70% of teens 'accidentally' find Internet porn, Kaiser study reports

Baptist Press ^ | 12/13/01 | Melanie Hunter & Matt Pyeatt

[Mulder]

So the other 30% find it on purpose? ;-)

[Blood of Tyrants]

While it is clearly possible to "accidentially" find porn sights (I once typed in "Ford truck parts" into a search engine and innocently clicked on a link that turned out to be a porn page), It is hard to NOT get a porn link when you type in such innocent sounding words as "toys" or "games" or similar words.

[truthandlife]

57 percent of teens surveyed believe porn exposure would have a "serious impact on kids under 18."

We are already seeing some sick acts of teens I believe because of porn on the internet. If you have a young daughter or son I would definitely be alert on where they go. When you see 6 year old kids raping 4 year old little girls you know that pornography has had a terrible impact on our culture.

[anniegetyourgun]

It's so sad....

[areafiftyone]

You don't even have to find it accidentally. Some free e-mail sites are constantly being bombarded with porn spam mail. I was getting so sick of it I had to give up my Hotmail because the block sender didn't do the job. Every time you turn around the porn sites change their e-mail address so your block sender doesn't register it.

[LN2Campy]

yeah, it's just not safe to type "succulent blondie" into your browser--what a shame...

[LN2Campy]

70% of teens 'accidentally' find Internet porn, Kaiser study reports

I though he abdicated a LONG time ago...

[tonycavanagh]

In the end I set my mail to exclusive only E Mails with addresses that match addresses in my Address book filter through

[Judith Anne]

Well, I am a granny with no interest in porn, I typed in what I thought was Drudge's web address, and got a porn site:

http://www.drudgereports.com The difference is one little "s" --so I can believe that kids find it by accident.

[Aquinasfan]

And 100% find it with a little help from their friends. Sad.

[ctdonath2]

Teen boys find such material "accidentally on purpose".

[Lorraine]

My son (age 18) accidently found porn this week. He typed in the name of a place that and his fraternity brothers frequent, and it just so happened that there was a porn site with the same name. I was sitting next to him when it happened and we had a devil of a time closing all the little pop up windows that opened up. We were both embarrassed.

[LN2Campy]

He typed in the name of a place that and his fraternity brothers frequent, and it just so happened that there was a porn site with the same name

Maybe the boys gotta stop hanging out at "Succulent Suzie's House O'Sluts", then!!

[mel]

Here in Memphis we have the Pink Palace Museum which has a IMAX theatre. I wanted to look up show times with my daughter for the Mt. Everest movie, I typed in Pink Palce and went directly to a porn site. Luckily, I don't think she saw it. However, I kept trying to click off and it kept reappearing...why do these pictures keep coming back when I am directing it to something else? I was reading about the trashy Britney Spears. There was a link to the explanation of a camel toe, when I went to that it was a porn site and some of that kept coming back also. Why is that?

[OK]

Anyone who websurfs for a while discovers that porn sites have set up dummy domain names that are similar to sites that young people might type incorrectly. I was on the computer with my 6 year old trying to find the Battlebots website, and pulled up a porn site with that name.

[Libertarian_4_eva]

My son (age 18) accidently found porn this week. He typed in the name of a place that and his fraternity brothers frequent, and it just so happened that there was a porn site with the same name. I was sitting next to him when it happened and we had a devil of a time closing all the little pop up windows that opened up. We were both embarrassed.

Has your son ever seen a penis, vagina or breasts? Grow up its only skin. The people who most of the time want to ban porn have problems controlling themselfs so they have to get rid of it all because they have problems.

[1Old Pro]

A friend of mine was surprised what the search engine turned up as he was looking for sporting goods from "Dick's" sporting goods.