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Are Your Children Accessing Porn in Your Home?
Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2011 | Janice Shaw Crouse

Posted on 01/01/2011 9:39:38 AM PST by Kaslin

The average age of first exposure to Internet pornography is eleven years old; often because of stumbling onto sites while doing homework. Kids searching “White House” can easily end up typing “com” instead of “gov” and end up at a porn site. Type into Google’s image search engine words like “pretty,” “beautiful,” “cute,” or virtually any girl’s name, and if the “safe search filter” is not properly activated many of the images that come up are sexually explicit in the extreme. Pornographers purchase domain names knowing that web surfers can unintentionally end up at their site. A child typing in a word like “toys” or a popular children’s character like “Pokémon” or “Beanie Babies” can be misdirected to a porn site. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that 70 percent of teenagers have accidentally come across pornography on the web.

Most parents would be shocked to learn the statistics about Internet porn. GOOD magazine provides some staggering information about the pornography industry:

• 12 percent of all Internet sites are pornography • 260 new porn sites go online daily • every second, nearly 30,000 Internet users are viewing porn • 35 percent of all Internet downloads are porn

Such statistics lend urgency to the recommendation that parents teach their children online safety in the same way that they approach other childhood danger areas. A British study indicates that teenagers spend an average of thirty-one hours a week online and nearly two hours a week looking at pornography. The implications for their intellectual and emotional well-being should not to be taken lightly. One in four teenagers said that they regularly communicated with strangers online but considered it harmless. TopTenReviews.com reveals that nearly 90 percent of sexual solicitations of youth were made in chat rooms. The implications of these facts are a cause for concern for any thinking person. Obviously, today’s parents need to address healthy sexuality and healthy sexual attitudes sooner rather than later in an age-appropriate manner.

It’s bad enough for children to stumble across pornography on the screen of their cell phone or computer. Even worse is that behind every pornographic image of a child on the more than 100,000 child pornography websites, there is a real child who is being personally violated and commercially exploited, often in horrific and dehumanizing ways. These child victims are exploited over and over again as their images are forever cast out into cyberspace to be downloaded and traded by child pornographers every day through the thousands of child porn Internet sites.

These developments are not merely another increase in a continuum. By the mid-1980s, child porn was almost completely eradicated; it was too difficult and expensive to deliver and very risky to produce or purchase. Back then, peddlers and purchasers of child pornography had to know someone to make the connection to receive pornography, usually in a brown paper envelope. With the advent of the Internet, however, the porn problem re-emerged and exploded exponentially. With a click of the mouse, child pornography is available now from any computer. In addition, the continuing quest for something new and different drives those in the grip of pornography to demand images of younger and younger children and images that are more and more graphic and violent. Some experts believe that there is a tipping point at which those who engage in what they call “online sexual deviancy” decide to act out what they have seen and, thus, become a danger to the children around them. We know that those who harm children are usually adults whom the child knows well — an uncle, cousin, neighbor, or teacher. We also know that many who access child pornography are what the experts call “explorers,” meaning that they got started viewing child pornography because of the easy access. These “explorers” spend many hours and thousands of dollars surfing child porn websites.

Peer-to-peer contacts are another avenue for transmitting and receiving child pornography. An article in the Buffalo News last year revealed that at least half of the child pornography produced is traded for free. The traders download free images off the Internet and then barter them to obtain other images. This development is very troubling to authorities and to parents because it increases the demand for and supply of pornographic images among the “explorers.” Child molesters take pornographic photographs or video images of family members or neighborhood children and then trade those images. Amazingly, officials at the CyberTipline estimate that 60 to 70 percent of the child porn reports they receive involve this type of activity. Undercover police officers in eighteen countries scoured online sites for free child pornography in chat rooms, news groups, bulletin boards, and Internet networks. They found that the most activity was in the United States, which accounted for more than one-third of the proposed transactions.

That’s just what we needed. Instead of America, the home of the free and brave, we now have the distinction of being the land of the porn addicted, cowardly child sex slavers.


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To: Kaslin
Are Your Children Accessing Porn in Your Home?

Is there somewhere specific for them to access porn other than at home?

Where would you suggest they access the porn?

21 posted on 01/01/2011 10:14:33 AM PST by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: WVNan

Yes, yes....let’s have the gummint step in and fix what we can’t (or won’t)!!


22 posted on 01/01/2011 10:16:51 AM PST by Logic n' Reason ("It's the church I left, not the belief.")
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Many years ago, when I watched little kids at the “Y”, I’d wind up wiping their butts. Wouldn’t do it now if they paid me double. Kids lie....and they can be primed to say just about anything.


23 posted on 01/01/2011 10:19:16 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: taxcontrol

That’s what we do. If they take it into their room, they are limited to what websites they can visit.

Plus, the kids know my husband is very good with computers, and we tell them that we are tracking everything they do.

(We can, but the threat keeps them okay.)

I’m not realy worried about porn. The problem I have is facebook and chat. Ughh! My kids spend way too much time on those sites.


24 posted on 01/01/2011 10:20:06 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: luckystarmom
That’s what we do. If they take it into their room, they are limited to what websites they can visit. Plus, the kids know my husband is very good with computers, and we tell them that we are tracking everything they do.

Likely one of your kids friends won't have such a controlled environment.

25 posted on 01/01/2011 10:31:42 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: luckystarmom
I’m not realy worried about porn. The problem I have is facebook and chat. Ughh! My kids spend way too much time on those sites.

Word to the wise - kids handle FB better than parents/grandparents! I'm 53, and in the past year or so, a bunch of people I grew up with have shown up there. I swear, everybody's got some kind of midlife crisis going on and some people are on there 24/7. All of a sudden it goes from, "How long has it been?" to some woman pouring her heart out about her dirtbag husband. It's really unhealthy for married middle-agers, IMHO.

26 posted on 01/01/2011 10:32:09 AM PST by Forgotten Amendments (I'd rather be Plaxico Burress than Sean Taylor)
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To: luckystarmom
Keeping them from doing something "dumb" is hard. Between cell phones and other gadgets, there's a huge exchange of "trash".

My 47 YEAR OLD daughter posted a picture to me. Hardly flattering to her. Told her I put it on facebook. She went nuts.

I then told her I didn't but it was a warning....TO HER AND HER CHILDREN....not to send pictures that may be misconstrued.

27 posted on 01/01/2011 10:33:11 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin

www.covenanteyes.com

It’s very cheap to install and monthly fee.


28 posted on 01/01/2011 10:33:38 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: WVNan
Why can’t we have some porn control by the FCC by making it encripted access?

Because they'd much rather control the likes of us.

(Please pause for thought...)

29 posted on 01/01/2011 10:46:54 AM PST by danielmryan
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To: WVNan
For years pornagraphic material was not accessible to children although it existed. Magazines were behind the counter or hidden. Why can’t we have some porn control by the FCC by making it encripted access? There are some things that ought not be out there where children can’t avoid them.

Really? Thats not the world I rmember. Magazines were on the shelf of convenience stores, right there where we boys could sneak a peek. No plastic wrapper or anything. And everyone had friends whose dad/older brother had a stash of magazines to drool over.

30 posted on 01/01/2011 10:48:38 AM PST by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: luckystarmom
The problem I have is facebook and chat.

Just tell them whatever they post stays FOREVER, or someone will snag it and post it somewhere later. No FB for me.

31 posted on 01/01/2011 10:52:16 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (<img src=http://www.rbent.com/smilies/popcornsmilie.gif> )
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To: Beagle8U
Here's some child porn, if it will help.

And here is some bestiality


32 posted on 01/01/2011 10:52:30 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Kaslin

Limit your kids’ computer use and give them limited accounts backed up by parental filtering software.

And check to see what they view when they do go online.


33 posted on 01/01/2011 10:58:21 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Kaslin

Limit your kids’ computer use and give them limited accounts backed up by parental filtering software.

And check to see what they view when they do go online.


34 posted on 01/01/2011 10:58:42 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: jdub
The average age of first exposure to Internet pornography is eleven years old

That's just about the age it's always been, even before Algore invented the interweb thingy.

...70 percent of teenagers have accidentally come across pornography on the web.

Yah. Right. Accidentally.

Thats not the world I rmember.

Me neither.

If you wanted to see some porn all you had to do was walk into the head at the local wrench or machine shop.

35 posted on 01/01/2011 11:02:15 AM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: goldstategop
Actually, just limit their Internet use. My kid is not allowed on the Internet without strict supervision.

The Internet is a sewer and not for children. Sorry to say it, but its true.

36 posted on 01/01/2011 11:07:57 AM PST by Carbonsteel
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To: goldstategop
Home may be the least of the worries
gunna have to run herd on their Ipads\Blackberrys\Droids etc...course, it's tuff to stop ‘em from sex-ting.
37 posted on 01/01/2011 11:12:53 AM PST by stylin19a
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To: Sacajaweau
Geez...If they want to view it, they’ll find a way.

Now days kids just make their own and send it around to their friends.

38 posted on 01/01/2011 11:16:08 AM PST by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: seowulf

In the old days, teen boys would admire Playboy model pinups. Its a lot filthier and coarser today than when I was a kid.


39 posted on 01/01/2011 11:24:12 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Kaslin
It's pretty easy to find on FIOS
40 posted on 01/01/2011 11:26:23 AM PST by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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