The exposure of young girls and boys to pornography has been dubbed Australia's latest 'national crisis'. Experts say the increasing exposure should be a Federal election issue and have advised the government to follow Britain's lead and look at implementing a proof-of-age requirement for porn websites. The national crisis saw a number of girls claim they've had sexual jokes made about their bodies, were compared to the bodies of porn stars and were asked for sexual favours, The West Australian reported. Widespread pornography and sexual content in advertising and pop culture was 'visual and conceptual assault' as 'children are shown porn when they aren't looking for it or expecting it', according to Edith Cowan University Professor Lelia Green.
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Both Peggy Orenstein and Cara Natterson have children who — deliberately, I assume — are mentioned only occasionally in their excellent books about raising better boys. Instead, Orenstein relies on the revealing and sometimes painfully intimate interviews she conducted over the course of two years with boys aged 16 to 22, and Natterson draws from years of practical experience as a pediatrician, and her ability to boil down complicated scientific studies to their tablespoon of curative parental medicine. But the personal stakes for both authors are clear, and urgent.