A sex therapist has explained what she believes to be the main 'dangers' of pornography, while the UK government is launching a crackdown on it.
LADbible's 'For F**k's Sake' campaign found that 77 percent of Generation Z consume porn and there are people worried about exactly what's going on there.
52 percent of young women said they worried that porn reinforces sexual dominance among men and 36 percent feared that it reinforced violent or aggressive behaviour in the bedroom.
As such, the government is planning on banning erotic content which depicts strangulation or suffocation, with possession or publication of this content leading to prosecution.
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The simple fact of the matter is that most people watch porn, it's a fact of life that a majority of people are going to partake in it, but a sex therapist has warned that one of the main dangers of pornography is people taking what they see there and trying to apply it to their own bedrooms.
Sex and relationship therapist Charlene Douglas spoke to LADbible about people's experiences with sex and pornography, and when she was asked whether porn was dangerous she had a clear answer.
Douglas said: "I think if you don't know enough about sex and you think that by watching a particular scene in porn that that is real, that's what's supposed to happen, I think it can be quite dangerous.
"For example, situations where, I don't know, a woman has been gang banged by, you know, seven, 10 men. That could be a great sexual fantasy if you know about sex, you know your body, you know who you're choosing to be a part of this.
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"Consent, you know, is very much in in the mix there. You're having safe words and they know what the safe words are. So if you're in pain or feeling uncomfortable that you can say a safe word like 'Red' and they know to stop straight away."
However, she had words of warning for people who weren't 'having that level of conversation' and who might try a situation because they'd seen it in porn.
"You can put yourself in a really dangerous situation," the sex therapist warned as she made it clear that there were upsides to porn as long as the people viewing it understood what they were seeing.
"Equally, we know that porn can be a lot of fun, but I think that you have to take it for what it is, and that is entertainment."
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Women speaking to the 'For F**k's Sake' campaign said they were worried that porn had 'negatively impacted younger men' that were watching porn 'who think that's the way sex and relationships should be'.
Half of people who spoke to LADbible said porn was their first introduction to sex, half of men said it was their main source of sex education and 60 percent of people who watched porn on a daily basis said it had shaped their expectations of sex.
Two thirds said watching porn had changed what turns them on, while one in four Gen Zers say they've felt the need for their porn habits to move to more extreme depictions of sex over time.
It sounds like there are plenty of people who could do with listening to Charlene when she says porn is 'entertainment'.
Topics: Sex Education, Gen Z, Sex and Relationships, UK News, Politics
Joe Harker