[[NSFW]] Yahoo answerers think its ok for a 11 year old boy to watch porn? Am I reading this right?

Fine with me.

Why is it that you think it’s wrong?

I wouldn’t support his choice to watch porn. But I wouldn’t think he deserves to be punished or anything for his curiosity.

She’s kind of a dumb parent in an era where smart parents have trouble keeping tabs on everything. It’s not the kid’s fault, especially since rational judgement doesn’t hold dominion in this area in comparison to hardwiring—even among most adults.

She didn’t know what she didn’t know and took it out on her kid.

@Sarcasm Never said it was wrong. just shocking. I’m still “innocent.’ :P

@Everest well how old are you? Could you be this 11 year old boy?

@Violet Yeah game time! 1 digit. :P

Depends on the porn. There’s nothing wrong, in my opinion, with an 11 year old being curious about what actually happens with those bits down there and looking for answers on DVD or the interwebs or what have you.
But, a lot of porn features women as submissives and as objects to be used, Eleven year olds are impressionable, and I think it would be easy for a child to see those images and view it as healthy. Adults can do as they will, as long as it’s consensual. I don’t think it’s ok for a child to see a lot of what goes on in porn.

I say that nobody has any business watching porn.

@Nullo why?

I say that nobody has any business watching giraffes.

OBEY

Here we go! Damn it all! U people always have to start a mocking argument unrelated to the question!

I’ll count my answers now and call it quits. personal attacks/religion here we come! BLAST IT ALL.

@Everest Chill out there. Maybe it’s about to turn into a neat discussion about the virtues of porn, which is totally related to the question.

@Everest fluther is all about conversation, if you don’t like it, go back to Yahoo Answers

Wow the one eyed lady is bothered. Oh! She edited her anssssswer to look better. Dude, that is so so fake. :P

@Violet
I’m too tired right now to provide you with an original answer, so here’s a canned one instead.

Should we call the waaaaambulance?

@Nullo you didn’t have find me an article, but thank you.
@kevbo ah ha ha ha!!!

@Everest this may be too big of a word for you, but you are a hypocrite

Well for controll freak parent’s hope your kid dowsn’t figure out InPrivate browsing.

[Mod says:] Please stick to the original topic. Thanks.

The kid did nothing unnatural The mother did nothing unnatural. She is supposed to tell him to turn off the smut. He is going to turn it on again when she goes to bed. That’s just the natural order of things. People sympathize because everyone is human and sympathizes with embarrassing situations and feelings about sex. It is human. But none of that was wrong or weird by either party. It happened the way things usually would happen. Weird would be if she wanted to sit down and watch it with him.I wouldn’t make a big deal out of it. I’d just tell him to turn off the smut and go to bed fully expecting him to turn it back on. I imagine that is how it usually happens.

Myself, I try not to violate the law, with one upcoming exception I have a date with. SO since most porn sites say you have to be 18 to enter my official response is parental authorities will have to tell you to abide by said rules and laws. Sometimes you get the “official” answer with a wink and a nod though if you know what I mean. Follow your heart, you’ll be alright. Get some counseling though before you turn into me. I don’t think any porn I’ve watched was much like real life sex. Some of it is downright weird. I imagine a kid could get some strange ideas from it.

PS Those sites sometimes have viruses.

Oops sorry @petethepothead.

I don’t really care, I would let him.

Go for it! why not

@petethepothead Right. The topic.. that was about, ummmm…. (just kidding)
I would never allow my 11 year old child to look at porn, but I do think it is completely natural for children to want to, and try to look at it. I would not punish my child for looking at porn, because it would be my fault for not keeping a better eye on them.

Did you mean is it okay for an 11 year-old boy to watch corn?

Mod says to stay on topic, better man.

LOL…I doubt it.

Well, It’s not something I would necessarily recommend, but he’s not the first, nor will he be the last.

I was watching porn when I was that age. I think I turned out pretty normal. I don’t think a kid should be punished for his curiosity. Maybe she should restrict particular websites if she doesn’t want him to from now on.

in a time where parents are fervously against sex ed in school but won’t tell their kids themselves, they have to get it from somewhere
Watch porn. It is good for you.

@Nullo
and that is exactly why there must be separation of church and state

I would not let an 11 year old boy watch porn simply because they will have very high expectations for women to have a certain physique that you sometimes never see in real life; for example, he may be sorely disappointed in any woman who doesn’t have large breasts, or he will feel that he is unable to adequately satisfy a woman because his penis is not as big as the ones seen in porn. Porn is just acting, and like most movies, children tend to believe what they see in movies, and expect the real world to behave as such.

@fatefulwhisper ”Porn is just acting, and like most movies, children tend to believe what they see in movies, and expect the real world to behave as such.”
And just like normal films, once kids grow up, they realize porns are not real.
I can’t say I was an avid porn watcher at 11, but by that time I had seen a few. I never grew up thinking every woman had the porn-star body beneath their clothes, nor that they constantly wanted my disco stick.

I wouldn’t like it if my pre pubescent son got hooked on internet porn and I would worry he’d develop false ideas of what is sexually pleasing based on it because grown men do a good job of that themselves, just imagine having an extra ten years to muck things up.

A lot of guys watch porn at 11. It’s nothing unheard of, they’re almost middle schoolers by that time.

Let’s just lock kids in small rooms with nothing but a bed and a toilet, with a slot in the door that parents can use to slip in trays of food, and keep them there until the age of majority. Problem solved. ~

@ragingloli Explain, plz.
And while you’re at it, explain how you’d even be able to distinguish. Every law is a reflection of someone’s idea of what’s right, and just about every idea in your head was put there, in parts or in whole, by others. Paradigms are shaped by peers and surroundings, after all.

@Sarcasm ‘Disco Stick’...... Hahahahahaha, awesome :)

@Nullo
There is a massive difference between actions that are considered wrong because they hurt, physically, mentally or financially, other people against their will (like assault, murder, theft, fraud, rape, etc) and actions that do not hurt other people and are considered wrong only because someone thinks it is “eww”, like porn (if you do not like it, do not watch it). If the church or any religion for that matter had too much power in politics, they would essentially criminalise thoughts and victimless actions. It would be middle ages, crusades and inquisition all over again.

In before “porn hurts people for the following reasons…”

@ragingloli There are those who contend that porn actually is harmful. I personally know a guy whose marriage was put in jeopardy by his porn-watching; his wife simply couldn’t compete.

@Nullo: I don’t really think anyone here has said that porn is never harmful. But there is a difference between a curious pre-teen checking out a little internet porn, and a grown man being so addicted to it that it is detrimental to his personal relationships. Kind of like how having a beer or two on the weekends doesn’t make you an alcoholic.

@MacBean
I can certainly understand a kid being curious, but I do not think that porn-watching ought to be permitted anyway. Working with the rather limited framework of the analogy, there’s plenty of weekend beer out there, and it’s not porn.
I guess that porn would be spiked beer? Or maybe wood alcohol. I dunno, I’m more of a wine person.