FYI, ping!
Children and sex? Well if you had children that should answer that question.
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SCREEEEECH! I stopped reading right there. Where were her parents to deal with this? What was done?
The thing about pornography is that it isn’t always hiding in shawdowy corners of the internet or on the pay-per-view channels on cable.
Anymore it’s being taught in public school classroms under the guise of ‘curriculum’ or else it’s hiding in plain sight on network television in the form of innuendoes and jokes on programs like “Two Broke Girls”, “2.5 Men”, and your local news.
It comes in the form of women’s maganizes that come with headlines like: “Know your G-spot!” and “Things to drive your man crazy in bed!”
And you can’t even go to Costco anymore without seeing “50 Shades of Gray” on their bookshelves.
Try avoiding it anymore. It’s impossible.
And the author is dead right that it has a corrupting influence. Just a few years ago I was contemplating having a baby without having a marriage and it seemed an acceptable idea at the time. I’d been abused at 16 just like the author and that left me damaged and given my family wasn’t all into values anyway it’s a wonder I didn’t go off the rails.
What’s funny with me is I accidentally made some good choices for the wrong reasons and it all worked out for the best.
What’s sad are the millions of people who can’t say the same.
“We don’t have any children yet”
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Yet somehow she’s an expert on how to raise them. Fat chance.
The problem with Google Search is a real one. I used to search there to find images for my power point presentations. No matter what word is used for searching...one can almost always see disgusting pornographic images turn up as a result.
I now use Google to search for images only as a LAST resort.
1. “a youth pastor who sexually abused me during my junior year of high school”
2. “I didn’t know what certain words meant or if what the youth pastor was doing to me was good or bad”
3. “I was too afraid to ask.”
Uh, I think THOSE are the three things that were the real problem, namely: sexual abuse by a “religious” figure, ignorance of the basic facts of life a junior in high school should have been taught but wasn’t, and being raised in an environment of fear, ignormance and a lack of adult support that fostered the environment for the first two items to occur.
It wasn’t the Internet and “porn” that caused these problems, it was because adults were not doing their jobs to educate and protect their children from REAL WORLD horrors.
There’s a simple solution to all this: don’t ever give your child a smartphone. And limit internet usage at home with filters. If you want your kids to be safe get them a Net10 or Tracfone that can’t send image texts.
I need to do a major pingathon.