There's aesthetic/artistic pr0n and their's cheap/cumasfastasyoucan pr0n. Apple vs. Dell. Pr0n is like a knife. It's a tool that can be used for fun things like putting butter on sandwhiches, or bad things like stabbing/cutting wrists. Some try to accuse the tool and the tool makers when it's people who abuse the tool that are really the problem. Then again, this is the same argument used by gun manufacturers....;)
.xxx TLD stuff won't change a single thing and will just be YAFROTE (yet another fearful rationalization of the ego).
If kids are an undesirable demographic to the pr0n companies/sites, and pr0n content is undesireable to parents wishing to deny what parts of reality their children are capable of, they should really just never let them surf alone and then ALL subjects will be covered.
I don't believe technology should substitute personal attention and raising. Kids find a way to see what they're made to believe is seductive by first being made to believe it's off limits. I know some more astute parents will wrap it up in a context of, "not yet ok? Just not yet", but most are content with, "I said no, and if you don't like it, there's the door" or "while you live under my roof you obey my rules" or "you will go to hell." Kids test the BS they're shoveled, and then we punish them for it. Nothing is as alluring as something forbidden! And nothing is as boring as something that's common with no fuss made. Kids who have wine when their 13 with dinner along with the rest of the family find it to be quite boring and not worth getting drunk over when they're 21.
Kids will get to see pr0n no matter what is attempted. With the ol' fashioned, "just supervise your kids' use of media devices", reasonable protection will still be given. They'll end up doing the opposite of what they're told anyway while unsupervised at friends' houses which is where they'll be sneaking peaks at magazines, DVDs, and playing with alcohol and cigarettes. You can't hide the world from people no matter what age they are. The truth is persistent like that.
The only way to protect kids from pr0n is if the adults gave it up. It's the same with alcohol and cigarettes. Kids are brilliant and can smell a ruse when they hear all this "pr0n is bad!" and then they see a multi-billion dollar industry breathing and growing, showing them that their parents are the minority and that if the majority speaks that it's ok, why wouldn't it be? Do kids not gravitate towards what's popular, in, and socially probable to validate them if they too agreed?
The hypcrisy is that we try to tell our kids that pr0n is bad (sex/pleasure between consenting people) and that war (death/pain visited unto unconsenting people) is good. Why not bar kids from the military if death is so wrong? Because we don't REALLY see death as wrong. We see death machines as jobs, pride, career, growing one's person, fighting for values and so on. Who gets into the pr0n industry in the name of god? Many pick up a gun for it and are quick to use it though. We've been doing THAT for thousands of years. How fearful and desireous of killing someone of differing beliefs when they're having an orgasm or anal sex?
I'd prefer we all had more sex and risk our kids see adults exchanging pleasure than killing each other and our kids seeing the bloodshed. Not all sex is flowers and saxaphone music. Some of it is loud, sloppy and utterly animalistic. Funny, how in that more raunchy context, "god" is mentioned all the more often, and nobody dies.;) Happy couples never forget those moments and giggle and tickle each other remembering them just as much. And yeah, sometimes couples mutually consent to things like facials and role playing. How boring would we be if we only ever did missionary?
Can all that be abused? Sure! But we abuse our bodies with junk food all the more. Do parents cry foul and turn off the TV each time there's a McDonald's commercial? Do they lobby organizations in religious groups wanting such fatty content to be aired after 9pm? Maybe all web sites promoting junk food should have the TLD.fat? We could do both until we run through all 26x26x26 possibilities.
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There's aesthetic/artistic pr0n and their's cheap/cumasfastasyoucan pr0n. Apple vs. Dell. Pr0n is like a knife. It's a tool that can be used for fun things like putting butter on sandwhiches, or bad things like stabbing/cutting wrists. Some try to accuse the tool and the tool makers when it's people who abuse the tool that are really the problem. Then again, this is the same argument used by gun manufacturers.... ;)
.xxx TLD stuff won't change a single thing and will just be YAFROTE (yet another fearful rationalization of the ego).
;) Happy couples never forget those moments and giggle and tickle each other remembering them just as much. And yeah, sometimes couples mutually consent to things like facials and role playing. How boring would we be if we only ever did missionary?
.fat? We could do both until we run through all 26x26x26 possibilities.
If kids are an undesirable demographic to the pr0n companies/sites, and pr0n content is undesireable to parents wishing to deny what parts of reality their children are capable of, they should really just never let them surf alone and then ALL subjects will be covered.
I don't believe technology should substitute personal attention and raising. Kids find a way to see what they're made to believe is seductive by first being made to believe it's off limits. I know some more astute parents will wrap it up in a context of, "not yet ok? Just not yet", but most are content with, "I said no, and if you don't like it, there's the door" or "while you live under my roof you obey my rules" or "you will go to hell." Kids test the BS they're shoveled, and then we punish them for it. Nothing is as alluring as something forbidden! And nothing is as boring as something that's common with no fuss made. Kids who have wine when their 13 with dinner along with the rest of the family find it to be quite boring and not worth getting drunk over when they're 21.
Kids will get to see pr0n no matter what is attempted. With the ol' fashioned, "just supervise your kids' use of media devices", reasonable protection will still be given. They'll end up doing the opposite of what they're told anyway while unsupervised at friends' houses which is where they'll be sneaking peaks at magazines, DVDs, and playing with alcohol and cigarettes. You can't hide the world from people no matter what age they are. The truth is persistent like that.
The only way to protect kids from pr0n is if the adults gave it up. It's the same with alcohol and cigarettes. Kids are brilliant and can smell a ruse when they hear all this "pr0n is bad!" and then they see a multi-billion dollar industry breathing and growing, showing them that their parents are the minority and that if the majority speaks that it's ok, why wouldn't it be? Do kids not gravitate towards what's popular, in, and socially probable to validate them if they too agreed?
The hypcrisy is that we try to tell our kids that pr0n is bad (sex/pleasure between consenting people) and that war (death/pain visited unto unconsenting people) is good. Why not bar kids from the military if death is so wrong? Because we don't REALLY see death as wrong. We see death machines as jobs, pride, career, growing one's person, fighting for values and so on. Who gets into the pr0n industry in the name of god? Many pick up a gun for it and are quick to use it though. We've been doing THAT for thousands of years. How fearful and desireous of killing someone of differing beliefs when they're having an orgasm or anal sex?
I'd prefer we all had more sex and risk our kids see adults exchanging pleasure than killing each other and our kids seeing the bloodshed. Not all sex is flowers and saxaphone music. Some of it is loud, sloppy and utterly animalistic. Funny, how in that more raunchy context, "god" is mentioned all the more often, and nobody dies.
Can all that be abused? Sure! But we abuse our bodies with junk food all the more. Do parents cry foul and turn off the TV each time there's a McDonald's commercial? Do they lobby organizations in religious groups wanting such fatty content to be aired after 9pm? Maybe all web sites promoting junk food should have the TLD