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> This is the part I don't understand, what are those worries?

Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex is. If a kid who's just beginning to get curious about sex stumbles on hard-core BDSM/rape fantasy sites, it's probably going to have some sort of impact. (I picked an obvious bad-case scenario, I'm not saying it's always like this, or that it'll certainly traumatize them, etc., etc. I just wouldn't want my kid's first experience with sex to be a video of a gagged woman being whipped.)

> And is not like porn randomly plays itself in the browser, you have to use explicit sexual words for Google to respond with links to porn sites.

I was going to come up with an example where little Billy is searching for his uncle Dick, but most of the results are about Dick Cheney, which is arguably more frightening than pornography.

> Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex.

That is certainly not the opinion of the masses because they don't want kids to see porn even years after they have been educated about sex.

If you need to hide something is gore, sites like Reddit are full of it and contrary as porn it can be a little bit traumatic.

I'd wager that the people who don't want 17 year olds having access to porn are probably the same ones who don't really want sex education, either, aside from the "On your wedding night, God will let you know what to do" speech.

If your line of through were true there would be sites famous among parents for their unexaggerated normal porn videos, so when you have the talk about how normal sex is you would also mention that the desire for watching other people doing it is also normal and you would mention those porn sites. Well, that is never the case; they just teach you about sex and then they keep pretending that you don't want to access stimulating content.

I remember the BBC (or Ch4) made a set of documentaries a few years back that showed people having actual sex for educational purposes. I can't remember the name.

Most porn is certainly made for commercial rather than educational purposes though and idealized stuff with giant penises and huge cumshots seems to be more commercially successful.

Effectively it's more about fantasy and than reality.

I think that used to be called "Playboy", except it was on paper for some reason, and traditionally the father would give one to his son.

Then there are also the more extreme cases of family members renting prostitutes for young men, but I think that was much less common (though it still happens.)

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