Today's children are born with a tablet in one hand and a smartphone in the other. And although each family has its own set of rules regarding the use of iInternet, Most end up accessing the network from an early age. The problem is that adult content is leaking onto social media and has now been identified in TikTok.
Although it is an uncomfortable topic for families and many believe that their children do not consume pornography, the latest data from the Foundation for Help Against Drug Addiction (FAD) show that Minors are starting to watch this type of content between 8 and 12 years of age. and consumption is constant between 13 and 17 years of age.
Furthermore, according to the report '(Dis)information on sex: pornography and adolescence' published by Save the Children, almost 10 % of minors have access to pornography before the age of 10 and the 53.8 % before age 13.
In many cases, the main reason that drives them to search for and consume this type of content is the Lack of sexual information and education from their parents, which has caused 3 out of 10 minors to use pornography as their only resource for learning about sexuality, says Save The Children. But on other occasions Consumption or access occurs randomly through social networks like TikTok.
TikTok is the social network most used by minors. In fact, according to the latest Qustodio Annual Data Report, Children spend an average of 75 minutes a day in the applicationParents have been more or less calm about their children's use of this platform, but Now pornography has infiltrated, although not completely.
On social networks, various types of content are created, used and distributed. hashtags with the aim of promoting content, promoting initiatives, creating trends or increasing the number of followers, but they are not always harmless.
And now a new trend has been born on TikTok that, through the use of language codes, allows anyone, regardless of age, access, share and distribute pornographic content.
The labels used are #youtubeorange and #youtubeblue And, although at first glance they do not seem to indicate an alarm signal, behind each one of them there are hidden two large pages of pornographic content:
– #youtubenaranja It has a total of 121.3 million views within the platform and refers to Pornhub, one of the largest pornography sites out there.
– #youtubeazul addition 118 million views and refers to XXNX videos, another sexual content platform.
This does not mean that TikTok has pornographic content, but that Many people use this platform to reach a wider audience or to promote themselves using these hashtags.
The problem is that This is very difficult to moderate within the application, since these labels are created to evade control algorithms and can be modified over time to continue distributing this type of content without suspecting that a label is awakened.
What to do to prevent children from accessing pornographic content through TikTok
Experts agree on the same strategy: early sex education. This prevents minors from being associated with sexuality for the first time through pornographic content. If a child knows what pornography is and what the labels are about, they will have no interest in accessing and viewing it themselves.
Children are not born asexual and therefore their sexual education “It should begin in early childhood and continue throughout adolescence and adulthood,” says the World Health Organization.
“Sex education is also part of a more general education and, therefore, affects the development of the personality of girls and boys. Its preventive nature not only contributes to the prevention of negative consequences related to sexuality, it can also improve quality of life, health and well-being. In this way, sexual education favors the promotion of health in general," the organization points out.
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