Purpose: To define the characteristics of young adolescents reporting having visited pornographic websites in the previous 30 days.
Methods: Survey among 3067 8th graders in Switzerland (mean age 14 years, 50.3% females). We asked participants to report whether they had visited pornographic websites in the previous month and we divided them according to their answers into 3 groups: never (G1; N = 2096), rarely (G2; N = 529) and often/very often (G3; N = 442). Groups were compared regarding age, gender, family structure, emotional wellbeing, main purpose of Internet use, problematic Internet use, having a personal (not shared) computer, having a parental filter and reporting current smoking, alcohol misuse (drunkenness), cannabis use and use of other illegal drugs. All variables significant at the bivariate level were included in a multinomial logistic regression using G1 as the reference category. Results are given as Relative Risk Ratios (RRR) with 95% confidence interval.