Firstly, your weak reasoning stands on using the term "too much" which is quite vague and problematic in itself. (The OP does not state how often or how many hours a day / week the boy watches it)
Secondly, you seem to read a lot of bad pop "science" articles written by "addiction experts" who misuse pop neuroscience to scare people. Unfortunately, in the past even doctors spread lies about masturbation damaging human brain, now they just replace the term masturbation with porn and the straw man is alive and kicking again... Publishing a blur picture of brain scan in a magazine alongside with anectodal evidence and spicing it up with terms like dopamine, reward circuitry and desensitization does not prove anything...
Thirdly, using Internet too much in general can damage our social skills, so should I suppose that you are automatically a social loser because you have created your account on this forum??? Probably not, but you know "too much Internet can lead to Internet addiction and you will lose your social skills, so please consult your therapist and seek help!" (seems silly, doesn´t it?)
(Another argument of this kind: if he plays computer games, he will become a serial killer because computer games promote violence, you know there was this kid in Japan who killed another kid after playing NinjaCombat on his computer.)
Is it normal for my 11 year old son to watch porn?
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Firstly, your weak reasoning stands on using the term "too much" which is quite vague and problematic in itself. (The OP does not state how often or how many hours a day / week the boy watches it)
Secondly, you seem to read a lot of bad pop "science" articles written by "addiction experts" who misuse pop neuroscience to scare people. Unfortunately, in the past even doctors spread lies about masturbation damaging human brain, now they just replace the term masturbation with porn and the straw man is alive and kicking again... Publishing a blur picture of brain scan in a magazine alongside with anectodal evidence and spicing it up with terms like dopamine, reward circuitry and desensitization does not prove anything...
Thirdly, using Internet too much in general can damage our social skills, so should I suppose that you are automatically a social loser because you have created your account on this forum??? Probably not, but you know "too much Internet can lead to Internet addiction and you will lose your social skills, so please consult your therapist and seek help!" (seems silly, doesn´t it?)
(Another argument of this kind: if he plays computer games, he will become a serial killer because computer games promote violence, you know there was this kid in Japan who killed another kid after playing NinjaCombat on his computer.)