Porn Is Bad for Kids

Posted on | January 26, 2010 | 25 Comments

You’d think this would be common sense, but some “experts” have dismissed the harm. I agree with Pundette, who says the whole “scientific study” approach is flawed:

We don’t really need a study to tell us that tender, developing minds and souls are bound to be malformed and damaged by exposure to pornography.

One of the weirdest effects of pornified culture is young women feeling pressured to conform to the Porn Norm. Beyond the trend of extreme depilation — the deforestation of the pubic delta, so to speak — now girls are getting surgically altered:

[A] young woman consulted a doctor about the fact that her labia minora extended slightly beyond her labia majora and that this caused her embarrassment. Instead of reassuring her that this was entirely normal, the doctor recommended, and carried out, surgery on her labia.

Ouch. And, honestly, what a tragedy. I’m struggling to find a way to say this in a PG-13 way, so I’ll just say it: Lots of guys like that extra helping of cauliflower. IYKWIMAITYD.

More to the point, form follows function, natural is better, and it’s bizarre to think that women now fear being judged by the aesthetics of their genitalia.

Hear the words of the Rule 5 king: Ladies, it’s all good. If any guy is ever so fortunate as to get close enough for a visual inspection of your Valley of Bliss, you should expect him to genuflect in gratitude.

And give you jewelry.

At any rate, listen to Pundette. She can say all this far more tactfully than I ever could.

UPDATE: On the other hand, Radley Balko makes some good points about the dangers of prosecutorial overkill. A thing can be bad, wrong and immoral without requiring felony charges again 16-year-olds.

Category: Rule 5, Sex

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25 Responses to “Porn Is Bad for Kids”

syn
January 26th, 2010 @ 12:14 pm

I’m single so I have the luxury of testing the types and after some thirty years of experimentation my results show that males who habitually watch porn are lousy at sex.

The girls are having this surgery only to end up with a semi-flaccid sweat-bomb on top; when trying to be the image plastered in the mind the body cannot connect.

The youngster generation may appear sexy hot however without passion they’ll be climaxing to a computer screen.

Want passion, take the head out of porn.
syn
January 26th, 2010 @ 7:14 am

I’m single so I have the luxury of testing the types and after some thirty years of experimentation my results show that males who habitually watch porn are lousy at sex.

The girls are having this surgery only to end up with a semi-flaccid sweat-bomb on top; when trying to be the image plastered in the mind the body cannot connect.

The youngster generation may appear sexy hot however without passion they’ll be climaxing to a computer screen.

Want passion, take the head out of porn.
BlogDog
January 26th, 2010 @ 1:55 pm

Expect to get a lot of lip on this one.
One thing I’ve noted in my own life is that I first started naked women back when shaving was not an issue. So I tend to find the deforestation not to my preference. It’s not how a woman “should” look.
On the other hand, it did allow me to make my shaving joke: The first time I saw a “landing strip,” there was an emergency and I had to foam the runway.
BlogDog
January 26th, 2010 @ 8:55 am

Expect to get a lot of lip on this one.
One thing I’ve noted in my own life is that I first started naked women back when shaving was not an issue. So I tend to find the deforestation not to my preference. It’s not how a woman “should” look.
On the other hand, it did allow me to make my shaving joke: The first time I saw a “landing strip,” there was an emergency and I had to foam the runway.
Philip Primeau
January 26th, 2010 @ 2:02 pm

Would you rather have your boy sneaking peeks at Playboy or crawling into the panties of every chickenhead with “JUICY” written on the ass of her low-riding sweats?
Philip Primeau
January 26th, 2010 @ 9:02 am

Would you rather have your boy sneaking peeks at Playboy or crawling into the panties of every chickenhead with “JUICY” written on the ass of her low-riding sweats?
Roxeanne de Luca
January 26th, 2010 @ 3:35 pm

What the *(&#$*(&* is wrong with people? Okay, yes, this is due in part to this ridiculous business of sleeping around: it’s not that big of a surprise that, once you’ve removed love and mutual respect from the equation, people would worry about the superficial things, because they would feel as if that is all they have to offer. So alternative #1 to surgery (who in their right mind goes through surgery voluntarily, especially on something that sensitive… EEEEKKKKK!) is to have actual morals.

Alternative #2 is to simply refuse to sleep with any man who started getting critical about those things. “If it’s so bad, sleep with someone else” should be basic common sense.

/rant
Roxeanne de Luca
January 26th, 2010 @ 10:35 am

What the *(&#$*(&* is wrong with people? Okay, yes, this is due in part to this ridiculous business of sleeping around: it’s not that big of a surprise that, once you’ve removed love and mutual respect from the equation, people would worry about the superficial things, because they would feel as if that is all they have to offer. So alternative #1 to surgery (who in their right mind goes through surgery voluntarily, especially on something that sensitive… EEEEKKKKK!) is to have actual morals.

Alternative #2 is to simply refuse to sleep with any man who started getting critical about those things. “If it’s so bad, sleep with someone else” should be basic common sense.

/rant
Robert Stacy McCain
January 26th, 2010 @ 3:48 pm

The first time I saw a “landing strip,” there was an emergency and I had to foam the runway.

LOL. After 20 years of marriage, I’m happy parking my plane in the same hangar.
Robert Stacy McCain
January 26th, 2010 @ 3:48 pm

The first time I saw a “landing strip,” there was an emergency and I had to foam the runway.

LOL. After 20 years of marriage, I’m happy parking my plane in the same hangar.
Robert Stacy McCain
January 26th, 2010 @ 10:48 am

The first time I saw a “landing strip,” there was an emergency and I had to foam the runway.

LOL. After 20 years of marriage, I’m happy parking my plane in the same hangar.
H. G. Fielding
January 26th, 2010 @ 5:14 pm

Phillip: I’ll see your non sequitur of a false choice and raise you: Would you rather have your daughter wind up in Girls Gone Wild, or serve as the featured entertainment at the frat’s spring break festivity?
H. G. Fielding
January 26th, 2010 @ 12:14 pm

Phillip: I’ll see your non sequitur of a false choice and raise you: Would you rather have your daughter wind up in Girls Gone Wild, or serve as the featured entertainment at the frat’s spring break festivity?
Finrod
January 26th, 2010 @ 7:49 pm

The problem with studies like that is, as I’ve said before, correlation is not causation. You can interpret the fact that people that look at porn are more likely to be screwed up as ‘porn screws people up’, or ‘people that are already screwed up are more likely to look at porn’.

Plus, it’s very easy to take the ‘keep all porn away from kids’ thing way too far. I give you this example, where a southern California school district has pulled the Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition from the shelves because some kid looked up ‘oral sex’ in the dictionary.

And that doesn’t even begin to touch on all the restrictions that gets put on porn for adults using the ‘it’s for the children’ excuse, like the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act, both rightly struck down by the courts.

It’s the job of the parents to police their kids’ behavior. Don’t expect the government or the schools to do it for you. Governments are crappy parents at best, and malicious at worst.
Finrod
January 26th, 2010 @ 2:49 pm

The problem with studies like that is, as I’ve said before, correlation is not causation. You can interpret the fact that people that look at porn are more likely to be screwed up as ‘porn screws people up’, or ‘people that are already screwed up are more likely to look at porn’.

Plus, it’s very easy to take the ‘keep all porn away from kids’ thing way too far. I give you this example, where a southern California school district has pulled the Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition from the shelves because some kid looked up ‘oral sex’ in the dictionary.

And that doesn’t even begin to touch on all the restrictions that gets put on porn for adults using the ‘it’s for the children’ excuse, like the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act, both rightly struck down by the courts.

It’s the job of the parents to police their kids’ behavior. Don’t expect the government or the schools to do it for you. Governments are crappy parents at best, and malicious at worst.
dustbury.com » Lipping off
January 27th, 2010 @ 12:01 pm

[…] Our smutsational society, says Robert Stacy McCain, is putting women into some awkward situations: One of the weirdest effects of pornified culture is young women feeling pressured to conform to the Porn Norm. Beyond the trend of extreme depilation — the deforestation of the pubic delta, so to speak — now girls are getting surgically altered: […]
Reginald
January 28th, 2010 @ 10:43 am

“Alternative #2 is to simply refuse to sleep with any man who started getting critical about those things. “If it’s so bad, sleep with someone else” should be basic common sense.”

Alternative #3 is to have a big enough bush that men can’t see your labia. (Seriously Ladies, how hard is it to resist the temptation to shave the most sensitive part of your body?)

Alternative #4 is to abstain from sex until you’re married.
Reginald
January 28th, 2010 @ 10:43 am

“Alternative #2 is to simply refuse to sleep with any man who started getting critical about those things. “If it’s so bad, sleep with someone else” should be basic common sense.”

Alternative #3 is to have a big enough bush that men can’t see your labia. (Seriously Ladies, how hard is it to resist the temptation to shave the most sensitive part of your body?)

Alternative #4 is to abstain from sex until you’re married.
Reginald
January 28th, 2010 @ 5:43 am

“Alternative #2 is to simply refuse to sleep with any man who started getting critical about those things. “If it’s so bad, sleep with someone else” should be basic common sense.”

Alternative #3 is to have a big enough bush that men can’t see your labia. (Seriously Ladies, how hard is it to resist the temptation to shave the most sensitive part of your body?)

Alternative #4 is to abstain from sex until you’re married.
Reginald
January 28th, 2010 @ 10:47 am

“Would you rather have your boy sneaking peeks at Playboy or crawling into the panties of every chickenhead with ‘JUICY’ written on the ass of her low-riding sweats?”

Is this a rhetorical question?

Crawling into the panties of the girls wearing low-riding sweats. It would be way less gross than him whacking off to some disgusting Porno Mag, at least.

After all, someone is going to sire the next generation of Bastards, and they might as well have someone of outstanding intelligence and moral character like me as their Grandfather.
Reginald
January 28th, 2010 @ 10:47 am

“Would you rather have your boy sneaking peeks at Playboy or crawling into the panties of every chickenhead with ‘JUICY’ written on the ass of her low-riding sweats?”

Is this a rhetorical question?

Crawling into the panties of the girls wearing low-riding sweats. It would be way less gross than him whacking off to some disgusting Porno Mag, at least.

After all, someone is going to sire the next generation of Bastards, and they might as well have someone of outstanding intelligence and moral character like me as their Grandfather.
Reginald
January 28th, 2010 @ 5:47 am

“Would you rather have your boy sneaking peeks at Playboy or crawling into the panties of every chickenhead with ‘JUICY’ written on the ass of her low-riding sweats?”

Is this a rhetorical question?

Crawling into the panties of the girls wearing low-riding sweats. It would be way less gross than him whacking off to some disgusting Porno Mag, at least.

After all, someone is going to sire the next generation of Bastards, and they might as well have someone of outstanding intelligence and moral character like me as their Grandfather.
Thomas F
March 31st, 2010 @ 2:22 pm

“Would you rather have your boy sneaking peeks at Playboy or crawling into the panties of every chickenhead with “JUICY” written on the ass of her low-riding sweats?”

One, I wouldn’t let my son date a “chickenhead” with such low self esteem as to wear “JUICY” on he ass….

Two what the hell is with parents slutting up their daughters that way……
Thomas F
March 31st, 2010 @ 2:22 pm

“Would you rather have your boy sneaking peeks at Playboy or crawling into the panties of every chickenhead with “JUICY” written on the ass of her low-riding sweats?”

One, I wouldn’t let my son date a “chickenhead” with such low self esteem as to wear “JUICY” on he ass….

Two what the hell is with parents slutting up their daughters that way……
Thomas F
March 31st, 2010 @ 9:22 am

“Would you rather have your boy sneaking peeks at Playboy or crawling into the panties of every chickenhead with “JUICY” written on the ass of her low-riding sweats?”

One, I wouldn’t let my son date a “chickenhead” with such low self esteem as to wear “JUICY” on he ass….

Two what the hell is with parents slutting up their daughters that way……