This is just the continuation of the "public health crisis" excuse to ban something people don't agree with. Smoking, Sugary drinks, guns, etc. The slippery slope continues.
Not yet, but in UK it seems that the restricted areas keep proliferating. There's a park near my work that just put up "this is a smoke-free zone" signs, and this is in the open air. Ridiculous. But I digress.
But we try to keep minors away from them.
And there's the real problem. It was always the shop worker that was the gatekeeper to bar tobacco, alcohol and porn from minors. It wasn't a perfect system and everyone knew workarounds but it was good enough to appease the majority. Now the porn is readily available as digital media and there has bee
That you grew up in an environment where "Here kid, have a shot/snort/peek of this" does not make it something anyone else wishes to foist onto their children.
Well you should have come across the outerbridge to staten island, plenty of guys running various deli's would have sold them to you provided you paid cash and bought some other products that would disguise it.
That's if you wanted to be all legit, most of us just found our parents collection, or some community pool of the things. Honestly I'm not sure there's been a time in history when teenage boys who wanted porn couldn't get it. And by that I mean nearly all teenage boys. Most of us turn out "fine" and s
Videos were obtainable easily in my day, but on VHS or via cable (particularly those cable boxes with illegal decode modifications that many may have had). I hear tell they existed on reels for the generation before me, and could be snuck into for the generation before that.
Our resolution is definitely better. I'm not sure at what resolution porn begins to corrupt the mind.
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This is just the continuation of the "public health crisis" excuse to ban something people don't agree with. Smoking, Sugary drinks, guns, etc. The slippery slope continues.
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Cigarettes haven't been banned. But we try to keep minors away from them.
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Cigarettes haven't been banned.
Not yet, but in UK it seems that the restricted areas keep proliferating. There's a park near my work that just put up "this is a smoke-free zone" signs, and this is in the open air. Ridiculous. But I digress.
But we try to keep minors away from them.
And there's the real problem. It was always the shop worker that was the gatekeeper to bar tobacco, alcohol and porn from minors. It wasn't a perfect system and everyone knew workarounds but it was good enough to appease the majority. Now the porn is readily available as digital media and there has bee
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It was always the shop worker that was the gatekeeper to bar tobacco, alcohol and porn from minors.
Somehow in my childhood I did not notice children deprived of any of these things, long before the internet or even AOL.
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That you grew up in an environment where "Here kid, have a shot/snort/peek of this" does not make it something anyone else wishes to foist onto their children.
I had to brave the disaproving stares... (Score:0)
of the little old ladies who ran the news-stand in New Brunswick NJ if I wanted the latest Penthouse. It was indeed a trial.
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Well you should have come across the outerbridge to staten island, plenty of guys running various deli's would have sold them to you provided you paid cash and bought some other products that would disguise it.
That's if you wanted to be all legit, most of us just found our parents collection, or some community pool of the things. Honestly I'm not sure there's been a time in history when teenage boys who wanted porn couldn't get it. And by that I mean nearly all teenage boys. Most of us turn out "fine" and s
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Why were they working there?
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We used to find magazines like Hustler and Penthouse in the woods behind the bus stop.
That said, if a picture is worth a thousand words, the videos out these days are worth a million pictures...
Something to consider, but not overreact on.
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Videos were obtainable easily in my day, but on VHS or via cable (particularly those cable boxes with illegal decode modifications that many may have had). I hear tell they existed on reels for the generation before me, and could be snuck into for the generation before that.
Our resolution is definitely better. I'm not sure at what resolution porn begins to corrupt the mind.