Do you think pornography is acceptable?

[peteyt]

I came into this post quite late (no pun intended) so haven't seen all the replies. However the original poster touches on something interesting. 10 year old's watching porn.

If your saying we should ban porn because people too young are seeing it then shouldn't we be banning alcohol, smoking and all adult rated films (including non porn films).

I don't even think I had a computer at 10, now everyone seems to (Computers where far more expensive and bulky back then). However if we did have one, with the internet, I'm sure I'd have been monitored to a certain degree. It's like with anything, if the young are doing stuff they shouldn't their parents have a responsibility to try and stop them. Why should we suffer because they can't stop them.

The interesting thing is, correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of males in relationships still seem to watch porn. Some partners can find this problematic, but a lot just seem at least in today's age to feel its natural and nothing to worry about as everyone is doing it and its not like they are having an actual affair.

My only concern with porn as I think a few people have mentioned is it often isn't regulated, as in online porn. A lot of sites allow users to upload content and so content. We all know how easy it is for some girls to put on some make up on and get into a club/bar etc and get served alcohol so the chances are a lot of apparently legal porn is illegal.

Does anyone know the definition of child porn. I heard there's different classes. Obviously young young stuff would be at the top but for things borderline legal I'm not too sure. I did hear someone did get done for watching what he thought was legal porn, but it's one of those rumours that you never know is true.

[chantellehugs]

I was watching The Sex Education show a while back and the woman made a point about porn not showing love or a loving relationship. Therefore if a child was to watch porn it might impact on how they view relationships and love. Having said that, porn was not made for children, adults are able to make their own choices on what they deem as a good relationship, etc.
By all means ban children from watching porn, when I have kids I'll be making sure the filter on the computer is working properly, but there's no reason to ban adults from watching porn. Wouldn't you much rather a crazy sex-driven person acted out their fantasies in front of their computer rather than attacking someone on the street...?

[Jake]

Banned.. Most people in the world watch porn or have watched porn. Nowadays sex scenes in movies is classed as "porn"

Tbh 99% of people pleasure themselves in their lifetime. Watching something to help it is easier, Now your saying wait for a partner? Right so people who are unfortunate to not have a partner in their lifetime what are they supposed to do? They never get the experience of seeing what someone else looks like naked, what sex looks like.
And the religious point of view, people who don't watch porn or whatever they do (not religious but sure theres something out there like that) they dont have to watch it.. They can go through life not seeing a porn clip.

And as i agree more male people talk about watching porn, it doesnt mean women don't, hell ive had a few girlfriends who ive walked in on watching porn. And most of the women at work talk about it more than men

Lets face it, everyone watches porn in their lifetime so why ban something which brings in a hell of a lot of money each year just by essentially "having fun"

Stupid thread imho, ofcourse porn is acceptable.

[HotelUser]

If a male tells you he doesn't watch porn he's probably not telling you the truth. If you're a girl who thinks watching porn is gross well I have news for you, every boy you've spoken to who's older than 12 looks at it, it's life!

In our society it's a right of passage for our gender and we all do or have in the past.

The only downside to this is that some folks aren't as good as hiding it as others, and when you throw the word family into this pot it's not one I want to be near.