W hen Maya Bernstein, 18, first became sexually active in high school, she was nervous. How would she know what to do? Especially, it seems, how things should look. The numbers shot up so quickly that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ACOG issued new guidelines this month for doctors who perform labial and breast surgery.

He was spared jail after a court heard of the "good elements to his character". John O'Brien had 61 indecent images of children, featuring boys aged just three and girls as young as five. The year-old also downloaded revolting extreme porn files showing bestiality with horses and canines. But the pervert was spared jail after a court heard of the "good elements to his character", including treating injured soldiers in the first Gulf War and 25 years working for Liverpool Council. Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said O'Brien was present when officers struck just after midday and seized three laptops.

Fearing he was trading company secrets, a Manitoba man's employer secretly reviewed the contents of his work computer only to find he was loading it with child pornography, including nude pictures of his own pre-teen daughters, a court heard Wednesday. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identities of his victims, previously pleaded guilty to possession and production of child pornography, sexual interference, voyeurism, criminal harassment and four counts of failing to comply with court orders. Police arrested the man in October after his employer reported finding child pornography on his work computer and videos of the man engaged in sex acts with a female co-worker both at home and at work.

Those numbers jump up toward the end of adolescence. There are plenty of reasons to watch pornography or view pornographic images. It feels good. Sure, sex — in terms of evolution — is for making babies. Sex is also a way to express love, experience intimacy, and mark the passage from adolescence to adulthood.