No, porn is not bad, in the blanketed sense. There is bad porn though.
Not sure what you mean with "putting children and families at risk", there are free to use safeguards to keep your children safe from seeing a pair of testicles on someone's face instead of a packet of tea should they google the word "teabag."
Then the parents of those kids should take some damn responsibility and get a locking program.
It's all too easy for a kid to access porn on ANY internet device, but if there was a child lock, then the child wouldn't get to see Nancy taking it in the butt from a horse.
It's still the responsibility of the parent to take the necessary measures in keeping their children away from what they wish to keep them safe from.
What do you suggest? Porn be outlawed because some parents don't bother using readily available and free internet filters? Not bothering to do a quick review of the child's internet history?
Family's at risk?? Grammar aside, what does this mean exactly, other than young kids potentially gaining access to porn.
Also, at 10, kids' balls haven't even dropped yet. Beyond some initial shock, I can't imagine them sneaking away from their parents to watch porn. At that age, once we had a computer, I was sneaking away to browse Digimon websites.
Anyway, yeah, it's not an issue when there's responsible parents. As any teacher will tell you, 99% of the kids whose parents care about their exposure/grades/etc. will be fine, and probably 50-70% of the kids whose parents don't give a damn are the ones at risk for all sorts of bad things.
I was into whatever internet porn there was when i was 11-12...
I had already raided my parents/uncles stock of old playboys, had a couple of mags from friends older brothers, and a couple of VHS stolen from other parents/etc.
man, the internet sure made porn easy to find for young boys, you know, who would never find it otherwise...
or, we are freaking out over new technology like we always do
Despite how many people say that "porn is porn is porn", and such other nonsensical things, I firmly believe that there is "good porn" and "bad porn" that can have varying effects on the viewer, young people, especially
Good porn: Nurse Nancy getting her rectal temperature taken by Dr. Hung in a hospital scene.
the internet has doubled the availability of porn?
not only doubled ,but tripled and so on....
also, the internet is what it is today because of porn, not the other way around.
Filters, security measures, digital distribution, sharing clients, subscription services, online shopping, is all possible because of porn. They've been doing it since before the internet became mainstream, they had a big hand in making it mainstream
just wonder where ebay and amazon will be today if there was no porn
so yeah... It is really bad
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I can't say I've ever been in a situation with someone where "porn" was mentioned, and they confused it for "depictions of children being assaulted".
I mean, sure, that would kill the mood... I just haven't been there. I think most people can clearly distinguish between "adults ****ing for money and entertainment" and "children being exploited" to the degree that we don't use the same term to describe it.
in terms of this thread, I think it is pretty safe to conclude that, for instance, a video of a real rape, isn't being included as "porn", because only the smallest minority of people are going to think of it like that... and it is a crime anyways...
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