[Texan5]

I don’t see what the problem is with people listening to what they like-I don’t like rap, but I don’t care if someone else does-I like heavy metal and hard rock, but I don’t expect to be ragged on for listening to it...

[SamAdams76]

What's ironic is that when I was growing up, my parents never tried to censor anything from me. In fact, my father even showed me where he kept his Playboy magazines when I was about 12 years old (I'd go to jail for that today). I grew up watching, listening to and reading whatever I wanted. My mother believed that so long as I was reading something, it was a good thing. Didn't matter if it was MAD Magazine or some trashy sexually explicit dime-store novel.

Yet I grew up to be rather conservative. Never took drugs and didn't have sex until I was married. I also almost never curse, don't keep pornography of any kind in the house and I'm very selective about what is shown on my television. No video games of any kind either. If my sons wanted to watch trashy TV or play Nintendo, they had to go over somebody else's house.

Yet many kids I grew up with, who had helicopter parents forbidding them to do this and to do that grew up to have all sorts of issues.

Makes me wonder whether all this censorship makes any difference at all.