2013-07-23, 10:54 AM
Rick Wrote:I don't see any positives to over-zealous and prudish mothers being able to block their teenagers from viewing pornography. I think pornography gives teenagers (especially boys) an avenue to satisfy their curiosity about the ins and outs (pun not intended) of sex without actually going out and doing it themselves and possibly ending up with a mistake that will haunt them the rest of their lives. I wish society would stop being so god damned afraid of sex and everything that goes with it.Exactly, tech-savvy kids, blocks on adult content and a poor sex education system is far more dangerous than any of the stuff they are trying to prevent. Misinformation or no information at all will lead to kids not understanding what sex is, or they won't be equipped to deal with it when it happens.
I learnt what sex was by discovering it myself online and through conversations with my other friends who were discovering the same things. Making normal sex even more of a taboo subject will lead kids to accidentally discovering sex which ISN'T normal, like rape-porn as mentioned in the article. It just pushes kids into an even deeper part of the internet to learn how to bypass restrictions.
Blanketed restrictions is not an effective replacement for good parenting, and never should be. All this does is give parents the ability to NOT have to talk about sex, leaving kids even more uninformed about how, why, and the dangers of sex.