Probe Into Link Between Harmful Pornography and Health, Emotion

A parliamentary investigation into the repercussions of “harmful pornography” on health and mental wellbeing will be held in New South Wales (NSW). Attorney General Michael Daley has written to the chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Issues, Sarah Kaine, to request this inquiry. The Labor government is keen to deal with growing community concern about the exposure of children to violence and extreme pornography. This comes after an eSafety Commissioner report released in 2023 found 75 percent of teenagers aged 16 to 18 had accessed online pornography. Nearly one-third of these individuals had seen the online pornography prior to the age of 13. This report also raised concerns about readily accessible mainstream pornography containing “depictions of sexual violence” and “degrading sexual scripts about women.”...