Teen porn is one of the biggest problems referring to internet today, since more and more people have access to the web at a younger age (it is estimated that nearly 98% of teens already used a computer and internet) In addition, pornography grows in an exponential way on the internet today, ruling over search engines results in most popular subjects, which includes even cartoons. Accordingly with a research from 2004, there was nothing less than 420 million pornographic pages on the internet at that date, covering from mainstream porn to weird fetishes and teen porn.

Most of the erotic material that we found on the internet under teen porn a label is in fact pornography with youngish look alike not actually minors. However, the simple existence of such sites already influences people to seek for more teen porn, leading to illegal sites.

There are several researches and studies about teenagers and the use of internet, revealing important facts that may help up understand why the spreading of teen porn may be so harmful. It is estimated that 11 million kids regularly view some kind of online pornography. Sometimes it is very difficult to determine what kind of porn is legal or not. Teen porn sites are in general visually appealing, designed to draw kids’ attention, what makes those sites even more dangerous. Once they discover teen porn so widely available on the internet, they start searching for more, what may lead some of those teens to the so called porn addiction. Teens can’t be blamed for being exposed to erotic material. In fact, kids report to be very common not to report their parents about porn exposure since they are worried that parents would ban them from going online. Parents also need to understand that the first exposures to any kind of pornography, including teen porn are undesired by the kid. 23% of teens interviewed in a recent research report feeling upset by the constant exposure to undesired pornography online.