Does Watching Porn at a Young Age Affect Mental Health? What New Research Really Says<br/> (opens in new tab)

Every few years social science rediscovers sex and reacts like a Victorian aunt who has found cocaine in the marmalade. This is one of those years. A recent study in Computers in Human Behaviorhas been making the rounds beneath a familiar apocalyptic premise: start watching pornography young, and later psychological trouble may follow. That is not quite what the study found. And thank heavens. Because what the research actually suggests is more subtle, more contested, and far more interesting...