Mummy, I want to be a porn star

The Sunday Times - Review ^ | September 18, 2005 | Kira Cochrane

[Melissa 24]

Even Jenna Jameson was stunned while on her book tour when young teenage girls were coming to her to tell her she was their role model.

[Tax-chick]

Then there was beer in the office and at lunchtime we all automatically ordered a bottle of wine rather than sparkling water. If alcohol were that available we’d all start drinking more and any stigma would gradually disappear.

Sounds like Germany, according to my father and brother ... and while beer for breakfast is not my cup of coffee, it's not exactly a moral trauma.

[bigfootbob]

Ummm beer & corn flakes

[DoughtyOne]

I'm for free speach, and that means porn too. What appauls me is that these folks aren't just happy to appeal to adults. They don't seem to mind at all that their work winds up in he hands of kids. That's were I draw the line. Course with some of today's parents, how are you going to prevent that?

It's a real problem and I don't have and answer for it.

[Tax-chick]

Nutritious!

[Jimmy Valentine]

Was she a little "down in the mouth" about it? Or, maybe she just put it behind her?

Drum roll, cymbal crash!

[JNL]

It's easy at my end. Watch what your kid does on-line (keyloggers work), don't watch pornography or buy porn mags that the little one can find. (I've never understood either myself)

I'm all for freedom of the press and what happens between consenting adults is not my business, it is my business when it comes into my house.

My wife and I have made it clear to our young one that porn is out of the mainsteam and he accepts that. I'm sure he will look it up but by talking about it openly on honestly, it's worked so far.

[Prime Choice]

beer & corn flakes

...because breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

[redpoll]

Just another sign that our society is sinking into decadence, as if we really needed another sign. Of course porn is mainstream. Most of the high school students I teach hint broadly that they are familiar with the material - not that I talk about directly, since it would be very inappropriate, but when an inadvertant double-entre comes up in discussion, the snickers begin. One time I went to home visit and saw preschoolers watching a porn video on the television under the lack of supervision of the parents. For the teachers, a fair number don't care. We even had a librarian who used to e-mail hardcore porn on the school server to the select dozens of fellow school district employees - and when he received a complaint, the persons making the complaint were vilified and shunned. He continued to send the porn right up until his departure, and I believe he was still doing it from his new job in another school district, where he taught second grade. I keep thinking we have hit bottom when I discover more room down below.

[Prime Choice]

As a consultant, I've taken on a few home-based cases after parents discover porn in their web browser caches. Most are certain that it's their sons, but much of the time it turns out to be their daughters who are downloading the porn.

Me, I hope my kids never get exposed to that stuff. But in the final analysis, I'd rather catch my kid surfing porn than surfing Demoncratic Underground.

[Last Dakotan]

Most women also believe that their husbands would never use porn but this could be a misconception, too.

Ya think?

[DoughtyOne]

Your actions are good IMO. Parents shouldn't set bad examples when it comes to certain issues. We'll be bad enough examples on other things without meaning to be.

I enjoyed a good beer once in while, but I don't think my kids saw me take a drink more than a couple of times when they were young.

[cripplecreek]

I used to irritate the heck out of my guidance/career councellor in school when I told him that I wanted to be a pornographer. I was a smarta$$ kid.

[Last Dakotan]

Furthermore, I believe many women who use sex (or rather the denial of it) in a relationship are surprised to find out that their husbands turn to porn.

In reality, how hard can it be for a wife's loving touch to compete with a cold flickering image on a video screen?

[JNL]

Yeah it's a firm belief in monkey see monkey do. The one really bad habit I have is I smoke (outside) and the wife has set New Years as the end of that (oh well....)

[Melissa 24]

Maybe if parents watched what their kids were doing online...


Nah, that's asking too much.

[JudgemAll]

Most are certain that it's their sons, but much of the time it turns out to be their daughters who are downloading the porn.

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Yep. I was too surprized to see girls much more into the sick chat rooms than guys at the local appartment semi-public computer lab. They keep screaming "how disgusting" but keep hollering about it.

Inquiring minds want to understand feminist hypocrisy in this subject. Women seem to have a huge continuous identity crisis problem, imo.

What does the Bible say? The Bible says the flesh is weak and the spirit strong. Those attracted by the flesh judge by the flesh. Those living in the spirit seek to destroy gods and demons of this world while saving lives, and not the opposite. The distinction and distincting in truth and repent gets the unholy angry.

[JudgemAll]

Most are certain that it's their sons, but much of the time it turns out to be their daughters who are downloading the porn.

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Yep. I was too surprized to see girls much more into the sick chat rooms than guys at the local appartment semi-public computer lab. They keep screaming "how disgusting" but keep hollering about it.

Inquiring minds want to understand feminist hypocrisy in this subject. Women seem to have a huge continuous identity crisis problem, imo.

What does the Bible say? The Bible says the flesh is weak and the spirit strong. Those attracted by the flesh judge by the flesh. Those living in the spirit seek to destroy gods and demons of this world while saving lives, and not the opposite. The distinction and distincting in truth and repent gets the unholy angry.

[DoughtyOne]

Well hopefully that will mean you'll get to see the great-grandkids. Best of luck to you.