Artman
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The question of this thread was, "Why can't we ban porn?"
The USA discovered, when they tried to ban alchohol, that banning it does not make it go away, it just makes it more possible for illegal sources to make money from it and make it harder to regulate. Bootleggers and speakeasies still sold alcohol, they could just charge more for it because it wasn't legal. Criminals love it when a popular item is banned.
As for children being exposed to it, there are several recommended methods to limiting this possibility:
Place the computer in a high traffic area of the home, dining room, kitchen, family room, etc. not in the child's room.
Teach them what is right. Explain (at their level) why porn can be wrong (can exploit the participants, can involve underage participants, can over time make a person jaded to sex, plays on a weakness (addiction) in some people, etc)
Look at the computer with them. (This can't be done all of the time, but give them examples of where to surf.)
Check their history file and see where they do surf. (Most kids will know ways to get rid of the evidence, but maybe they will forget once or twice and you can catch them. Also, kids don't have rights as far as computer privacy. An adult needs to be responsible for their actions until they are old enough to know better.)
Now, as for TV. If parents paid attention to what their kids were watching on TV then sex could be shown on TV, just don't let the kids watch that show. Then porn sites would die off naturally, just like adult book stores died off when porn became prevailent on the internet.
The USA discovered, when they tried to ban alchohol, that banning it does not make it go away, it just makes it more possible for illegal sources to make money from it and make it harder to regulate. Bootleggers and speakeasies still sold alcohol, they could just charge more for it because it wasn't legal. Criminals love it when a popular item is banned.
As for children being exposed to it, there are several recommended methods to limiting this possibility:
Place the computer in a high traffic area of the home, dining room, kitchen, family room, etc. not in the child's room.
Teach them what is right. Explain (at their level) why porn can be wrong (can exploit the participants, can involve underage participants, can over time make a person jaded to sex, plays on a weakness (addiction) in some people, etc)
Look at the computer with them. (This can't be done all of the time, but give them examples of where to surf.)
Check their history file and see where they do surf. (Most kids will know ways to get rid of the evidence, but maybe they will forget once or twice and you can catch them. Also, kids don't have rights as far as computer privacy. An adult needs to be responsible for their actions until they are old enough to know better.)
Now, as for TV. If parents paid attention to what their kids were watching on TV then sex could be shown on TV, just don't let the kids watch that show. Then porn sites would die off naturally, just like adult book stores died off when porn became prevailent on the internet.