The mammy character was popular well into the 90s in telenovelas. I still watch this.

“Most porn is produce by professionals.” This isn’t true. Most porn that people watch online wasn’t produced in a studio, by film industry professionals. It is true that there is more studio produced porn than ever before. But now that everyone has high quality digital cameras, and can purchase high quality editing…

There is no way to access consensually filmed porn. Maybe 90% of filmed porn is consensual. But you can’t tell whether what you’re watching falls into that, or the other category. Yeah, the actress you’re watching might be some plucky kid from nowhere Idaho who decided that this was a better option than commuting 40…

It’s called google bro.

As opposed to their bodies.

“Again, how they choose to cultivate their interests really isn’t anyone else’s business.”

I’m the anti porn poster above, and even I agree with this. Kids googling their porn is still better than kids asking for porn from their mothers. Not ok. Not ok. Not ok.

I’m the original anti-porn OP. And even I find this so creepy that I hope this kid is doing his own thing and watching porn.

I hope to God your son is lying to your face. Otherwise he has no privacy.

I literally began my OP by saying that I didn’t agree with this law. It’s a stupid law. It won’t work. I get it. Everyone gets it.

“What you want is to dictate what sources people are allowed to use for cultivation tastes...”

“There are plenty of movies where the stunt men are actually punching each other, albeit gently.” This is an obscene comparison.

I’ve already said that I don’t support this particular RI law. So I don’t know what you’re going on about.

Not exactly. Because despite what some teenagers believe, learning to drive and being a driver isn’t an obligatory or inherent part of the human experience. It’s optional, on a biological if not a practical level. So it’s not a betrayal of children that we sell them a thin selection of violent car movies.

I don’t have children. I just care because being a grownup means you take care of children and don’t exploit them. Even if you don’t have them. Even if you don’t like them. But I don’t expect anyone who uses porn to get that because you’re using a product that uses adolescents as fodder.

Frankly... yes. Age of consent laws regard sexual activity. Sexual activity is natural, and inherently a part of adolescents’ lives. So it doesn’t make sense to criminalize sexual activity, especially, between adolescents.

Exactly. On the one hand, thank God kids have access to information: what looks like what, disease, birth control, where and how to get an abortion.

““Porn is addictive and psychologically harmful” is the Intelligent Design of the moral panic crowd.”

Yeah. I get that there are problems with this law and RI. I’m just saying, in theory, I’m not against regulating industry access to children. I feel the same way about the food industry, tobacco and alcohol. Not to mention the credit industry.

The sex in porn is real. It has all of the same ramifications that it would have if the camera wasn’t rolling. A urinary tract infection, or an anal fissure isn’t any less real because it was incurred on film.