographic with an insatiable appetite for sexual gratification, even supposed to do? My grandpa was probably wanking it to a Macy's catalogue as a teenager. Denying or trying to suppress it is not gonna have the outcomes people want.
So is tiktok. And sugar. And video games. And a thousand other things people are exposed to. I'm all for regulation of harmful and addictive substances and its exposure to children/adolescents, but porno is pretty low on the list of "things fucking up kids that need to be regulated"
Reading though your link, something felt... Wrong ?
That's not even remotely close to be a study, that's an opinion piece that threw everything at the wall, relied mostly on self-report studies, it used figures to show how sex-related things are everywhere but not to highlight their negative impact, and it seemingly also uses 40 year old data, and considering how much things have changed since then, I'm not quite sure that it is still relevant.
That's not to say I disagree with the idea that porn can have a negative effect, but using the least objective source you could have found is just...
The American College of Pediatricians are basically a fraud. It's a conservative abstinence/anti-LGTB advocacy group hoping you confuse it with the (legitimate) American Academy of Pediatrics.
A single one of the studies was from the 1980s. See the references.
But fair enough this was probably a poor source. There are dozens of papers that appear for any search on this.
Honestly, I'm surprised it's not just be intuitive. But maybe not. I've worked a lot with children in different circumstances, including in the foster system. Early sexual exposure causes issues.
What are teenagers, a demographic with an insatiable appetite for sexual gratification, even supposed to do? My grandpa was probably wanking it to a Macy's catalogue as a teenager. Denying or trying to suppress it is not gonna have the outcomes people want.