For the Children!

[forsyth]

Okay, y'know, maybe this is really a stupid question. But it's been bugging me lately.

One of the givens whenever discussions about porn or information about sex or anything like that comes up is "We've got to protect the children! Keep this away from the children!" Honestly, why? What's the problem if kids see naked people, or even people having sex? Seriously, kids who haven't hit puberty won't care, they think kissing is gross, they wouldn't even believe descriptions of sex. And if kids have hit puberty, then they're going to be able to find pictures of naked people one of many places. And even if they couldn't...

So what? Why are people so set on keeping kids ignorant about sex? Ignorance doesn't protect people, and seeing somebody naked isn't going to scar a kid for life.

Yeah, I'm never getting elected to political office now. And if I ever have kids, maybe I'll get all paranoid about keeping them away from naked people too. But right now, I just don't get it.

Comments

[leticia.livejournal.com]

Now, see, I beg to differ. I suspect that the more you're exposed to 'plain simple normal' porn, the more you're going to go looking for taboo porn to scratch the same itch.
Becuase, really, you see a naked body in that position, you've seen 'em all. Certainly after four or five, you need new positions.

And porn doesn't encourage men to think of women as, you know, people, rather than sides of meat. The very nature of porn - stimulation entirely on peripheral physical features rather than, you know, personality or mind being involved at ALL - encourages further dehumanizing of the people involved - male OR female - and thus making the act of sex little more than the grunting of animals.

(And here's where I expect you to say "That's what it is, isn't it?" which will merely prove my point.)