Kids Know Pornography When They See It
“This stuff comes barreling down the generations like a locomotive.” So said a man I’ll call Ted. Because so many sex addicts lead a double life, a “secret” life, they may believe (and their partners may believe) that their younger school-age children are not directly affected. Ted knows better. He’s a tall, good looking, successful 45 year old recovering sex addict. He remembers that when he was a kid growing up his father had a second home down the street from where the family lived which the father used to house his “girlfriends”. Kids know what’s going on, even young kids, and they know when something isn’t right. It affects them and skews their sense of what constitutes normal relating in ways they can’t understand or verbalize at the time.