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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you're a day late and a dollar short.  You should have already been having open conversations with him about sex, including respecting women.  That's what the porn problem is about - not watching porn, per se, but not understanding that porn is acting, not real life.  If you personally have a deeply founded belief that porn harms women, then you should communicate that to him as part of your values.  But if you just think porn in squicky and don't want to think about your 13 year old son having a sex drive, then you are sticking your head in the sand!

I also think you have to consider the role of the smart phone/web access, but as part of a bigger picture about media consumption.  Yes, 13 year old boys have been seeking out porn since time immemorial.  But the bigger problem is having unfettered 24/7 access to the internet, porn included. [/quote] OP here, we have always had open conversations with him about sex, if I implied othereise I didn't intend to. For example, a few years back he said something about someone masturbating in the bathroom at school.  I asked him what that meant and he had it all wrong so I explained what it was and that its private and should be kept that way.  So I don't have my head in the sand, we have talked about sex including oral,, rape, love, marriage, diseases, aids, condoms, lots of stuff.  I guess we forgot to cover porn though, we haven't had any conversations about that with him.      Obviously I am planning to do something about the phone internet, whether that be taking it away all together or restricting his access to the phone altogether I haven't decided yet.[/quote]

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