My 2 cents worth
 

Let me be the first to say I am far from sainthood. I do believe that pornography and sexual exploitation is wrong. Any nation who justifies these things are on a downward spiral towards complete moral corruption. Which is where us adults come into play. It is our responsibility to teach our children right from wrong and possibly change the direction in which our society is currently going.
After saying that, let me add the flip-side of the coin.
It is NOT the government's responsibility to censor us in any form or fashion. Isn't freedom what we are, at this very moment, fighting to conserve? Yet we seem to take this right for granted much too often. We want to use it when it benefits our personal agendas, and at the same time ignore and cry out for censorship when someone gets offended.
As Americans, we need to uphold the Constitution. We can't pick it apart and choose only to agree with the parts the suit us at that moment for whatever given circumstance. That Constitution has held this country together, if we continue to pick it apart and fight to ammend all of our rights, we won't have any rights left, and that will surely lead to the decline and fall of this great empire.
Everything on the internet, both good and bad, represents the real world because it's real people putting these things up on the net. We can't filter our children from the real world, nor should we want to. We can only teach our children to follow the path of the righteous and hope that when their morals are questioned they remember the ways they were taught. It is inevitalble, our children, no matter how hard we try to protect them, are going to be faced with comprimising situations. We cannot shelter them, and our only hope of controlling the content that is available out there is by teaching our children good God-fearing ideals. Because our children really are our future and will decide what direction our society takes.
But wherever that path may lead, I hope we choose to value and uphold our constitutional rights.

Thankyou for letting me vent. :)

as a practicing atheist its a little strange feeling sympathetic to such explicit but unusually even-handed religiosity (though the moral corruption and god fearing touches are still unsettling) - it would be easy to resort to some flip comment about the importance of protecting "the slim, sweet , beautiful, teenage blondes of my [Macterminator] neighbourhood as they, poor things, are the most vulnerable to moral corruption."

but - more seriously - between the 1930's and the 1990's sexual abuse of children was steadily rising (as measured by credible research studies) - but since 1990 its been in steady decline (at least as measured by a major american study examining substantiated cases in all jurisdictions , including Alaska) - the decline is huge - a 39 percent decrease since 1990 - if we remember that willingness to report has increased in recent years this decline is remarkable

two points about this research data - first any other such decrease in victimisation would be celebrated but in this case the finding is very unpopular in some quarters with the researchers receiving hate mail and being accused of being pedophiles - the second point relates to why the decrease has happened

the increasing sexualisation of everyday life which is so frowned upon by the religous and narrow minded has had an unanticipted benefit - children are no longer so innocent about sex and understand what is happening (ie sexual abuse) at a much earlier age and are able to talk about it to adults in a way that was simply not possible in earlier more conservative times - if you compare the levels of childhood sexual abuse amongst women now in their 50's and 60's with that of young children today the decrease is startling

whether we like it or not the intrusion of sex into everyday culure (and that includes pornography - putting aside the difficulty of actually defining what that might be) - is not all bad

hi every one
im 14 and my parents trust me on the internet, im 14 and im on at 12:00 at night just talking to friends. and i think all of you would enjoy hearing from some one my age

i have very high prioritys, after making a really bad mistake about a year ago that involved sex i swear i regret it to my moms death bed. If there are any 14 year old out there that are " horny " do not be intimanted by the girls. they ruin your life. They can be great, but they can be tempting. do not lay lust, its the worst thing u can possibly get into. Wait till after marriage. Thats the best advice.

Let god be with you all
-kyle

pornography
 

Hi - I just logged on to this forum because I have just discovered my 12yr old son downloading graphic gay pornography off limewire. This is mainly in the form of little quick time movies.
I want to stop this without confronting him or shutting down limewire ( he uses it alot for music) Is there a way? Also some of these sites contain chat links. This seems very disturbing and scary to me. Can anyone help with this?

There is no way for LimeWire or anyone else to control what people are sharing. - You can enable the adult content filter in LimeWire but your son will be able to deactivate it easily.

It's probably the best solution, not to let him use the internet when you are away (I can think of a dozen ways to get porn in the internet without using LimeWire). And talk to him about the videos he has downloaded. If you make it clear to him that you don't like it if he downloads porn he will be a little more careful until he's 14 or 15 maybe.

Once your son has reached a certain age, there won't be any way of preventing him from watching porn. He will get that stuff on LAN parties, from friends on CDs or video, in IRC chats, usenet newsgroups, from various websites. That's just natural curiosity for the 'forbidden. So, be open with him about it.

well, your replies are certainly enlightening and entertaining, however, some of us know we can't control the world or anyone but our own household. i just don't want my teenage son sitting at our shared computer, doing private things which may clog my keyboard! now, can limewire or can limewire not eliminate "sexy girl has shaking orgasm" from my particular account??? every song title or artist, no matter who or what we ask for, comes up with this selection. have you heard of Graboid video? they have all their "adult" movies in an "adult" section, and i was able to have them delete the adult section on my account only, in order to sleep at night knowing i've done all i could to keep my children's minds somewhat innocent. thanks for helping and sharing. or, or, if there was a way on my account to be able to review a history of all that was viewed, that would help.

Old thread to reply to. :) Direct instructions to eliminate porn from results (click on blue link) & add whichever other words you feel need to be. :)