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> The worries of the parents. This is the part I don't understand, what are those worries? What do you think it happens when a kid watchs porn? What negative c

> The worries of the parents. This is the part I don't understand, what are those worries? What do you think it happens when a kid watchs porn? What negative consequences have been demonstrated to happen? And is not like porn randomly plays itself in the browser, you have to use explicit sexual words for Google to respond with links to porn sites.

jiggy2011 14y ago
Well showing porn to young children could certainly give them some unrealistic ideas about sex, because it is harder to frame stuff in context as a child than as an adult. I've certainly visited sites where I've been exposed randomly to porn without googling for it. Especially disguised links on forums etc.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
  I don't think unrealistic expectations are the issue, Forrest Gump gives unrealistic expectations about life and success but nobody is trying to ban it; not to mention there is tons of amateur porn with fairly normal sex. The issue is social perception, dumbness by the masses pretending there is something evil and inmoral about watching other people have sex.
  - jiggy2011 14y ago
    Even forest gump has an (IIRC) 15 certificate here in the UK. The issue is that you don't necessarily control which porn your kids would see first. And there is certainly a disproportional amount of "extreme" content available prominently. I'm not sure it's necessarily just hysteria, I know people who would happily consume porn themselves but would be very mindful of what they expose their kids too.
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pavel_lishin 14y ago
> This is the part I don't understand, what are those worries? Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex is. If a kid who's just beginning to get curious about sex stumbles on hard-core BDSM/rape fantasy sites, it's probably going to have some sort of impact. (I picked an obvious bad-case scenario, I'm not saying it's always like this, or that it'll certainly traumatize them, etc., etc. I just wouldn't want my kid's first experience with sex to be a video of a gagged woman being whipped.) > And is not like porn randomly plays itself in the browser, you have to use explicit sexual words for Google to respond with links to porn sites. I was going to come up with an example where little Billy is searching for his uncle Dick, but most of the results are about Dick Cheney, which is arguably more frightening than pornography.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
  > Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex. That is certainly not the opinion of the masses because they don't want kids to see porn even years after they have been educated about sex. If you need to hide something is gore, sites like Reddit are full of it and contrary as porn it can be a little bit traumatic.
  - pavel_lishin 14y ago
    I'd wager that the people who don't want 17 year olds having access to porn are probably the same ones who don't really want sex education, either, aside from the "On your wedding night, God will let you know what to do" speech.
    - jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
      If your line of through were true there would be sites famous among parents for their unexaggerated normal porn videos, so when you have the talk about how normal sex is you would also mention that the desire for watching other people doing it is also normal and you would mention those porn sites. Well, that is never the case; they just teach you about sex and then they keep pretending that you don't want to access stimulating content.

jiggy2011 14y ago

Well showing porn to young children could certainly give them some unrealistic ideas about sex, because it is harder to frame stuff in context as a child than as an adult. I've certainly visited sites where I've been exposed randomly to porn without googling for it. Especially disguised links on forums etc.

jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
I don't think unrealistic expectations are the issue, Forrest Gump gives unrealistic expectations about life and success but nobody is trying to ban it; not to mention there is tons of amateur porn with fairly normal sex. The issue is social perception, dumbness by the masses pretending there is something evil and inmoral about watching other people have sex.
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  Even forest gump has an (IIRC) 15 certificate here in the UK. The issue is that you don't necessarily control which porn your kids would see first. And there is certainly a disproportional amount of "extreme" content available prominently. I'm not sure it's necessarily just hysteria, I know people who would happily consume porn themselves but would be very mindful of what they expose their kids too.
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pavel_lishin 14y ago

> This is the part I don't understand, what are those worries? Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex is. If a kid who's just beginning to get curious about sex stumbles on hard-core BDSM/rape fantasy sites, it's probably going to have some sort of impact. (I picked an obvious bad-case scenario, I'm not saying it's always like this, or that it'll certainly traumatize them, etc., etc. I just wouldn't want my kid's first experience with sex to be a video of a gagged woman being whipped.) > And is not like porn randomly plays itself in the browser, you have to use explicit sexual words for Google to respond with links to porn sites. I was going to come up with an example where little Billy is searching for his uncle Dick, but most of the results are about Dick Cheney, which is arguably more frightening than pornography.

jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
> Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex. That is certainly not the opinion of the masses because they don't want kids to see porn even years after they have been educated about sex. If you need to hide something is gore, sites like Reddit are full of it and contrary as porn it can be a little bit traumatic.
- pavel_lishin 14y ago
  I'd wager that the people who don't want 17 year olds having access to porn are probably the same ones who don't really want sex education, either, aside from the "On your wedding night, God will let you know what to do" speech.
  - jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
    If your line of through were true there would be sites famous among parents for their unexaggerated normal porn videos, so when you have the talk about how normal sex is you would also mention that the desire for watching other people doing it is also normal and you would mention those porn sites. Well, that is never the case; they just teach you about sex and then they keep pretending that you don't want to access stimulating content.