Why aren't kids allowed to watch porn?

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Re: Why aren't kids allowed to watch porn?

Coma Girl Wrote:'And at the same time I'm a bdsm nut and find degradation sexy. Eyeroll. I generally hate porn and find it laughable.'

i never wrote that 0_o

Maybe it was sarcasm at the time?

Coma Girl Wrote:I just want to add a few things about pornography, and why i feel as though it is restricted to people under 18.

Lets just take a few main points about pornography that some under 18 year old people perhaps wouldn't understand, or, at least wouldn't have thought too far in depth about.

Pornography is mainly produced for men, accept that whether you like it or not. And throughout it, there are evident acts of power in a lot of videos with male/female characters, with the male character subtly showing and enforcing a dominance over a female. A factor like this is something that perhaps people who fall under the 18 line don't understand or see, and perhaps even think is normal? You get the picture...

And there are a lot more of these factors that are evident throughout the porn industry, which is kind of sad, and i hate to say it, but with acts of dominance and asserting subtle power over women in pornography, there is definitely a correlation between violence and pornography, and well, a lot of this is evident in these videos.

Perhaps this is understood by some adults too adults, but to people who are younger, the notion of pornography is not completely embraced and deconstructed to understand the ethics of gender, sex and power in our world compared to that of people who might have just come into their adolescence.

I could see the idea. Though I think a lot of people have an obstructed view on sex, regardless of age. But I could easily see that being the reason.