Judith Reisman, president of the Institute for Media Education, concludes: “Health - based neurological observations about the instinctual brain - imprinted response to pornographic sights and sounds indicates that viewing pornography is a biologically significant event that overrides informed consent ​ — and that is harmful to children’s [moldable] ‘ plastic ’ brains because it compromises their grasp of reality and thus their mental and physical health, their well - being and their pursuit of happiness. ”
काही संशोधकांचे म्हणणे आहे की अश्‍लील साहित्याच्या संपर्कात येणाऱ्‍या मुलांच्या मेंदूचा नैसर्गिकरित्या सामान्य विकास होत नाही. इन्स्टिट्यूट फॉर मिडिया एड्यूकेशनच्या अध्यक्षा डॉ.