Anonymous wrote:Again OP this site will make you think everything and anything goes and it’s all normal and healthy. It is not and your doctor is the best person to seek advices from, teens need boundaries and guidance even when they think they don’t. Please don’t take advice on this subject from this board. At the bare minimum google some reputable medical sources.Anonymous wrote:I have seen dozens of tiktok videos from liberal/leftist Gen Z creators who said that their parents’ giving them unfettered access to the internet at a young age really messed them up and they will not make the same mistake, and those videos have thousands of likes, shares, etc. I wonder if this is the kind of stuff they are talking about?
Anyway, I’ll just reiterate that I think erotica is all good but the kind of stuff OP’s daughter is reading isn’t appropriate for minors.
Anonymous wrote:Again OP this site will make you think everything and anything goes and it’s all normal and healthy. It is not and your doctor is the best person to seek advices from, teens need boundaries and guidance even when they think they don’t. Please don’t take advice on this subject from this board. At the bare minimum google some reputable medical sources.Anonymous wrote:I have seen dozens of tiktok videos from liberal/leftist Gen Z creators who said that their parents’ giving them unfettered access to the internet at a young age really messed them up and they will not make the same mistake, and those videos have thousands of likes, shares, etc. I wonder if this is the kind of stuff they are talking about?
Anyway, I’ll just reiterate that I think erotica is all good but the kind of stuff OP’s daughter is reading isn’t appropriate for minors.
Anonymous wrote:Again OP this site will make you think everything and anything goes and it’s all normal and healthy. It is not and your doctor is the best person to seek advices from, teens need boundaries and guidance even when they think they don’t. Please don’t take advice on this subject from this board. At the bare minimum google some reputable medical sources.Anonymous wrote:I have seen dozens of tiktok videos from liberal/leftist Gen Z creators who said that their parents’ giving them unfettered access to the internet at a young age really messed them up and they will not make the same mistake, and those videos have thousands of likes, shares, etc. I wonder if this is the kind of stuff they are talking about?
Anyway, I’ll just reiterate that I think erotica is all good but the kind of stuff OP’s daughter is reading isn’t appropriate for minors.
Again OP this site will make you think everything and anything goes and it’s all normal and healthy. It is not and your doctor is the best person to seek advices from, teens need boundaries and guidance even when they think they don’t. Please don’t take advice on this subject from this board. At the bare minimum google some reputable medical sources.Anonymous wrote:I have seen dozens of tiktok videos from liberal/leftist Gen Z creators who said that their parents’ giving them unfettered access to the internet at a young age really messed them up and they will not make the same mistake, and those videos have thousands of likes, shares, etc. I wonder if this is the kind of stuff they are talking about?
Anyway, I’ll just reiterate that I think erotica is all good but the kind of stuff OP’s daughter is reading isn’t appropriate for minors.
Anonymous wrote:I have discovered for the third time that my DD (who is 16) is reading fan-fiction porn. There are sites like Archieve of our Own where people post the fan fiction that they write, and some of it is just ordinary bad (bad writing), but the rest of it is porn - and not romantic porn, but hard core disturbing porn (stories or gang rape, male on male rape/sex, kids watching, etc). When we discovered it before, we have told her that her curiousity is normal, totally age appropriate but that we don't feel like this is the kind of material she should be reading. We asked her to stop, she agreed, and we casually monitored her internet use - meaning I didn't check what she was doing every day, but would occassionally look. After the second time we discovered it, we put a tracking software on, and that helped, but it isn't 100% teenproof and this is the third time we have discovered her accessing it again. I think she feels guilty about it. She has some issues of picking at her skin...and I think it is related to the guilt, tension she feels about reading this stuff. I think it is time for us to block her access to the site....but it is hard to completely block a site ...and then of course she can probably find this stuff somewhere else....and I don't want her to turn to videos. We have a fairly open relationship, but this is hard. We have really tried to avoid shaming her, but the content is so disturbing to me, that is is hard avoid some shame. Any advice? Please -helpful and thoughtful posts only.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I mean, everyone in my generation read Flowers in the Attic (INCEST) and Clan of the Cave Bear (RAPE) and we all turned out more or less okay.
If she's reading fanfic porn, she's probably not doing sex. I'd consider it a good trade-off.
Those two book series are exactly what I thought of when I read this too. And I was a lot younger than 16!
But in those books the incest and rape aren’t there to turn you on.
Of course they were. (are)Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Give her access to erotica that you approve of. She might not be able to find it for free. And block the bad site.
This isn’t a parenting tip, but there is so much good smut on kindle unlimited books. Bad smut too, but all of it that I have read makes consent, safe sex, and characters over 18 a given. Even really dark ones with rape fantasy and voyeurism and stuff.
OP’s DD might like Cora Riley’s mafia romances or Elle Kennedy’s series about college hockey players. LJ Shen some good books too.
Anonymous wrote:Honestly? I would ignore it. I went through a phase as a teen where I read some super weird sexually explicit stuff, more problematic than a bunch of fanfic, in published romance and horror novels. I didn't do anything sexual as a teen and am a profoundly vanilla adult. Some kids prefer to do all their sexual experimentation in the realm of fiction which has the bonus of being a 0% risk of STIs.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I mean, everyone in my generation read Flowers in the Attic (INCEST) and Clan of the Cave Bear (RAPE) and we all turned out more or less okay.
If she's reading fanfic porn, she's probably not doing sex. I'd consider it a good trade-off.
Those two book series are exactly what I thought of when I read this too. And I was a lot younger than 16!
But in those books the incest and rape aren’t there to turn you on.