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What young people are telling us

Our 2022/23 Dignify School Survey found that disturbingly high percentages of students have:

- viewed porn

- acted out porn

- a porn habit

- a porn addiction

The more than 4000 survey participants were aged between 14 and 18 and attending secondary schools in South West Hertfordshire.

40% (48% of boys, 32% of girls, 55% of other gendered students) have viewed porn

12 was the average age they first viewed porn (32% had viewed porn aged 11 or younger, with the youngest reported being only 3 years)

Of those who have viewed porn again:

15% watch daily or several times a day
38% have acted out what they have seen on porn (up 6% from last year's survey)
19% (23% of boys, 12% of girls, 23% of other gendered students) have a porn habit
13% (15% of boys, 8% of girls, 28% of other gendered students) have a porn addiction

On nudes:

31% have received nudes

60% of the 31% had received a nude from a stranger (72% of girls and 65% of other gendered students had, compared to 39% of boys who had)

14% have received nudes that were intended for someone else but which had been shared with them

9% have sent a nude to another person

21% of the 9% have sent a nude to a stranger

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