Kids Like Porn.

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I'm pretty sure this is inappropriate for these forums. It's certainly against x10 irc network policy, but I'm not sure about the forums. I'd just let it die... Stupid subject anyways. Porn is bad in my opinion, it goes against my religion. I don't like the topic in the firslt place.

Like I said, I'd just drop it.
 

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I'm pretty sure this is inappropriate for these forums. It's certainly against x10 irc network policy, but I'm not sure about the forums. I'd just let it die... Stupid subject anyways. Porn is bad in my opinion, it goes against my religion. I don't like the topic in the firslt place.

Like I said, I'd just drop it.

I only originally posted this to keep the forums interesting and to share some interesting information. I never knew it would get heated enough to be an all-out debate about the ethics or value of pornography.
 

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As one of the strongly opinionated and religous types who posted a couple pages ago without any statistical proof whatsoever...

To me porn is a religious subject. My view of porn is strongly influenced by my religious beliefs about the value of people, the nature of sex itself, and what actions are defined as right and wrong. I didn't become religious until I was 17, and I was very much into porn before that. At the time I was an outcast in my social group because I was introverted and had a fairly low self esteem. In short, I was way too nervous to try and start anything with the girls I knew! I ended up turning to porn when my family got a decent computer with an internet connection. To be honest, it only made things worse for me. Now not only was I shy, but I ended up feeling like there were all these things about sex that I should have known already, and it made me feel like I would always come up short in that area of my life. (Before the flaming occurs, I found out after I got married that I had nothing to worry about. Either that or my wife is very forgiving...). After I became a Christian and began forming a new view of morality, the nature of sex, and the value of a person, I began to see just what porn had been doing to my view of women and myself. I was actually more comfortable looking at a woman from a distance than I was talking to her up close! This where my views come from. Not statistics, not proof, but my own life. Take it or leave it, I just that over anything some researcher has to say.

As for whether or not this thread could be offensive, I say this is off-topic, and we should leave the fears of being offended to the windows-vs-linux threads, though I suppose this thread could qualify for the Crossfire forum given all the debate. I would never say let it die, because this is a good debate, and so far no one's really flamed anyone else... yet.
 

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@jmcgowan - There you go, you said it yourself.

You had a problem with people, groups & women before you turned to porn. Porn was not the cause of your problems. I'm not entirely convinced that even now you've fully got your issues sorted out.
 

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eh, I can still be introverted from time to time, but my self esteem has recovered nicely (some would say a bit too much, but I digress). My problem with people, groups, and women before porn were due to my self-esteem and introvertedness (if that can be considered a valid word), after I started looking at porn the problem became one of how I viewed people. I didn't really look at the girls around me as people to talk to and learn about and get to know. I saw them more as just images. Something to be looked at. A body that was either pleasant to look at or not. While you're right that there were problems there to begin with, porn did nothing to make those problems better, and everything to make them worse.

As another example of what porn can do to a person (and I emphasize the word can because this is not a universal reaction), a guy I know who looks at porn quite a bit has never once referred to a female in personal, human terms. He always refers to females by how willing he would be to have sex with them. Girls bodies are judged based on how similar they are to his favorite porn images/videos/stars. A girls performance in bed is rated on how much it resembled porn scenes and whether his and her reactions were like the ones seen in porn. His relationships are defined by how good he felt the sex was, not by how well him and the girl got along or how well he knew or trusted the girl.

Like I said before, I admit that my view of porn is influenced heavily by personal and religious beliefs. In all, I try not to push those beliefs onto other people, but in the spirit of good debate, I'm adding my thoughts on the subject.
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eh, I can still be introverted from time to time, but my self esteem has recovered nicely (some would say a bit too much, but I digress). My problem with people, groups, and women before porn were due to my self-esteem and introvertedness (if that can be considered a valid word), after I started looking at porn the problem became one of how I viewed people. I didn't really look at the girls around me as people to talk to and learn about and get to know. I saw them more as just images. Something to be looked at. A body that was either pleasant to look at or not. While you're right that there were problems there to begin with, porn did nothing to make those problems better, and everything to make them worse.

As another example of what porn can do to a person (and I emphasize the word can because this is not a universal reaction), a guy I know who looks at porn quite a bit has never once referred to a female in personal, human terms. He always refers to females by how willing he would be to have sex with them. Girls bodies are judged based on how similar they are to his favorite porn images/videos/stars. A girls performance in bed is rated on how much it resembled porn scenes and whether his and her reactions were like the ones seen in porn. His relationships are defined by how good he felt the sex was, not by how well him and the girl got along or how well he knew or trusted the girl.

Like I said before, I admit that my view of porn is influenced heavily by personal and religious beliefs. In all, I try not to push those beliefs onto other people, but in the spirit of good debate, I'm adding my thoughts here.
 
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While talking about such a topic, what do some people think about sex?
 

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While talking about such a topic, what do some people think about sex?

Oh god, please no.

If you want to talk about sex, please start your own topic on Crossfire or something.

I don't want to be held responsible for initiating a discussion with questionable family-friendliness.
 

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Are there only adults hosting their site here?? Stra-a-a-ange..
Anyways, to go ontopic: I am a kid, i'm a 14 year old Dutch boy and yes, I DO watch porn every now and then. I agree with some of you that watching porn can result in "brain-wasshing" kids making the reality show up diferent for them then it is.

I openly think that watching porn also contributes in growing up. Every boy (or girl) experiments on his own before going to have sex with someone else, would be strange otherwise.

Seeya 'round
 

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Although this is common in the 21st century, many security software companies offered free or paid service to monitor your child. Also, your internet provider provides you with parental controls. This is such an interesting topic I wonder the random question "What color is the sky?" relates to your findings. Many will say blue obviously, but the tension of finding what it is are what the kids' mind have made them to be. In school, they discovered new things, and so well as online. You can't always protect your child, but at least you can slow the process.

:lockd:Don't open the lock just yet!
 

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Well. As most of you know, at ages 12-14, kids like to explore.... I would be surprised if someone didn't :p anyways, with the internet being widely available, they tend to use that to explore... Yeah, probably might want to get a filter :p
 

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Well. As most of you know, at ages 12-14, kids like to explore.... I would be surprised if someone didn't :p anyways, with the internet being widely available, they tend to use that to explore... Yeah, probably might want to get a filter :p

That's why I feel bad for my kids. I work with computers for a living. If they want to 'explore' the internet, they'll have to break through my attempts to stop them from looking at porn. Even then, at the very least I'll know what they found. I'm all for kids and young adults exploring on their own, even if it means that they end up hurting themselves or finding something I don't want them to, but I'm also for my right as a parent to try and stop them :biggrin:
 

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I'm also for my right as a parent to try and stop them :biggrin:

Truth be it, my parents did the same thing, so they moved the computer to the living room, where they can see everything I am doing. : ) ...I would probably do the same thing to my children, when I have some, just because I know this tactic works, but after a certain age...

my parents never talked about sex to me, what happens to my body when I get older...and all the mumbo jumbo...they thought we would learn at school...thing is, I did learn in school from other people, or on the computer...yea I know, you are saying how could you not know this stuff...well I didn't know a lot of things, and when I found out, from friends, it made me look stupid not to know these things, since everyone else did...that feeling I did not like, I don't like looking stupid, especially since I know the cause was my parents...

After a certain age, when I do have children, I will tell the son, (wife will tell the daughter) what I did not know...I want them to be informed...after a certain age, to be the best dad ever, I will in fact buy my son a magazine and pay for some porn, so they know and whatever.......sounds stupid, but I am preventing my children, from treating their opposite sex as objects/worth nothing but to have some fun (by letting them grow up the opposite of how I grew up).

Well if you read this post, and you were me...how would you feel? I would like to know, as I have yet to meet a person who would feel the way I felt.

Thanks for replying if you do reply honestly.

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But if you limit it, or expose it on person, just make sure you parents know what the effects are of not letting it be there, or letting it be there...I know if I had such access I would have been a different person. I do in fact treat woman as an object, and use them, then walk away like nothing happened. I have yet to come across a woman that I like and would want to be with, overall...every single girl I have slept with, every other day is still not what I need. Still not the person I am looking for.

Take it from me, don't let your children go around not knowing some things, without having received "the talk"...my parents sucked at stuff like this, and left it out...other parents would say, something like...okay, if you are going to have sex, it has to be that special person, after marriage and blah blah blah......I did not receive that, and thus, I don't think like that...I think more along the lines of...

get who you can for the night, so I'm not alone, and say Adios! at the end of the day.

That is me...please tell me what you think. I haven't found a place to express myself like this, in my entire life.

Thanks once again.
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To answer my last question this is what I think about sex...

It's human nature! Sex ensures that our species will survive and that's why sex is programmed deeply... inside... your mind. It's like... there's this voice inside your mind, which is actually, your vocalized urges and desires......and as you listen to this voice, it's telling you... you wanna have sex you wanna have sex... you need to have sex.... you need to have sex. now with me!, this is all so natural! You may not ACT ON IT, or JUST DO IT, but the point is, it's a desire... a natural, arousing urge... me,I take this in with an open mind, that is what I think when I am around some nice peice of a$$.
 
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@johnklyne - I appreciate the openness. It's not often people will say things like what you've said in such a public forum. As for me, my parents gave me a book instead of "the talk". ("The 'What's Happening to My Body' Book for Boys" to be specific!). They suplemented the book with random comments as they saw fit. While I was raised in a Christian home, my parents didn't really feel as though they could address the subject themselves from that viewpoint because my oldest sister was conceived before they got married. The way my dad ended up putting it was 'don't have sex, but I know that rules will be broken, so don't get her pregnant and don't let me catch you'...

As for what sex means to me (I say this thinking that this thread will probably get moved to crossfire soon) I see it as more than just good feelings and urges. To me, sex is a way of communicating things that words can't quite express. Things like trust and commitment. It strikes me that almost all emotional disorders have promiscuity or early sexual activity as a symptom, if not also as a cause. Sex strikes something deep down in us and if used wrong will either screw us up or become a way of coping to someone who already has problems (this is backed up by numerous texts on adolescent psychology, but I've been out of school way too long to remember titles).
 

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Well, I can't write much as I am typing on the Wii, and I am not getting paid to do this (not in crossfire ;)), but the most logical action is to educate. Both sides have good point, and an extreme parent on either side can make their child shy/inept/obsessive. Therefore, the best action is to reach your child before the porn sites do. Basically, tell them what to expect, so there are no surprises, and so your child does not think certain things are normal. Only you can tell them whats right, and they need to know.

Congrats adam for once again finding the oddest articles :)
 
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Now I myself only being 13 my opinion might be overlooked but i don't care. I feel that a man's attraction to women is only natural, it's natural to want a beautiful woman so that you have beautiful children and it is natural for people around my age to want to see it, as you hear about it in school. Since I was 12 they where blabbering on about it in school and since I was 11 my friends always joked about it which is how I learnt most of it. Porn is something no kid should Google. It isn't just like television porn it is MUCH worse. You find some really crazy pictures which would make you nearly throw up.
I believe porn isn't all that bad, it is natural to want to see hot girls but it isn't very natural the way it is portrayed. Anyway, it isn't just the internet, a mate of mine opened up his bag and he had like 10 porn DVDs in his bag. he reckoned he was going over another one of my friend's house to watch.
 

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Just one thing to say on the subject. Porn is a multi-billion dollar industry. I don't know the exact stats, but I'm willing to bet that more than 1/3 of that is used for child pornography. When you talk about porn, it's not just about the adults/18+ people that do it (at least in the US), it's about the children that are torn apart and raped for the purpose of making money. I recently read a story about a little girl that was homeless, and was abducted by a, for the lack of a better word, asshole, and was forced to do porn. These slesebags are killing children, if not physically, emotionally. The hurt that they go through will haunt them forever. Also, the physical pain is horrid, if not worse than the emotional hurt.

I'm not going to go into details, just because of the disgustingness of them. Google some stories about child pornography, and remember, porn isn't just the adults, it's the children that are raped and hurt for the rest of their lives.
 

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Just one thing to say on the subject. Porn is a multi-billion dollar industry. I don't know the exact stats, but I'm willing to bet that more than 1/3 of that is used for child pornography. When you talk about porn, it's not just about the adults/18+ people that do it (at least in the US), it's about the children that are torn apart and raped for the purpose of making money. I recently read a story about a little girl that was homeless, and was abducted by a, for the lack of a better word, asshole, and was forced to do porn. These slesebags are killing children, if not physically, emotionally. The hurt that they go through will haunt them forever. Also, the physical pain is horrid, if not worse than the emotional hurt.

I'm not going to go into details, just because of the disgustingness of them. Google some stories about child pornography, and remember, porn isn't just the adults, it's the children that are raped and hurt for the rest of their lives.

You're right - you don't know the stats. You're making up complete nonsense for the sake of trying to push home an already distorted viewpoint.

One third! ROFL :lol: You really ought to get out more.

And for your information, that type of porn is already ILLEGAL, so why are you trying to make a case against it? It has nothing to do with adult, legal porn.

Will you guys kindly quit trying to throw in mis-information in order to confuse the issue. And other people quoting the use of extreme porn as a reason to hate all porn, is another of these ridiculous tactics. Why don't you all take your thinly veiled bible-bashing back over to one of the "God" threads in this forum, so that we can really get down to what you are actually trying to preach?
 
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@zen-r: it's a shame. Until your post there was actually no personal attacks in over 3 pages of posts. Everyone here has been completely open about where their views came from, so nothing was 'thinly-veiled' as you've put it, and aside from comments made about John Klyne's views from the first page, no one has even gone so far as to say that one person's view was right, wrong, or better than someone else's view. We've all been expressing our own opinions. I can understand your desire to have proof given, as I agree that child pornography makes up less than the stated one third of the porn industry and it would be better to have backup when making statements like that, but please don't assume that anyone is 'bible-bashing' or 'preaching' anything just because we believe that something is wrong while others believe it's ok.
 

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@zen-r: it's a shame. Until your post there was actually no personal attacks in over 3 pages of posts. ..

I haven't attacked anyone personally. I have attacked the nonsense some people are posting here.

..Everyone here has been completely open about where their views came from, so nothing was 'thinly-veiled' as you've put it....

The "thin veil" comes from the way religion is first being used by the posters as some sort of moralistic reference point, & then quietly dropped & instead their viewpoint then suddenly gets backed up by ridiculous, spurious facts.

.....but please don't assume that anyone is 'bible-bashing' or 'preaching' anything just because we believe that something is wrong while others believe it's ok.

I haven't assumed anything.

The posters I am referring to have written about religion being their reference point when it comes to taking the stance that they do on porn. Furthermore, I am fully aware of posts to other threads that these people have made, confirming to me their religious views.

Whatever religious or other views people have is fine. But in justifying their views on porn by citing religion as their reference point, they have taken a position which provides no room for discussion about the actual rights or wrongs of porn. If, for example, I said I've just started a religion & my new belief is that all apples look like, & are to be treated like tables, would that mean my views are right or that I shouldn't substantiate my beliefs with actual facts?

I read the original, thread-starting post here shortly after it was made. I decided not to respond because I felt it wasn't a very appropriate area for discussion here, & because it could just be regarded as a piece of statistical "news" for us to be aware of.

However, after 4 days of reading the sort of responses it got, & the repeated, one-sided, biased, unfounded nonsense that was being written, I could bite my tongue no longer. Most people have completely ignored the actual topic, about kids accessing porn, & have used it as an opportunity to spam the thread with comments about all porn being harmful, even to/ for consenting adults.

This had been pretty much a one-sided attack, because the "moral minority" are very vocal & love to enforce their (mainly religious) beliefs. The silent majority are generally too embarrassed to speak up in this sort of forum, on this issue. So you were able to get away with it, & eventually I felt I had to respond, if only to try to put some sort of balance back into this ridiculous thread.

And yes, the majority do want porn. As was stated, sex is a multi-billion dollar industry - far larger than that of Hollywood.

Providing porn to children is already illegal (in most countries that I'm aware of) so the problem is in the enforcement. This is what you could be discussing. To instead attack what consenting adults do, is to take a totally different stance.

Why are you not attacking the computer gaming industry? Many games are violent & consistently played by children, usually with the implicit consent of their parents. This is despite the body of evidence which shows that violent imagery can be more damaging to a child's upbringing than images of nudity. It has long been regarded by experts that the violence in TV, movies or, say, rap music, can be more harmful than nudity. So why isn't this the bigger issue for you? Some might think that it is because those with religious views are prudish & have hang-ups about sex, whilst they have less of a problem with violence - as demonstrated historically by the endless wars being fought in the name of religion.

As I said, you can't lump all types of porn in together. It is a natural instinct for humans to want to see what other people look like nude. And not just 1 or 2 people, with you saving that special "treat" for when you are married. That is a sure-fire way to develop repressed emotions & urges, leading to problems throughout your life. In nature in the past, we would have just seen everyone walking around naked & it would have been normal. By wearing clothes, we have created all these new problems for ourselves.

Who is to say why we have the need to see other people nude? I assume it is to do with our brains needing to see enough bodies, faces etc to work out what are the average features to expect in others, what are the worst, & what are the best (for finding a mate). But whatever the reason, it is normal, so repress these urges at your peril!

I am unlikely to post again in this thread. I find it too annoying when people make comments which are not based on logic or reason, especially when they are completely off-topic from the original post. And I have already ranted on for long enough - I wouldn't mind if I was getting paid for this, but I'm not! :)



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