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Kids maturing faster due to diet...and porn?

Posted on Sep 5th 2007 2:30PM by Jonathon Morgan

According to doctors, the number of children experiencing an early onset to puberty has doubled over the last 10 years. A recent survey of Chinese children found that, in fact, the average age children began puberty had dropped to 11 -- down from 13 just a decade earlier. Some boys are starting to see secondary sexual characteristics as young as 9 1/2, with girls developing even younger -- sometimes at only 8-years-old.

So what's causing the trend?

Some blame the diet of Guangzhou, the Chinese province where the study was conducted, as it's full of proteins and essential elements that can accelerate growth -- while others think the cause is Western fast food. Still others point to improper sex education -- noting that today's kids have access to more pornographic material, which makes them sexually precocious.

While I can understand how diet would have an effect on growth, it seems these doctors are suggesting that viewing sexually explicit material also encourages the biological process of puberty -- which seems hard to believe.

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