Neel Dhar was 7 years old when he first clicked on an online ad that led to pornography.

Even though he didn’t understand what he saw, his curiosity took him down a rabbit hole of the internet and its darker corners. Over time, he found himself spending more and more hours there.

“The only thing I wanted was hard dopamine and nothing else,” he said.

Dhar, who is now 19 and lives in San Diego, is part of a generation that grew up with the internet, and pornography, in their back pockets. Much of what Dhar and his peers learned about intimacy and relationships during his high school years came from the sexualized content he encountered online.

“We grew up as internet kids, and we were exposed to it at a very young age,” he said.

But it’s also the digital natives of Gen Z — who encounter

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