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I remember in grade 4, which was in '98 for me (I was 9, obviously) internet was fresh in the schools and a tool we were being taught to use.

We were all assigned projects to do on a form of animal (everybody got given one) and mine turned out to be an Anaconda.

So, I was told to use.. I think metacrawler or something, some search engine long since forgotten. Well, one of the sites was called "Anaconda Links" or something, and it was all about snake skins and leather. Worst of all, I wasn't by myself, we had one classroom computer and a group of guys/girls with nothing better to do were watching me use the thing.

So, Sure enough as this website comes up, a commotion gets raised and I get an extra special trip to the principals office, and he had to call my mom in to tell her I saw porn on the internet. (Fortunately, I wasn't blamed for finding the page)

Adding video to channels (Canada) - requested by Shepppard.

At least you didn't get peacock.

Hahaha! So much silliness. My favorite quote was "Men keep on going back to it... one of the reasons they keep on going back to it is that it isn't working. That's the odd thing. It doesn't actually satisfy, you keep on having to do the same thing over and over and over again, because it's not touching the heart."

My wife and I loved that.

And it's so true. I know SO many guys that once they've had true, deep, meaningful, love-based intimacy, they never want to have it again... LOL!

HA! This video has my current "adult" client in it, starts at around 18:30, I work for "the darkside of porn"!!. Gawd I hate this sort of crap, dramatic cords, ominous voice overs, such bullshit.

Wait a minute... People keep going back to porn because it "isn't working"? It doesn't "actually satisfy"? Ahh yes, as opposed to intimate sex with a loving partner, which you engage in one time and then you're completely satisfied and set for the rest of your life. ...Oh wait, she didn't intend to imply that? I don't think that porn viewing and a healthy mutually respectful and loving relationship with an actual human being are by any means mutually exclusive.

I hit puberty just as dialup internet was becoming available in my hometown. My family were early adopters and got internet service pretty much as soon as it was available. As you might imagine, I grew up with rather free and easy access to internet porn, and I browsed for quite a lot of it. However, I think that in examining my own experience as objectively as possible, I believe that I was able to self-police or direct my exposure away from the sorts of porn that I would agree are potentially damaging; for example violence, rape, or demeaning behavior (although definitions of each of those vary a lot). But in any case, I think that the reason that I was able to achieve this self-direction was though good parenting. If these things concern you, talk to your kids about it, and explain why. Provide them with the framework they need, and you'll probably be surprised at how well they react.


And just for one more anecdote, I thought I'd contribute a story that exposes just how much of a nerd I am. When I was a sophomore in High School, I was into math. I was taking trigonometry with mostly seniors and a few juniors. I had a complex graphing calculator, a Texas Instruments TI-85, with a roughly 2.5 inch by 3.5 inch screen. On the internet, you could download programs that would overwrite the basic "operating system" of the calculator, and allow you to load programs that people coded up in assembly language compatible with the machine's Z80 processor.

One such program was an image viewer. The calculator normally just had a 2-color liquid crystal screen; each pixel was either ON (black) or OFF (white). This viewer program allowed the screen to be treated as grayscale by adjusting the contrast/brightness values sent to individual pixels, as opposed the the screen as a whole as per usual.

What did I do with this program? I loaded it up with porn, of course. All softcore nudes, mostly Pamela Anderson as I recall. So, with the correct button presses to get into the assembly loader, I had a very low-resolution porn image browser. Being a sophomore, I thought that I could gain some "street cred" with the upperclassmen by showing off my porn. And, as you can probably guess, they immediately turned me in to the teacher just because it would be fun to watch me squirm. Fortunately, my teacher was very cool about it. He said: "I don't want to see it, I don't want to know about it, and if I ever hear anything about it again in the future, I'll be highly displeased". That was enough to get me to delete the program from the calculator.

The segment about porn on (the oh-so ubiquitous) cellphones brought that episode to mind.

What a waste of time. I can't make it past 5 minutes of this pure, concentrated bullshit.

I think this is a dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/Perversion-for-Profit-1965-Anti-Pornography-Short

They said the same thing about cocaine in the '80s.