They do have access to it.

Yep. My point is that kids are exposed to (often violent) porn and we don’t know what the consequences of that might be so making claims like *porn is harmless* without having anything to back it up is stupid at best and dangerous at worst.

Things in porn are happening in real life. Those actions are filmed by a camera. How is it in any way comparable to fairy tales who feature things like witches, fairies, ogres, etc?

Do you have a point?

Is it though? I don’t mind porn once in awhile but I looked at a free site (pornhub?) the other day and the majority of it was professional but almost all of it was fairly rough, definitely not showing women in the best light. It kinda grosses me out tbh. And they look so young! I’ll stick to dirty stories but I can’t…

That kind of really, really low blow–mocking a woman with the possibility that she’s had some kind of traumatic sexual experience–isn’t okay and isn’t accepted around here.

Where did you get this statistic that the “vast majority” of pornography is fully consensual (i.e. free of coercion by any means) and safe?

Again, porn not being for kids doesn’t matter. Kids still watch it. How do you deny them access especially now when most kids have smartphones?

Define “children”. According to this graphic from sister site Gizmodo, the average age at which people first see pornography is 11. Do you consider an 11 year old a child?

Why just worry about boys? Women watching porn would also theoretically be internalized to believe that they were lesser, etc.

What does “consensual and safe” porn mean?

Genuine question, do you think that boys can be both raised to respect all women and be raised on porn at the same time?

Yeah, I can’t believe she’d treat a friend who she disagrees with on an issue w/ respect instead of throwing him under the bus.

Why shouldn’t she be friends with a chicken fucker, though? When you love someone you don’t love them for being perfect. You love them for being them. You don’t have any asshole friends or family?

I don’t see how she’s dancing around anything. She and Kurt are friends, denounced his views and fired him nonetheless, and explained that she thinks focus on him over rape is counterproductive.

It really is something, isn’t it? “Shithole” Brazil and such. It couldn’t possibly be that these jerks were lying. Nope. It’s particularly odd because many of the same people defending Lochte are the ones who think protected athletes in NCAA/NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL are garbage and that bro culture should die. Put a U.S.…

I don’t think it comes off as petty at all. Ryan Lochte accused random men of Brazil as robbing him “with a gun pointed directly at his head” and ran with that narrative for days, globally. He attempted to tarnish an entire nation for his own actions thinking he would be believed. The other three kept up that…

I am so with you.

Actually, they would. Rio has a special police force to deal with tourist crime already, and there is a special Olympic police force that has resources from our feds and from Interpol and 8 other international police going on. They would most definitely talk to any Olympian involved in a crime.

Exactly. Just days before this all went down ESPN did a documentary (mockumentary?) about Lochte. He proudly showed off all his trappings of wealth. The gold grill on his Rolls Royce, the Range Rover with his monogram etched in to the seats, his ugly mansion, etc. Dude couldn’t possibly come off as more of an utter…