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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, most pics of "nakid women" online are going to be from porn, which will give her son an extremely warped view of the female body.  I wouldnt mind him looking at pics of a normal woman undressed, but the hyper sexualized and airbrushed pics of hairless 18 year olds would absolutely concern me, for the sake of her son's expectations of women.  I think OP should try to protect him from this for as long as possible [/quote]

I'm the Kindergarten teacher above, and to be perfectly clear, while I think this is very normal behavior for a 5 year old, it doesn't mean that I think it should be allowed!  I just mean that it shouldn't raise red flags about the kid.  After all, a 5 year old doesn't know he's going to get porn.

The idea that we should allow things, just because they're developmentally appropriate, has always baffled me.  Running in the street is very normal at 2.  But I still stopped my kid when he did it.  Trying to stay out until 2 a.m. is normal for him now as a teenager.  I stop that too.

I'm also the PP who suggested keep screens visible, and setting the home screen to a child friendly browser, as well as providing age appropriate books on the topic.  [/quote]

I agree. I was showed a Playboy mag when I was about 7, by a (female) friend of my older sister.  It really shocked me and I was horrified. I think I sensed there was something sexual and wrong about it, even at that age, seeing the woman with huge, fake, absurdly round breasts and a mostly shaven crotch.  It really had an effect on me.

Contrast that to me seeing my mom and other women undressing in the dressing room at our pool and being totally unfazed and cool with it. I think curiosity at that age is fine- it just concerns me that a 5.5 year old might not be ready to process the hyper sexualized images he finds when he acts upon that curiosity. [/quote]

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