To Sum Up

[Luddly Neddite]

Some porn can be very harmful, including "non-violent" porn. Parents will always have more impact on their children than any other force and what kids are seeing on line is the ultimate responsibility of those same parents.

Long before easy access to porn on line, many were very threatened by their kids seeing consensual and loving sex on TV while letting them watch hundreds and hundreds of rapes, murders, etc. And, these days, the sex we see on TV can be very graphic.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

"Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth."
- Oscar Wilde

Thus for the first time ever, a poll of mine will be anonymous. Usually like holding people responsible for their votes. But, for this one, more and honest answers are prefered.

Question: What's more harmful to a child's development, non-violent pornography or excessively negative parental reaction to discovery of their child's normal sexual curiousity (as with viewing porn, masturbating, having sex, etc.?)

Parents don't make you pregnant...porn gets you to itchin'

Yeah, it's porn.

Sexual "itching" has nothing to do with hormones.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Some porn can be very harmful, including "non-violent" porn. Parents will always have more impact on their children than any other force and what kids are seeing on line is the ultimate responsibility of those same parents.

Long before easy access to porn on line, many were very threatened by their kids seeing consensual and loving sex on TV while letting them watch hundreds and hundreds of rapes, murders, etc. And, these days, the sex we see on TV can be very graphic.

Maybe where you live, here in Missouri we don't see dick. Literally. Even on cable or premium channels the "porn" isn't even softcore. See a woman's bottom, distant brief lower-front, and breasts. A man's bottom, but never his front. It's like teaching sex-ed with Barbie and Ken dolls (no actual genitalia in other words.) Can only imagine the shock and puzzlement then with people growing up with tha as their 'sex-ed.' "What do I do with this thing?" a man asks.

There's no scientific evidence non-violent pornography harms children who view it. There's annecdotal evidence violent imagery harms child-viewers. But is isn't all one thing, and nothing else as evidenced by differences in gun laws country to country. Japan has a population roughly equal to the US but infintesimally less violent crime despite widespread porn and a vastly different and mysogonistic culture.

And using Japan, there's zero evidence supporting the assertion porn makes kids wann have sex. Or at least not reproductive sex as Japan's currently got a population growth problem so severe the government recently started a PR/PSA compaign asking citizens to have more babies. This, from a country with porn everywhere and of a type much more offensive to our western sensibilities and standards as with violent porn glorifying rape, virtual child pornography, etc.

 

[September]

Perhaps if you help them become familar with human nudity without exposing them to porn, or living people. Like if you got paintings or sculptures around with exposed genitalia, they'll already know what the stuff is and won't be so "shocked" when they inevitably go look up porn on their own or with friends.

I don't suggest intentionally exposing them to pornography, but exposing them to material that grants them insight into the human body may help them in the long run.

I mean I got all sorts of paintings of angels and demons hangin up, with lots of exposed nudity. But its not pornographic. Children have seen them and they never tripped balls or became traumatized as a result. In fact they all thought my paintings were freakin' awesome and rarely even mentioned the nudity.

Something like that couldn't hurt, but definitely keep the hardcore BDSM strapon femdom videos the Hell away from your kids lmao
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[Delta4Embassy]

Perhaps if you help them become familar with human nudity without exposing them to porn, or living people. Like if you got paintings or sculptures around with exposed genitalia, they'll already know what the stuff is and won't be so "shocked" when they inevitably go look up porn on their own or with friends.

I don't suggest intentionally exposing them to pornography, but exposing them to material that grants them insight into the human body may help them in the long run.

I mean I got all sorts of paintings of angels and demons hangin up, with lots of exposed nudity. But its not pornographic. Children have seen them and they never tripped balls or became traumatized as a result. In fact they all thought my paintings were freakin' awesome and rarely even mentioned the nudity.

Something like that couldn't hurt, but definitely keep the hardcore BDSM strapon femdom videos the Hell away from your kids lmao
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Natural naked human body hasn't been considered pornographic since before the first World's Fair back in the 20s or whatever. Back then they allowed a naked woman to be displayed showing the beauty of the human body. Stipulated she couldn't move whatsoever though so she needed frequent breaks. Any movement was thought to be too 'illicit.' But it lay the stage for nudism and acceptance of the human body in the US. We seem to have gone back quite a bit though in modern times. Paradoxically, we have all this porn, and yet have an attitude towards sex and nudity not seen in over a hundred years. Have wondered if it's blowback because of all the porn as the increased racism seems blowback for having the first black President, and increased homophobia is blowback for gay marriage bans toppling one by one.

Even now while the law allows nudity by and large, it stipulates that you may not focus specifically on the genitals. In effect, nudist pictorials are fine minus 'zooming in' on genitalia. If anyone grew up watching MASH on tv, you'll remember "Hawkeye" had quite the stash of such magazines (porn in the 50s et al.)

Museums have had nude art for centuries. More repressive cultures have censored it, literally removing or covering offensive parts, or secreting away the more sexually explicit pieces into 'basement' displays viewable by invitation only. Sad really.

If our current attitudes about sexuality in the US are in fact some kind of blowback I hope it stops soon.

 

[Piss Bucket]

Delta, you are one damaged dude. Why are you so into this? Something tells me that you are not a researcher, so strike that. I personally do not get dwelling on sex. To me it is simple: insert cock, fuck, clean up and send her home. What the fuck else is there to discuss?

You are dwelling in this WAY too much. I am not the only one noticing either. Your subjects are getting WAY out there on the edge too.

In all seriousness, as one human being to another, quit doing this, quit rationalizing it, and go talk to a professional before you hurt someone or yourself. Something clearly had switched off in your brain.

 

[shart_attack]

In days of common sense (long since past) you would be in an institution surrounded by drooling troglodytes sitting in their own excrement.