We look foolish in the face of the reality of an increasingly unprotected childhood against pornography in the name of sexual freedom and the autonomy of the minor.
We are facing an unprecedented situation of neglect towards the education of our sons and daughters. Not even in the Greco-Roman era The most perverse forms of abuse against children, which we are witnessing today, occurred in the past. Social Networks and the Internet They are the main facilitators of this worrying situation. Neither parents nor teachers have the necessary tools to combat the pornography that is damaging the developing minds of our children.
The most powerful will be the one who manages to make us dependent on our most basic instincts, while the powerful rationally manage their own.
In inquiries of child and adolescent mental health They are increasingly confronted with psychopathological situations resulting from the hypersexualization of children in the early childhood stage: touching, fellatio, imitation of sexual acts among five- and six-year-old boys and girls are not strange or isolated episodes.
We might wonder about the psychological impact that these kinds of images and videos could have on the brain of an eight-year-old girl. Some may downplay the consequences. this real factLet those who are scandalized bury their heads in the sand and refuse to acknowledge it. The reality is that controlling these activities is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Behind these websites lie billions of euros that enrich powerful lobbies of unscrupulous individuals. Ideological currents conceal, if not actively encourage, this kind of access with the aim of reducing sexuality to the status of an instinct that should not be repressed, regardless of age and, therefore, a child's emotional and cognitive capacity to make a reasonable judgment about the consequences.
Of course! Everyone, supposedly, is outraged; they propose educating children as early as possible, mistakenly believing that simply educating them at such young ages will provide them with the cognitive and emotional tools to prevent and protect themselves. They forget that childhood curiosity is far more powerful than the danger of such early exposure to pornographic scenes where disrespect for women, aggression and violence, incest, bestiality, and intergenerational relationships take precedence over any other consideration.
There are increasing cases of children aged 7 to 8 and older where such early exposure to pornography produces real emotional traumas almost comparable to the symptoms of a posttraumatic stress.
- Sudden changes in behavior: irritability, oppositional behavior, lying, isolation…
- Emotional changes: expansive mood or sadness, unexplained crying, unstable mood reactions. Anxiety.
- Obsessions related to sex that lead them to an almost stereotypical activity related to the search for pornographic information; monothematic discourse that, on occasion, produces the rejection of the peers and that leaves them exposed to a wide variety of psychosocial risks: abuse and sexual assaults by peers or adults.
- Psychofunctional disturbances: sleep disturbance, appetite disturbance, headaches….
- Victims of bullying or bullies. School failure and maladjustment.
¿Qué se puede hacer?
At this point, very little. I may sound overly pessimistic, but it would take a radical change in the sexual moral paradigm which is currently predominant in our society and that change, today, only has opponents.
Children have uncontrolled access to the internet and social media. This type of activity has become so pervasive that it has even permeated families and schools.
The pressures in favor of the hypersexualization of children are far more powerful than the rationality and common sense that attempt to regulate it. It is useless that an increasing number of studies inform us of the serious consequences for children's socio-emotional development. It is useless to propose restricted access to pornography for our children, because there are well-organized powers that actively oppose such regulation in the name of freedom. Some even speak of "autonomy of the minor"Forgetting that "autonomy" without the emotional and cognitive capacity to manage it is not autonomy, is not freedom, is not rights, but a true form of slavery.
The most powerful will be the one who manages to make us dependent on our most basic instincts, while the powerful rationally manage their own.
