Nearly half of online users ages 10–17 had seen porn (two-thirds of whom had done so on accident), according to one study by the University of New Hampshire (UNH). She would never.ĭon’t kid yourself, says Lang. Lang is one of the few professionals to whom parents can turn when they learn their child did what Mary did: stumbled upon online pornography. “It’s like picking a scab,” says Amy Lang, a Seattle-based sexuality educator who runs Birds + Bees + Kids. Each time was accompanied by the thoughts: This makes me feel different. Whatever the case, she found herself watching people do things she had never, ever seen before. She was on her mom’s iPad, as she so often was, and Googled a word she’d overheard or hit a link she wasn’t supposed to or clicked an ad she didn’t understand.