Is it wrong for teenagers to watch porn?

[Adam]

Apart from the risk of dodgy sites fucking up your computer, would you stop your 15yr old son (for example) looking at porn?

[Parts]

How could you stop them?  Now it's so easy but it was easy when I was young too before the web.  Stop the no but I would not encourage it

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KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE FUCKING SPAM TOPICS SOPH!!!

 

['Butterflies']

I wouldn't have a problem with it as long as they wern't looking at stuff that I thought was gross, like bestiality, necrophilia, and the like.

[Parts]

KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE FUCKING SPAM TOPICS SOPH!!!

 

At least they are valid topics and she is responding to them

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At least they are valid topics and she is responding to them

Yeah, that's about all you can say. She's going a little spamtard on us though. 

[Loupgarou]

I don't know whether it is "wrong" socially, but morally, maybe.

As a parent, my fundamental job is to keep my son safe, and that means regulating or introducing materials to him when he is age-ready. And the physical age of a person does not always reflect their emotional or psychological age, so I have to be careful that I do not deprive him or introduce him to things too quickly.

I cannot control what he does with his friends and I am sure he has looked at more than his fair share of stuff, but when it comes to the home that is as much control as I have.

Yep, I have access to all my sons passwords for Facebook, Hotmail and so on. Until he displays a good  and mature knowledge of the technology, I got my eye on him. I do not want to censor him, I want to know that he is safe. I know for a fact that he is looking at porn, but the websites are pretty mild as you have to pay to get into the more full on stuff. he does not know that I know.

I would not encourage it, but I cannot deny it either.

Loup

[Frolic_Fun]

If you stop them at home, they're going to see it through friends etc. anyway.

I think that there's no problem for teenagers to look at that stuff, since they're at that age were they're curious about sex anyway. It's up to the parents to educate them about sex, not protect them from it. Obviously they're too young to have sex, so they have to be taught that too.

I just don't get why sex is so taboo in today's society. It's a healthy, fun activity if done right.

[odeon]

Agreed. I don't think it's possible to stop them. I am concerned, though, because the stuff that is easily accessible doesn't really promote sex as a healthy activity. Impressionable young minds and all that.

I fully realise that my daughter will have sex, eventually, but I would prefer that she isn't taken advantage of by some kid who got the wrong idea. I'd have to kill that kid and that's not right either.

[bodie]

I would accept it,  but not encourage it.  I would be more concerned if a 15 year old DID NOT show any desire to watch the stuff. 

I recall many a happy hour when i was a teen sniggering at stuff like that.  It is just too embarrassing an issue to discuss with parents.  I remember my mum 'having a little chat' and to be honest all i wanted to do was get the fuck away!!   Most parents are too late by the time they get round to the topic.

Parents don't really wanna think of their kids having sex.  Equally i do not want to think about my mom on all fours either!  Which is why i said about accepting it but not encouraging it.

[TA]

It's perfectly natural, I would just tell them I do not want to see it and not to fuck up my computer. On the legal end of it: In the States, porn is only 18+ because that is most the prudish Christians could push.

[Al Swearegen]

I think the main thing is that the good aspects of sex ought to be muddled in with harmful aspects of sex.
a healthy respect and like for sex is fine but using it as a way to hurt or control or harm someone or degrade them as a person is wrong and if what they watch represens this then I thing bringing a bit of balance into things is fine.

['andersom']

Agreed. I don't think it's possible to stop them. I am concerned, though, because the stuff that is easily accessible doesn't really promote sex as a healthy activity. Impressionable young minds and all that.

I fully realise that my daughter will have sex, eventually, but I would prefer that she isn't taken advantage of by some kid who got the wrong idea. I'd have to kill that kid and that's not right either.

There was a woman doing research on knowledge and pleasure in sex, through the last decades, interviewing people from 80, to kids from 15.

Scary outcome is that kids nowadays know a lot about hardcore sex, yet hardly anything about the pleasure of sex.

Best educated, and having most fun, where those who were in their teens in the end of the seventies.

Easy access to hard core porn on the internet made parents and school pay less and less attention on how to educate kids properly on fun and safety.

[Joel Knox]

It depends on which kind of porn. It's worrying how accessible the most hardcore stuff is to anyone who has the ability to use Google.

[MissKitty]

Agreed. I don't think it's possible to stop them. I am concerned, though, because the stuff that is easily accessible doesn't really promote sex as a healthy activity. Impressionable young minds and all that.

I fully realise that my daughter will have sex, eventually, but I would prefer that she isn't taken advantage of by some kid who got the wrong idea. I'd have to kill that kid and that's not right either.

There was a woman doing research on knowledge and pleasure in sex, through the last decades, interviewing people from 80, to kids from 15.

Scary outcome is that kids nowadays know a lot about hardcore sex, yet hardly anything about the pleasure of sex.

Best educated, and having most fun, where those who were in their teens in the end of the seventies.

Easy access to hard core porn on the internet made parents and school pay less and less attention on how to educate kids properly on fun and safety.

My son is only 13 but we've had very frank discussions about sex, what is appropriate what is not. What's okay to watch at his age (no porn, obviously) but if he wants to watch youtube videos of girls in bikinis, then that's fine. One time he came running to whisper in my ear "can the bikinis have strings up the butt?"  I said no because he's kinda young and he's okay with that. We've had lots of talks about respect and how some videos can be degrading to women and the different kinds of sex etc.