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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well there is a huge difference between what my husband had access to at that age versus what kids can have access to today![/quote]

Yes, exactly.  The porn we may have been exposed to as children would include the occasional magazine; MAYBE on rare occasion a video if you found your parents stash - and since the social acceptance of such things was far less than today, most parents didn't have stashes or hid them really well.   I remember not being allowed into the "adult" section of the video store until 18.  So, at least there was a significant delay of viewing until adulthood.  What we have now is widespread availability of anything the mind can imagine, starting from a shockingly young age.  Now, sexual experimentation tends to begin with pornography, rather than another human being.  Images and ideas get planted even before full sexual maturity.  As children are given their own private devices at younger and younger ages, their curiosity will lead them wherever they want, unless we as parents are extremely fastidious at preventing their access.

I know the damage, as my (adopted at age 9) son had easy access to both television and internet pornography starting from about age 5 in his orphanage.  All the children would sit and watch porn together - all the way up through the teens.  It was just another TV station for them, and a fascinating one at that.  Their one computer with internet had no controls, and no adult supervision.  I believe this exposure was as damaging to him as if he had been physically abused.

At what age does it become "okay" to view pornography then?  I'm not sure, but I would hope that our children can at least experience sex with a real human being prior to viewing the complete lie that pornography is.[/quote]

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