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 Googles image search engine words like pretty, beautiful, cute, or virtually any girls 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 childrens 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, todays parents need to address healthy sexuality and healthy sexual attitudes sooner rather than later in an age-appropriate manner.
Its 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.
Thats 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.
Is there somewhere specific for them to access porn other than at home?
Where would you suggest they access the porn?
Yes, yes....let’s have the gummint step in and fix what we can’t (or won’t)!!
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.
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.
Likely one of your kids friends won't have such a controlled environment.
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.
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.
www.covenanteyes.com
It’s very cheap to install and monthly fee.
Because they'd much rather control the likes of us.
(Please pause for thought...)
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.
Just tell them whatever they post stays FOREVER, or someone will snag it and post it somewhere later. No FB for me.

And here is some bestiality
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.
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.
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.
The Internet is a sewer and not for children. Sorry to say it, but its true.
Now days kids just make their own and send it around to their friends.
In the old days, teen boys would admire Playboy model pinups. Its a lot filthier and coarser today than when I was a kid.
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