Playboy January 1994-pg 85

  • 100% of all high school age males surveyed reported having read or looked at Playboy or similar "men's entertainment" magazines
  • the average age when viewing first issue is 11 years old
  • 16.1 issues is the average number seen by male high-schoolers
  • 92% of males in junior high report exposure to Playboy or similar magazines
  • 12.8 years is the average age of exposure to first R-rated film
  • a larger portion of high school students had viewed X-rated films than any other age group
  • --J. Bryant, testimony to the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography Hearings, Houston, Tex; 1985, transcript. 128-57.

    
    
    

    "For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own . . . [but from] mass-produced, deliberately dehumanizing and inhuman [images]."
    --The Price We Pay, 122.

    
    
    

    "Studies show that children under 17 report more frequent exposure to pornography than other age groups." 1