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South African children’s porn addiction crisis

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Children’s exposure to porn is happening a lot earlier than most people think. Photo: Gallo Images
Children’s exposure to porn is happening a lot earlier than most people think. Photo: Gallo Images

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More than half of young South African children are regularly watching pornography, with at least 10% of them watching it every day.

These are the findings of a study by Unisa’s Bureau for Market Research’s Youth Research Unit (BMR unit), which has warned that some of the most shocking things that emerged from the research is that 35% of the children watch child pornography and 30% watch violent pornography. Nearly 65% also watch pornography between a man and a woman. They don’t really care that child pornography is illegal.

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