Wide Before Their Time: Young People, Gender-based Violence and Pornography in Kandal Stung District

Abstract

The research highlights the complex links between violence, alcohol use, the use of pronography and nothions of masculinity and femininity in Cambodia. The future is threatened when 82 percent of of boys and 84.5 percent of girls are exposed to pronogrpahy from a young age. The impact of this can be highly destructive, affecting self-esteem, sexual scripts, gender norms and social, emotional and sexual development of children.