‘The scale is enormous’: How hypermasculinity plus porn hurts teens

Many of the kids who come through Dale Tolliday’s clinic are boys, aged between 10 and 13. They often have two things in common: they watch porn, and they have a hypermasculine father who denigrates, abuses and, in some cases, physically harms their mother.

When they see men mistreating women sexually on screen, and have no counterbalance in real life, they think that’s the way relationships work.

Tolliday leads a government-run clinic, New Street Services, that treats 10- to 17-year-olds who display problematic, harmful sexual behaviours. There are around 1000 confirmed reports of so-called PHSB in NSW each year, and he believes that is the tip of the iceberg. “The scale is enormous,” he said.

It happens in schools, in social settings and in homes. Occasionally, it gets to court. Earlier this year, a boy was found guilty of choking his high school girlfriend. This week, a court heard about a consensual encounter between two 16-year-old schoolmates that turned into a protracted rape, which also involved choking.

Choking is commonplace; intentionally choking without consent became an offence in 2018. Between 2019 and 2021, the number of charges grew from 560 to 1200, Bureau of Crime Statistics and Reporting statistics show.

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One thought on “‘The scale is enormous’: How hypermasculinity plus porn hurts teens”

  1. Divide a society in whatever way possible, and then divided it again, and then divide it again. Stop the blame game (and go beyond treating symptoms) – and look at who is behind porn and male disrespect for women? When they have finished gaslighting us and dividing our society, they won’t even need to fire a shot – we will hand it over to them. Stockholm Syndrome on a global scale, anyone? Or would you like to be fried with that.

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