News Court strikes down Internet porn law

[denverdoc]

Historically women would have babies as young as age 12; 15 would be more usual, and 18 is like "jesus what the hell is she waiting for? serpents in her vagina!"
If you're trying to stop people under the age of 18 from thinking about sex, you're basically fighting a battle against nature itself, and that's a battle humans can't possibly win.


You're exactly right. Kids need to be educated on things like safe sex, pregnancy, and STDs. Ironically it's the bible-thumpers fighting against porn who also encourage abstinence-only educated in schools which doesn't teach any of the three things listed above.


It's a grey area. Although kids will not listen to your rules, they will at least understand that what they are doing is somehow seen as wrong, in your opinion. If you're a reasonable parent who at least has a somewhat pleasant relationship (the kid will tell you 1% of everything as opposed to telling you absolutely nothing), they might understand why you don't want them to watch porn, but they'll do it anyway. If you're one hard ass parents that dictates every aspect of their life, they will watch it just to be different from you, and they'll grow up thinking that porn is right and you are wrong. Authoritarian parenting often leads to really screwed up kids. Likewise, overly lax parenting leads to the same screwed up kids.

The more rules you try to put on kids, the more they will try to break those rules. If you don't have any rules, the kids have no boundries and they turn into those crackheads who sleep at the bus station. If you have too many rules, they'll rebel against everything you do, even the good parts, and they'll also turn into crackheads.

Now that's a good parent.

 

[Mallignamius]

Historically women would have babies as young as age 12; 15 would be more usual, and 18 is like "jesus what the hell is she waiting for? serpents in her vagina!"
If you're trying to stop people under the age of 18 from thinking about sex, you're basically fighting a battle against nature itself, and that's a battle humans can't possibly win.

Let me rephrase that. Kids shouldn't be contemplating having sex. Of course they're going to think about it. If a parent is going to have healthy discussions about sex, then they need to think about those discussions. Hopefully, as you expressed, those discussions and impressions will be positive, though realistic and informed.