Gone are the days when countless teenager had their first experience of sexuality by stumble across an old Playboy magazine stuffed under the lounge . Pornography , even in its most graphic and extreme soma , is now just a few clicks away from anybody with a smartphone or a laptop .

New research from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has taken a look into this problem and found that the younger a male child is   when they are   first expose to porn , the more likely he is   to trust that men should dominate woman .

“ We expect that the new the boys were when first expose to pornography , the more likely they were to adopt man-about-town norms as well as average of masculine power over women , ” researcher Alyssa Bischmann said in astatement .

Weirdly that was not the case . The older the boy was , the more likely he was to have playboy attitudes of   heightened sexuality and pastime in multiple intimate married person , or what the researchers call “ playboy norm ” .

“ There ’s not been a lot research into masculinity and pornography , " said atomic number 27 - source   Chrissy Richardson . " We   do n’t have a lot of possibility that would explicate this unexpected inverse relationship between erotica use and playboy norms . "

The team revealedtheir findingsthis week at the American Psychological Association conference in Washington , DC . Their study appraise 330 men , elderly 17 to 54 , about their views on women , sexuality , and their personal experience with pornography .

On average , the the great unwashed in the survey first know pornography when they were 13 . The youngest was just 5   years old and the oldest was 26 . For   around 43 percent , the first clock time they saw it was by accident , while 33 pct said they sought it out and 17 percent said they were forced into viewing it by someone else . The stay 6 per centum did not answer .

During their intro , the psychologists said former studies have show up that up to 87 percentof young grownup serviceman follow pornography , around one-half of which   learn it at least once a week .

So what ’s the solution to all this ? Few would argue they know the answer . The UK latterly passed the Digital Economy Bill that   imposes stricterage verifications for online pornographyand salary - per - view TV pornography . The politicians behind the invoice claimed it was “ to make the net safer , ” although some commentators conceive this harks back to a “ draconian eraof ban . "

Whatever your personal judgement is on the matter , many research worker   indicate   thatmore cogitation is   crucialif we want to understand the legion problem regarding public health and   society . After all , porn hasbeen around for thousands of yearsand it certainly is n’t going anywhere anytime soon .