The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez sees a porn epidemic in his country. “The data is devastating,” he says in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais. “One in four under 12 years has consumed porn. Almost half of young people under 15 years watch it.”

That’s why he wants legislation banning access to porn for minors. “This is not puritanism. Porn affects our adolescents’ training and their future behaviour on an issue such as equality.”

Sánchez, therefore, pleads for new legislation that blocks porn for minors. He is, however, not the first to fight the industry. In November, Italian regulations went into effect to prevent minors from seeing porn on their phones. France is also working on a ban porn for minors, and Great Britain is contemplating what to do with the issue.

Mr Frank Heinrich, currently the chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance, is a former German MP who authored between 2019 and 2021 the Council of Europe report on which the resolution is based. What shocked Heinrich most during the reporting period was the scientific evidence. “Young brains, of both men and women, change when they watch porn regularly. That affects family relationships, and our society is falling apart already. Pornography consumption by minors could be seen as an axe at the root of society.”

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