EPTOn April 06 2015 12:18 Mora wrote:
Like seriously.
The amount of trauma my 11 year old cousin has experienced because he is allowed to use facebook is DWARFED by anything porn has done to anyone.
The world is so fucking fucked.
Like seriously.
The amount of trauma my 11 year old cousin has experienced because he is allowed to use facebook is DWARFED by anything porn has done to anyone.
The world is so fucking fucked.
Porn doesn't traumatize kids.
What porn does is give kids a completely unrealistic expectation of what sex is. The vast majority of porn on the internet is very one-sided and objectifying; it essentially teaches adolescent boys (in general, since boys are a much larger audience for porn) that sex is a selfish act where the only aim is one's own pleasure and that the other person is the object.
Now, this isn't a problem in-and-of-itself. There are a large number of mediums that are completely unrealistic in how they portray things; action movies, songs, video games, novels, etc. The problem is when kids learn attitudes about sex from watching porn, and this is where parental responsibility comes in. Completely sheltering kids from nudity/porn until you can't legally control them just leaves them in the dark in terms of education. Eventually, they will get into it, and when they do, they'll have no idea what the fuck is going on. Instead of that, parents should be a little less prudish and actually teach their kids responsible attitudes/habits about sexuality, the human body, etc.
You don't just shelter kids from cigarettes without teaching them about the negative effects. You don't just hide kids from shitty food without teaching them about nutrition. You don't just teach kids abstinence without teaching them safe sex habits (if you want to actually accomplish anything, that is). Prohibition doesn't work. It never has.
