STATISTICS

DID YOU KNOW?

Among Ottawa County
8th, 10th, & 12th graders surveyed:

Half of 8th graders reported, “Parents or other adults in my family have talked with me about what they expect when it
comes to sex.”(1)
Of the students who reported having HAD sex, 39% did so
before age 15 and 88% before age 17.(1)
Half of students admitted to seeing or accessing internet pornography; of those, 45% were first exposed before
age 14.(1)
87% of teens think students in their grade have seen or accessed internet pornography in the past 30 days.(1)

(1) Ottawa County 2021 Youth Assessment Survey

The Public Health Crisis

of the Digital Age(2)… PORNOGRAPHY

The biggest increase (8%) in students sharing their own self-generated sexting material occurred among ages 9-12, rising to 14% according to a U.S. study.(3)
One in five 9-12 year olds and one in three 13-17 year olds agreed it is normal for kids their age to share their personal sexual images.(3)
84% of teenage boys and 57% of teenage girls reported that they had viewed pornography.(4)
Approximately 45% of teens who consumed porn did so in part to learn about sex.(5)
A 2016 survey of children aged 11-16 shows that over half of the boys (53%) and over a third of the girls (39%) believed that porn was a realistic depiction of sex.(4)

(3) Thorn U.S. 2020 Self-Generated-Child Sexual Abuse Material Study

(4) Fight The New Drug, How Porn Can Distort the Consumers’ Understanding of Healthy Sex

(5) British Board of Film Classification. (2020). Young people, pornography & age-verification. BBFC