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Are kids addicted to Web porn?
Easily accessed sex sites prompt troubling trend, experts say
Sunday, April 17, 2005

Every day, Daniel couldn't wait to get home from school so he could turn on his computer. Once it booted up, he typed "naked women" into Google, settled in and took his time to pick through the 5 million hits those two words brought to his screen.

Once in a while, he would turn around to make sure his mom, making dinner in the next room, couldn't see what he was looking at. With the coast clear, he turned back to enjoy the view, his mom none the wiser. The Internet blocker that his parents installed prevented him from viewing some pictures or videos, but not many. "I still had tons of choices," he said.

Scrolling through the photographs, he felt the familiar rush of pleasure and guilt. When his mom walked in, he flipped the screen to check his fantasy football standings or to respond to the instant-message boxes filled with friends' banter about teachers they didn't like, what would be on tomorrow's test and embarrassing stuff that happened at the lunch table. As soon as his mom left, he switched back to the porn -- just as he did every day from 3:30 until he went to bed around 11. Daniel said he was hooked.

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