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Washington D.C. - A UN agency is again immersed in controversy for a recent report suggesting there is
no conclusive evidence that children exposed to pornography are harmed.The
report published by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) addresses how government policy can be used to protect children from harmful, abusive and violent content online. Its conclusion is based on a European study of 19 EU countries that found in most countries, most children who saw pornographic images were "neither upset nor happy." In fact, the report UNICEF relies on, says 39 percent of Spanish children were happy after seeing pornography.
Porn fighters disagree with the UNICEF data.
"UNICEF's report ignores the vast body of research demonstrating the harms of pornography to children. By ignoring the real harms pornography can have, UNICEF is playing roulette with children's health and safety," said Lisa Thompson, vice president and director of the Research Institute at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
Thompson's organization, which provides expert research to inform policy decisions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of women and children, has found that pornography can be a central driver of this abuse.
"Mainstream pornography contains horrific sexual abuse, rape, incest, racism - all of which children should not consume," continued Thompson, and "UNICEF's milquetoast assessment of the impacts hardcore pornography on children does nothing to challenge the political narrative that pornography is benign, and as a result, puts children in harm's way."
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