It is a different world these days.
Kids of 4, 5 and 6 don't have to see their parents get their heads cut off when someone takes a fancy to their land, or their sisters raped when some tribe invades their village. They're insulated from hate and violence far more than they ever have been and (at least from my experience) see the world in a much more peaceful way.
And similarly, the sum of my sex education at school amounted to an awkward looking form tutor showing condoms to a class of 15 year olds. Now, my son has just watched explicit videos of sex and birth in school at 8. They see sex in far more places than ever before.
So they're learning about killing and violence later, and sex and procreation earlier.
Really can't see the problem.
think of something like '2 girls 1 cup'. Pretty much every 10 year old has seen this clip, its legal, yet what must it must do to young kids minds?
How do you stop kids watching this? There was nothing like this watchable 10 years ago.
As a kid in 80´s Copenhagen most sorts of porn were available 24/7.
You just had to throw some coins in the machine to get your magazine.
Cannabis, on the other hand, were not legal. So the largest market in northern Europe were made in the middle of the city.
40 years later it is still there. Number 3 on the list of tourist attractions and no age restrictions.