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Another reason to not let him use your laptop to view porn is that a lot of porn sites are full of malware, and teenagers are not the most prudent users of computers.. The lube on the keyboard will be the least of your worries once a bank-account-stealing trojan (hah double meaning!) gets installed on YOUR laptop..
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This is what I tell my kids:If you want Porn, you're going to have to save up and buy it yourself.
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"a lot of porn sites are full of malware, and teenagers are not the most prudent users of computers"

I agree with that first bit, but that second part is just feeding into a bullshit stereotype designed by a generation for whom computers are intimidating as hell (and who are wounded when their kids and grandkids don't feel that same fear of the technounknown).

Teenagers are probably the second most trustworthy family members (stereotypically/anecdotally/traditionally speaking) to have using the computer, after the twenty/thirtysomethings who grew up as the first generation with the machines.

I'd be a whole hell of a lot more terrified letting a middle aged parent or (heaven fucking forbid) an elderly person use the 'net. Teens at least still have the youthful advantage of being able to rapidly acquire and apply new information, whereas older adults often simply cannot (or refuse to) learn anything new about such spooky tech as the 'net and Apple's new MaxiPads.

That reason alone is why one of my proudest accomplishments of the last 3 years is buying my now 60-year-old dad his first (Linux) computer and in the course of a month bringing him up to speed so that while he can't take the thing apart and reassemble it while blindfolded, he can answer all his email, find stuff via Google and URLs, download and watch/listen to media (and, let's be honest, probably porn) and do all that important business stuff that computers were originally designed for.
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"a lot of sites are full of malware, and teenagers, adults, kids are not the most prudent users of computers"

FTFY.

By the way, if you view advertisements, or allow third party sites to hit your computer when you browse the net, you expose yourself to malware and privacy leeching. Nobody should browse without noscript-like functionality, period.
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@Nex - I got frustrated trying to teach my mother to double-click, and let her find her own way after that. Six months later she called to complain that Ancestry.com had updated their security and were preventing her from using Google Cache to backdoor their paywall anymore.
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I think we've lost track here. I think the writer is right. A skewed perspective on sex and relationship is exactly what pornography does to the mind. When all a person always looks at erotic and extravagant sexual encounters one is likely to assume ALL encounters are supposed to be that way. Therefore, one will never be satisfied. I feel his concerns are completely relevant. Especially since the teen is already coming out of an abusive home in addition to anger problems. This is NOT the teen who needs to be viewing the world of outlandish sex encounters.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe there is a girl (or guy) out there for him. One that will take all the crap from him in his adulthood. Maybe she'll (or he) put up with porn and constantly trying her (or his) best to satisfy an unquenchable desire.

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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