Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas

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Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 27, 2012 @04:34PM from the gift-that-keeps-on-giving dept.

dotarray writes "One Colorado family received more than they'd bargained for this Christmas when they gave five-year-old Braydon Giles a pre-owned Nintendo 3DS that apparently still contained 'graphic images' from a previous owner. From the article: 'Refurbishing is an art, as well as a craft. The whole point is to make a gadget feel pristine, even when it used to be owned by a cult leader, a scout leader or an exhibitionist. Sadly, someone in a Colorado GameStop stopped refurbishing before the job was complete. So much so that 5-year-old Braydon Giles opened his Xmas gift — a Nintendo 3DS — and discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things. As Channel 9 News tells it, Braydon showed the 3DS to his brother Bryton. He wanted his help to remove these weird pictures. '"

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Make love not war by NettiWelho · 2012-12-27 16:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
1. Re:Make love not war by aardvarkjoe · 2012-12-27 17:01 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Given that most European countries have laws against selling pornography to minors (albeit that exactly what is banned and what is not depends on the specific country and culture, ranging from more strict to more lax than the laws in the U.S.), perhaps you should consult with people closer to home?
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region#Europe
  
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2. Re:Make love not war by Evtim · 2012-12-27 17:36 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Poking silliness should never stop, otherwise the silly might decide they got it right...
3. Re:Make love not war by GloomE · 2012-12-27 17:56 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  He, being a sheltered US child, has not seen porn. Therefore the trauma.
  What trauma?
  The trauma where the parents run around yelling THE SKY IS FALLING!
4. Re:Make love not war by Kjella · 2012-12-27 18:37 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Yes, Americans do have some serious issues with nudity in non-sexual context but from TFA there's every indication that this was porn or at least erotic images and we don't let kids have that in Europe either. I wouldn't care at all if my kid got a half second nipple flash during the Superbowl, for all I care we could go to a nude beach but I would get pretty pissed if I bought a 3DS for my kid and it had porn on it. As for violence, there's degrees to everything - I don't remember exactly how old I was when we first started pointing plastic guns and saying "bang bang you're dead" but I wasn't that old yet it wasn't exactly like seeing Saving Private Ryan. I wouldn't worry one bit if my kid was laughing his ass off at the Road Runner tricking Wile E. Coyote to fall down a cliff, there will come a time and place where it's natural to talk about the difference between play violence and reality.
  I'm guessing a good time would be around the first time I find - or hear a wish for some semi-realistic FPS game, if you're old enough to pretend running around shooting people/monsters you're old enough for that talk too. About real people that don't respawn, that don't have magic medikits to fix them, that experience genuine fear and terror at gunpoint, that end up crippled or scarred for life or die bleeding out in the gutter, about widows and orphans, friends and family left behind. But there's a time and place for that talk, just like when your five year old want to play house with a mommy and a daddy it's still not time for the "okay, but remember to use a condom" talk. What next, are you going to point out the electric car track I had wasn't realistic because the car would be totaled and the driver dead if it crashed like that? Reality will get gritty enough in time.
  
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Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Taco+Cowboy · 2012-12-27 17:26 · Score: 5, Insightful

discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things

Sex act by itself is a part of nature.
Without sex acts, many higher form animals have no way to procreate.
When sex itself is deemed something that's not "pristine" something is very wrong - way beyond wrong .....

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1. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-27 17:37 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Well i dunno i've been on the internet a long time and i can tell you most of the stuff i've seen wouldn't result in procreation...especially the stuff involving animals, faeces or huge dildos.
2. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by pwizard2 · 2012-12-27 18:39 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Mod++ (if I had the points).
  
  I swear, there's a bunch of goddamn prudes in this country (yet violence is ok for some reason). Sex is the most natural thing ever and nothing to be ashamed of.
  
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3. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-27 19:43 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  If most of the things you've seen involve animals, feces, and huge dildos, I'm thinking this is more a problem with your tastes than of pornography's lack of procreative potential.
4. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Opportunist · 2012-12-27 23:46 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Yeah, titties are not for little kids...
  Seriously, though. I don't really get it. An act that is supposed to bring joy and fun is considered worse than an act that supposedly brings grief and pain? Is it me, or is something wrong with this?
  Or, in the immortal words of Mr. Jack Nicholson, "Kiss a pair of titties and the movie's X-Rated. Chop 'em off and it's PG13"
  
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Re:My daughter STILL remembers the PC... by isorox · 2012-12-27 22:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

And the fact you didn't check the computer over before giving it to you daughter wasn't a problem?