Pornography And The Harm It Does To Our Children

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. What us today is Lynn Shaw with Lynn’s Warriors. And Lynn, I mean I heard you had a fantastic weekend last weekend and you spend time at Morrow Lago. Can you tell us about it?

0:15 Speaker 2 Well, John, I’m going to hold off on that one a little bit until next week because I want to wait for some really positive outcomes which are coming our way over the next few days. And I can’t wait.

0:27 But we’re going to get to that next weekend because it is very exciting. But I don’t want to say anything just yet. But everything is very positive regarding our children and our families. But I want to talk to you about a very disturbing subject matter, are you ready, which is pornography and the harm to our children. So

0:47 I’d like to add a warning right now.

0:50 Speaker 1 Well, when I was fourteen years old, I always we used to run around trying to find either penthouse or a playboy.

1:00 Speaker 2 Those days are over. I’ll tell you why, because children are not on the sidelines anymore, running around trying to find the brown covers or going under you know, the father’s bed looking for things, or hiding you know, out in the barn laughing at pictures. Kids today are in the blast zone because we are living in a moment,

1:19 remember twenty twenty six, it’s like any other time in our history, and for the first time, the most extreme forms of sexual content. And we’re a family program here, so I want everybody to understand extreme forms of content are instantly available to anybody, and that’s our children. With a smartphone. We have no barriers, we have no gatekeepers,

1:40 we have no delay. Kids are seconds away anytime. But the Internet, it didn’t simply John make things easier. It has industrialized sexual content. Right, that’s a money maker for everybody. It turned it into this consumer product, affordable, anonymous, infinite.

1:59 So the reason we have kids online, they’re online all day long, right, a marketplace built in. And we can’t have our kids seeing so much of this because again it’s not a fringe product anymore, or all of this sexual content. We have researchers now describing what it does to kids. And it’s a powerful force, you know, social

2:20 force shaping what they think. You know, sexual norms are about. And it’s teaching the Internet’s teaching them about this. It’s modeling. It’s conditioning. John. More of this conditioning. We always talk about, how do you change a country. As society, you go after the children. So the kids are learning about bodies and consent and power and all kinds of things from

2:39 what’s being fed to them through these algorithms online. And we have kids as young as seven and eight, and we have focused groups and this is what they’re learning. They may not even be looking for a John, but it is fed to them through these algorithms that big tech companies want them to see, to keep eyeballs on,

2:57 to addict them for the rest of their lives. And it’s become a compulsive use among teens, girls and boys alike. There’s no it’s a boy, it’s a girl. It’s girls and boys alike. So we know we have because they’re seeing this, you know, increased sexual harassment behaviors in middle schools.

3:13 Pediatricians are telling us, definitely increase, increasing all kinds of you know, normalization to this anxiety and depression that the kids are. You know, they look at a body, they think my body is supposed to look like that. They’re twelve, they’re looking at a thirty year old. It’s crazy. So we can’t ignore. You know, people don’t want to talk

3:30 about this John, this pornography and the kids. We can’t ignore this pipeline.

3:34 Speaker 1 So how do you? I mean, the internet is is full of that stuff. And I mean, you know, the days I was growing up, there is no internet. You have to go find Playboy magazine or something. But now the internet is so prevalent.

3:49 Speaker 2 Forget the Playboy. That was tame something I don’t like to say about anything with all of this. That was tame to what kids are being fed today. And again the category for this pornography, I don’t even like the word pornography. We need some sort of new word, right is things I can’t say on the Family Program because

4:07 you know it also involves a lot of children. In this pornography, kids are seeing kids abused online and that is called see SAM child sexual abuse material. What do we do? Okay, again, you got to start early conversations, age appropriate about content. And you know, before this exposure happens, you got to emphasize you got to teach your kids respect,

4:29 consent and the difference between what they see online and what a real relationship is. And make it clear. We have to make it clear, John, kids will not be punished for anything. They must be able to come to us because so much from strangers is being thrown at them and again device activate your parental controls. You’ve got

4:48 to that will at least reduce this accidental exposure and get them off the devices. You know, if it’s fifteen minutes a day, you start there, you work up to an hour, two hours. We’ve got to try something because none of this is going away. Number one thing I will say to you. Devices do not belong in bedrooms.

5:04 Isolation increases risks, so you know, putting them out on the dining table. Everybody has to. You know, the adults have to do this as well. Keeping them in the adults bedroom. You know, putting them away again just reduces the compulsive use and exposure. And you’ve got to monitor.

5:18 I say it every week. You got to know what the kids. You got to talk to them a little bit. You’ve got to watch your own child behavioral changes. We’ve got to be on top of this. There’s a great website I recommend Defendyongminds dot com, Fight Theanewdrug dot org and always Lenswarriors dot org for more information. But we

5:35 must talk about this, We must be realistic and we must protect our children.

5:40 Speaker 1 Lynnshaw, thank you for the update and we’ll catch you up again real soon, and I’m looking forward to hearing about the White House next week.

5:47 Speaker 2 Thanks John, we’ll talk again soon.