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As someone who started watching porn when he was 10 and wishes he hadn't, this seems like great news to me. Hopefully sites like reddit follow suit
Some people have vices legal or not and there always will be folks who will supply it for a price.
P0rn is another form of addiction and should be treated as such.
>Motherboard confirmed, through a virtual private network, that Pornhub is showing people visiting the site from a Louisiana-based IP address a page that requires identity verification before entering. How'd they finangle that, every VPN I've used only let you select the country not the state?
As someone who started watching porn when he was 10 and wishes he hadn't, this seems like great news to me. Hopefully sites like reddit follow suit
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I started probably as a 12 year old but don't regret it. That being said, I think the main thing for teens or whoever to understand is that these are actors and this is purely an entertainment production. Most women are not interested in non-emotional, non-intimate sex (although a small minority is), but watching porn at a young age might give you the impression that it's the case.
> I think the main thing for teens or whoever to understand is that these are actors and this is purely an entertainment production Do you think that will be the case for the majority of preteens? Maybe once you become a teenager you can better understand, but the average age of first viewing porn is before the teenage years.
A lot of religious institutions tend to rely on shame and taboo to persuade children/teens from watching porn. But I don't think that's effective either, shame and suppression can cause other issues.
I think even outside of porn it's important to understand this about all forms of media, that most of it is thin and largely fake. Media addiction and letting it affect your perception of reality is a general problem, especially today in the on-demand era.
If anyone else has good recommendations, please chime in.
Next step - drinking verification can with the other hand.
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It would actually be great, I know freedom and whatnot but raising someone through the puberty ages is really tricky right now. The social media stuff is almost worse than the porn, because banning your kid from it is blocking them from the main way their peers communicate. So you are left with the choice of letting their undeveloped brains get barraged by social media, or making them the odd one out at school.
Pervasive government surveillance and censorship "for the children" is not great. Personally, I'd opt for teaching my kid to be the odd one out whenever it makes sense.
This isn't the same as installing cameras on every corner because kids are getting kidnapped, this is the same thing as saying cigarettes/drugs/alcohol should be for people 18+ when they are old enough to decide for themselves, especially given all those things (and social media) has known negative impacts on developing brains.
As someone who started watching porn when he was 10 and wishes he hadn't, this seems like great news to me. Hopefully sites like reddit follow suit
(Not trolling. I also started watching porn at a young age and I wonder if it had any negative effect on my development.)
The best solution here would be to force all adult sites to require a minimum monthly payment from a credit card. Blocks underage users and helps tackle addiction.
IMO the best approach is to ensure parents are technically competent and knowledgeable enough to be able to configure effective parental controls on all of their children's devices that are difficult to circumvent. E.g. iOS already has iCloud Lock which has proven to be difficult to bypass even with bootROM exploits and jailbreaks. Perhaps they should expand this level of protection to parental controls (if it isn't already).