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"it would obviously be a good idea to stop children from viewing porn" Nonsense. I'm bloody glad I had access to porn as a closeted gay teenager. Without acces
by tommorris 14y ago
"it would obviously be a good idea to stop children from viewing porn"
Nonsense. I'm bloody glad I had access to porn as a closeted gay teenager. Without access to Internet porn, my teenage years would have been far more miserable and lonely.
It was only a decade ago when Section 28 was still the law of the land. Internet porn was giving plenty of gay teenagers the sex education that society and the education system was too prudish and/or fearful to give them.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoI wish I could upvote this multiple times. Teenage years are a period usually with low self steam, confusion and doubts. At least porn helps teens to calm their hormones in healthier way than the alternatives: striptease, hookers, "bad girls" or drugs. And with internet they can do it from the safety and privacy of their own home without the risk of doing anything stupid to watch people having sex. And of course, like you mention being gay doesn't help with all of those puberty issues.
- true_religion 14y agoI'm curious what's unhealthy about these: > striptease, hookers, "bad girls" Maybe I'm just thinking slowly this saturday, but couldn't it be argued that those all have the virtue of giving social interaction that porn does not give, and giving a realistic view of what sex involves?
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoHookers and "bad girls" make the risk of STDs higher. Also they all cost money. Also you may end up in places that increase the risk of being robbed, damaged, consuming harmful addicting distances such as alcohol, etc. The lack of sexual education before sexual encounters is a real issue, not really with porn.
- tomjen3 14y agoTo be a little nit-picker here, but he specifically said children, wereas you said teenagers. I too believe it is a good idea to make sure 6 years old don't stumple on a inter-racial shemale anal-gangbang site before they are old enough to understand what sex is. Teenagers are an entirely different catagory.
- tommorris 14y agoAccording to the law, they really aren't. That said, I think the under 10s probably need parental supervision anyway.
- tomjen3 14y agoThe law may not discriminate between teenagers and children, but I would question the parentalabilities on a parent who still treat their 14 year old as if she was 6 or 9. As, I imagine, would the child authorities.