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Scottish experts warned that the rise in the viewing of pornography was implicated in a
variety of sexual problems - including a rise in levels of STDs and teenage pregnancies -
and called for parents to be more aware of what their children were watching.
Krauss said: "The internet is having some kind of accelerant effect, influencing and
changing behaviour. Males are having oral sex and losing their virginity much younger
when they are exposed to pornography, sometimes by a good three or four years for oral
sex or two years for their virginity."
She said: "The internet is where you get the most extreme stuff, sometimes live and in
action, and it serves to normalise abusive acts."
A rise in rates of oral sex has been linked to an increase in numbers of tongue, mouth and
throat cancers caused by the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus. Rates of the
disease are at a 30-year high and are particularly prevalent among young men.
Sue Maxwell, a psychosexual therapist at Relationship Scotland, said she felt young men
were too often getting their sexual information from pornographic websites rather than
the many "excellent" sites set up by the government.
She said: "Men are affected by internet sexuality more than women. Instead of
developing a relationship based on thinking what do you want, what do I want,' they go
for something that gives them another high and in to compulsive behaviour, seeking out
another sexual experience more sexually enthralling than the previous one.
Sex education in schools is insufficient, claimed Anna Martinez, head of the Sex
Education Forum. She said: "Young people continue to tell us that there is a big gap
between the sex education they need and the sex education they are getting in school, and
from parents.
"In the absence of good quality sex education, it is little wonder they turn to alternative
sources of information including porn in the search for answers."