Should Pornography Be Banned To Protect Children?

[MysticSang'ha]

WHat porn uses a condom?

There are plenty of pornographic movies that have it's actors (loosely termed ) using condoms.

And for the record, I voted in the poll that some porn ought to be banned - and stay banned - for the reasons outlined by Phil (sexual violence, beastiality, child porn, etc.).

As it was so succinctly pointed out earlier - whatever is illegal behind the camera ought to be illegal in front of the camera.




Peace,
Mystic

 

[Smoke]

WHat porn uses a condom?

If someone wanted gay male porn where condoms are not used, they'd have to find some very old porn. In fact, there's something of a market for gay porn from the seventies and early eighties for that reason.

Porn should be banned altogether. I think it's disgusting, its for people who can't get the real thing

You probably just haven't seen the right porn yet, nor should you, at your age. There are two kinds of adults in the world: people who like porn, and liars.

 

[Don Penguinoini]

I have seen porn, its, OK(ISH) But, its, just not, needed,

 

[Pardus]

Chocolate isn't needed either.

 

[Smoke]

If you ask me, it's bad enough that they've banned lawn darts to protect the children.

 

[standing_alone]

If you ask me, it's bad enough that they've banned lawn darts to protect the children.

They've banned lawn darts?!

 

[Smoke]

They've banned lawn darts?!

It's illegal to sell them in the U.S. and Canada, but if you're lucky enough to have a set, you can probably get away with using it, until some busybody reports you.

 

[Don Penguinoini]

What is a lawn dart?

 

[Smoke]

What is a lawn dart?

Lawn darts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Sunstone]

What is a lawn dart?

It's a huge, fairly heavy dart that you try to toss into a hoop laid flat on your lawn.

 

[Don Penguinoini]

Its like tryign to stop fun.

 

[standing_alone]

It's illegal to sell them in the U.S. and Canada, but if you're lucky enough to have a set, you can probably get away with using it, until some busybody reports you.

Wow. I could've sworn I've seen some in a store or sales magazine within the past year, but I could be mistaken... Pretty ridiculous they'd ban them; seems like an item that a little responsible parenting/guardianship and age-appropriate indicators (like, say, "age 12 and/or competent and up") could accomplish better than a ban, but I suppose this is off-topic. I do think our society worries too much about children and coddles them too much, though.

 

[Don Penguinoini]

Your lucky you dont live in the U.K.

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

If we wanted to ban things to protect children I think a better place to start is the automobile. I wonder how that would sit with the right-wing puritans.

Actually that's true. With as many young people that die every year in the automobile--it is THE leading cause of death (source)--one wonders where our priorities are going.

My friend, being a mad animal he is, was insistent on showing me porn, so i saw it, quite funny if anything. I learnt something new! 42 is the magic number, and well, Japanese people love the Expresss Train. Am i messed up. Maybe it made me more intelligent? I was aware of what some sick people make, how i should not wind up like them? But porn is a nasty thing. It should be eradicated like a bug.

42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything! Never thought that porn could teach it to somebody, though.

This is a very difficult subject for me because I think children should be prevented from seeing porn that depicts sexual violence. On the other hand, history seems to indicate that when you start censoring things -- even things that probably deserve to be censored -- you end up with an authoritarian government censoring political speech. That's to say, censoring porn is often enough a precursor to censoring free speech.

Totally.

 

[Yerda]

Actually that's true. With as many young people that die every year in the automobile--it is THE leading cause of death (source)--one wonders where our priorities are going.

Not just in the car. It's the kids splattered across the front of them I had in mind.

 

[Panda]

Not just in the car. It's the kids splattered across the front of them I had in mind.

All 6th years in Scotland get a talk about driving safely. It was horrible. Every single person in that room had tears rolling down their cheeks. They were all 16/17 year old teenagers.

 

[Yerda]

All 6th years in Scotland get a talk about driving safely.

Do they? I left in in 5th year. That's good though, cause it's young boys who mostly do the reckless driving.

 

[Ciscokid]

Should all pornography be banned to protect children from viewing it? If so, why? If not, why not?

Should some kinds of pornography be banned to protect children from viewing it? If so, why? If not, why not?

No, however i think a separate domain space should be created to better control it. Porn sites should be forced to work within a www.porn.xxx [or something like that] naming convention so that one can more easily block those kinds of sites.

 

[Valjean]

You can't buy lawn darts but you can pick up a javelin in any sporting-goods shop. Pretty much a larger version of the same thing, seems to me.

Just a thought:
How would you expect an Amazonian tribe that customarily wore no clothing whatever to weigh in on this porn debate?

 

[Panda]

Just a thought:
How would you expect an Amazonian tribe that customarily wore no clothing whatever to weigh in on this porn debate?

They would probably laugh at us for being so stupid.