If your blood pressure has recovered from last week’s entry about pregnancy being the latest “fashion craze” among teenage girls, be warned that it’s about to go through the roof again.

A groundbreaking study on porn use by 13- and 14-year-old teens shows an alarming number are watching “more times than they can count” and their parents are unaware.

“If you’re 13 and you can’t put a number on the times (you’ve used porn), that’s a little frightening,” University of Alberta researcher Sonya Thompson said, adding 35% of boys fell into that category along with 8% of girls.[...]

The Internet was the most common way for kids to get access to porn, with about three-quarters of students reporting such contact.

Thompson found almost one-quarter of the boys watched pornographic DVDs or videos “too many times to count” and 35% said the same about Internet smut. The corresponding figures for girls were 4% and 8%.

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