My parents did a good job keeping that stuff away from me until I was ready. Seems I should be able to do the same thing with little trouble - just homeschool, no tv, and actually know and approve of my kids’ friends. Not that hard.
Did your parents have to deal with YouTube? The world is a lot different now. Back when we were growing up, you had to seek out explicit entertainment, now it comes right into the house via cable TV and the Internet. When we were growing up, our parents could let us be by ourselves and pretty much knew we wouldn't be exposed to those things, today you have to watch your kids like a hawk.
“When” did you grow up?
It makes a difference.
Factor in the exponential leap forward nowadays in the proliferation and extent of general coarseness and sexually explicit mainstreaming..it IS THAT hard.