42% of 10-17 Year Olds Saw Porn Last Year Parental controls, parenting, apparently not up to snuff... Tipped by Annmarie 
According to a recent study, 42% of Internet users between the ages of 10 and 17 say they've seen porn in the last year -- though 66% of them insist they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out. While most cable boxes and broadband-connected game consoles offer parent codes, and most ISPs are offering free parental controls as a value-added service, the filters still leave something to be desired, and children are still going to be exposed to porn, violence and other content. The best bet continues to be actually watching your children instead of using technology as a babysitter.
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 | | I miss Penthouse and Hustler And I saw my first Penthouse and Hustler when i was probably about 10 also. | |
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ß | Re: I miss Penthouse and Hustler I found my first porn in the woods.
I was about 10 also | |
| | | | | Re: I miss Penthouse and Hustler yup same here, about 10 and finding hustler in the wood where all the teenagers hung out. | |
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Mission Viejo, CA | I was a late porn looker...I saw my first Playboy about 16...but made up for it by having my first beer and cigarette at about 6. 
I bet the parents who did want their kids exposed to porn in that survery...don't even know what a website it..yet alone how to block one. | |
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| said by proletarian2:And I saw my first Penthouse and Hustler when i was probably about 10 also. I seen porn before the internet and digital cable was around. The problem isn't "the technology not working", it's "the idiot users not setting it, logging it, and whuppin butt for tinkering/disrespecting the computer/equipment YOU bought". I take the computer and TV away, and restrict it to "supervised access" if the kid steps out of line.
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| Hey, I've got an idea.... Instead of taking care of our own kids, lets get the government to pass a lot of stupid laws to make electronics and media more expensive and less functional for everybody else. Somebody has to think of the children, no? | |
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| | | | | Re: Hey, I've got an idea.... Heh. I am registered. It is just that my account kept getting flagged by the pre-teen political scientists here so my posts are delayed anyway. So, I have not signed in over a year. :P | |
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this was on the news this morning.. everyone will be exposed to porn.. you can't tell me theres a single person who aint seen it before.
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| | | LOL Sure "66% of them insist they did not want to view the images"
But they just couldn't look away. LOL | |
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2 edits | Re: LOL said by laserjobs:Sure "66% of them insist they did not want to view the images" But they just couldn't look away. LOL Yeah I loved that. They insist that they didn't want to look at the images.
If that's the case, I'd have to insist that they were lying.
People are so freaking uptight about sex in the US that it's crazy. We have no problem blowing someone into 11 pieces, having their blood gush out all over the place. But the minute a b00b comes on the screen, the world has to stop, surveys have to be done, and people have to lie. It's lovely.
Parental controls will only help so much. The rest kids will learn in school. We all had those times when a student - friend or not - brought in a nudy magazine, or started using words describing sexual positions or body parts that you hadn't heard before. It's called life, and parents can help steer and guide, and that's about it.
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Round Lake, IL | Re: LOL 66% lol, yeah and i'm the fricken pope, lol. Give me a break. These kids know they were looking it up, and wanted to see it. But it couldn't be the kid's fault, NO NO NO!!!! "My child would never look up porn. Jimmy's a good boy." Please!!! They are curious, but when they get caught, they always have to find someone else to blame. Never the parents fault, never Jimmy's fault, it's always the ISP or technolgy's. It the words of John John Stossel "Give me a break!" | |
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kudos:1 | Re: LOL said by NowVOIP:66% lol, yeah and i'm the fricken pope, lol. Give me a break. These kids know they were looking it up, and wanted to see it. But it couldn't be the kid's fault, NO NO NO!!!! "My child would never look up porn. Jimmy's a good boy." Please!!! They are curious, but when they get caught, they always have to find someone else to blame. Never the parents fault, never Jimmy's fault, it's always the ISP or technolgy's. It the words of John John Stossel "Give me a break!" Ever consider popups? Mistyped and hijacked websites? Just because you might seek out porn does not mean that everyone does. I know that when I am doing research I am lucky if I DON'T hit porn at least once.
And I know how subtle the difference is in addresses, my daughter was upset that she kept hitting a porn site with a link her teacher gave them to do some research on. Turns out the "l" was really a "1" (lowercase EL vice a numeric ONE?).
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| Re: LOL I agree there is a lot of aggressive porn spam and many porn sites are based on slight misspellings of popular sites.
I once inadvertently mistyped a popular site that I visit nearly every day, by leaving a letter out of the middle of the name, and before I knew it I was looking at a woman with her jaw nearly dislocated choking on some guy.
This stuff isn't just sitting there waiting for people to look for it. It is aggressively promoting itself and people have every right to be offended by that and to want to protect their children from it. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: LOL said by pfak:I think that's bogus about Mistyped or hijacked websites display porn, I haven't seen one of those in years. All the porn I've seen, I've purposely been looking for - and I'm sure it's the same for most of those kids. I think the answer is in the first part of your last paragraph for your case.
For the rest of us who are not looking for porn, we come across it all too often when we are doing any real work at all using the Internet. Even at my workplace with all the site/name blocking they do (which is a joke, blocks technical sites as well as the garbage ones) I still come across various levels of porn.
Yes, some of the kids surveyed are probaly like you, but most of them probably do have better things to do.
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| | | | | | | | | Re: LOL I'll join pfak on this. When I was younger, and most of my friends were younger, we would look for porn and sure, if we got caught, it was always somebody else's fault... C'mon, most kids won't own up to what they did if they know that it's considered wrong. Even if it was completely obvious that you broke the plate, vase, trampled the flowers etc... you usually insisted that it was somebody else. There may of course be a small percentage of those with some "outstanding moral fibre" but I bet over 66% of those 66% were looking for some p...y  | |
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Camden, TN | said by RayW:Ever consider popups? It's called POP-UP BLOCKER
Mistyped and hijacked websites? Just because you might seek out porn does not mean that everyone does. I know that when I am doing research I am lucky if I DON'T hit porn at least once. There are laws already on the books regarding this. Did you report the offending website to the proper athorities? If not then you are part of the problem.
And I know how subtle the difference is in addresses, my daughter was upset that she kept hitting a porn site with a link her teacher gave them to do some research on. Turns out the "l" was really a "1" (lowercase EL vice a numeric ONE?).
Then you were not properly protecting the compter. Please learn proper computer protection techniques. Not very hard. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: LOL said by BF69:said by RayW:Ever consider popups? It's called POP-UP BLOCKER Mistyped and hijacked websites? Just because you might seek out porn does not mean that everyone does. I know that when I am doing research I am lucky if I DON'T hit porn at least once. There are laws already on the books regarding this. Did you report the offending website to the proper athorities? If not then you are part of the problem. And I know how subtle the difference is in addresses, my daughter was upset that she kept hitting a porn site with a link her teacher gave them to do some research on. Turns out the "l" was really a "1" (lowercase EL vice a numeric ONE?).
Then you were not properly protecting the compter. Please learn proper computer protection techniques. Not very hard. 1. Some sites require popups to work. (and I use one)
2. What good does it do to report a site not in the US?
3. How can I protect against someone registering a typo and putting porn on it? And what does the way an Internet address is typed in have to do with protecting a computer?
Oh, as far as protecting a computer, ours are so protected that we have to get permission to go to many sites that are TECHNICAL...and I still come across porn sites. If you can market a way to definitively block all porn AND still access 100% of non-porn sites, you would not have to work again.
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Camden, TN | Re: LOL said by RayW:said by BF69:said by RayW:Ever consider popups? It's called POP-UP BLOCKER Mistyped and hijacked websites? Just because you might seek out porn does not mean that everyone does. I know that when I am doing research I am lucky if I DON'T hit porn at least once. There are laws already on the books regarding this. Did you report the offending website to the proper athorities? If not then you are part of the problem. And I know how subtle the difference is in addresses, my daughter was upset that she kept hitting a porn site with a link her teacher gave them to do some research on. Turns out the "l" was really a "1" (lowercase EL vice a numeric ONE?).
Then you were not properly protecting the compter. Please learn proper computer protection techniques. Not very hard. 1. Some sites require popups to work. (and I use one) 2. What good does it do to report a site not in the US? 3. How can I protect against someone registering a typo and putting porn on it? And what does the way an Internet address is typed in have to do with protecting a computer? Oh, as far as protecting a computer, ours are so protected that we have to get permission to go to many sites that are TECHNICAL...and I still come across porn sites. If you can market a way to definitively block all porn AND still access 100% of non-porn sites, you would not have to work again. As I said in over 5 years of surfing my son has NEVER once seen porn.
Some sites need pop-up that's why on those you set the pop-up block setting to allow pop-ups on that site. If that site is the one that's popping up porn perhaps you child doesn't need to be on that site anyways.
As far as misspllings. Most porn is not based on misspellings. If some porn site is using a misspelling of a popual non-porn site then I'm quite sure you you let the owner of the site whose name is being mispelled aware of this they will in fact take the proper legal measure to get rid of this site. Trust me no one is going to use a misspelling of Walmart, Disney, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft etc for very long without getting sued.
Trust me some kid typing in bigtits.com or analsex.com did NOT get there by 'accident'. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: LOL said by BF69:Trust me some kid typing in bigtits.com or analsex.com did NOT get there by 'accident'. Yes, the obvious ones I agree with you. But while you may never make any mistakes in typing, some of us do. And you are right, the big names with a lot of money do take action. But there are many other sites that have not the resources to look for and fight all possible misspellings that are obvious trolls and as I have said before, I have found some of them.
Talking to folks in law enforcement, there is problem with the perverting of site names, especially ones that kids go to. Usually it is to dump trojans and the like, but also to get the older kids involved in porn since it is addictive to certain personality types.
I wish you luck in not ever having the misfortune of hitting a site that panders to the sicker personalities in society.
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1 edit | Yup. I've NEVER gotten to a porn site due to a mis-spelling. The only porn site that was like that was www.whitehouse.com. Of course, that no longer leads to the white house porn site anymore. The only time that i've gotten porn when I didn't want it, was when I visit various sites that offer other un-moral content, and have porn as advertisements, since those make more money.
These kids were purposely searching for porn, but then when found out, or asked about it, they just say it was a 'mistake'. The data shows that most teenagers jerk it once a day. (And I know I did..) They were purposely searching out porn, and for a useful purpose I might add. | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Re: LOL You know, it's funny. I -have- come across sites like that, before.
One instance for example, was a few years back when I was trying to go to gamefaqs to look up some cheats for whatever game I was playing. By accident, I left out the s at the end, and it sent me to a rather explicit, gay porn website.
So, to those who say it doesn't happen, be glad you haven't had that happen, or that it hasn't happened to your kids. Because it damn well does happen. | |
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It is not up to computer users to learn all the ways necessary to protect themselves from being intruded upon by sleazy people. Sleazy people are constantly developing news tricks to force their sleaze upon others. It is society's obligation to create and enforce rules that punish those sleazy people for their intrusion. | |
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| said by Jeffrey:People are so freaking uptight about sex in the US that it's crazy. We have no problem blowing someone into 11 pieces, having their blood gush out all over the place. But the minute a b00b comes on the screen, the world has to stop, surveys have to be done, and people have to lie. It's lovely. And guess what organized group(s) shouts the loudest, and to whom the number of complaints correlates with? Puritanism is alive and well and for a reason: the louder the man with no clothes in the pulpit shouts, the more money he receives not only from the flock, but the back end as well. If I'm big and with a direct line to God, I'm gonna bitch till ears bleed about porn because I know the more I holler, the more people are gonna seek it out. Telling a young person they can't do something is akin to shoving them into it. Then I pad my portfolio with front companies dealing in porn. Simple.
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Saint Paul, MN | We have no problem blowing someone into 11 pieces, having their blood gush out all over the place. But the minute a b00b comes on the screen, the world has to stop, surveys have to be done, and people have to lie. It's lovely. A boob. Haha. Thanks for the laugh.
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| Gotta call BS on this one too. Self reports from teenage children are NOTORIOUSLY unreliable, especially when it comes to issues like this.
For the most part, you've got to be looking for porn to see it. I spend my fair share of time on the internet, and I can honestly say, at least in my experience that I see just about -ZERO- porn.
As others here have said, seeing porn as a teenager is just no big deal. Most of us saw our first porn mag before we were teenagers, and we turned out OK...
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| said by laserjobs:Sure "66% of them insist they did not want to view the images" But they just couldn't look away. LOL maybe they thought "large breasts" was a special on chicken at the supermarket? | |
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| | 42% is a low number This study has to be rigged, only 42 percent. 58% could not find porn, are they blind and don't have a PC. And approx 30% said they were not looking for it, yea right. So technically only about 12% were actually looking for porn. 17 yrs old and not looking for porn, ROFL. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: 42% is a low number Yeah.. just another waste of money on a survey that produces incorrect results.
Like most are going to admit to it? (especially considering it is illegal for them to be viewing it).
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| | | | | Re: 42% is a low number 42%?!? should be about 100%
Show me an internet connection that has never had porn on it, and i'll show you a broken modem
Between pop-ups, site ads, spam, and accidental searchs... you can't get away from it. | |
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join:2005-01-03 | Re: 42% is a low number I remember when I was 14, I Googled Barenaked Ladies... well, I NEVER found any Canadian Musicians, that's for sure, and I almost got detention!
Yes, one (especially a teen or preteen) can easily accidentally stumble upon porn, but I only have one thing to say on the matter:
When I was that age, I sought out porn like Tom seeks Jerry!
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Pittsburgh, PA | Re: hmmmmm....... I don't believe the numbers, but I've experienced the unexpected porn effect. It makes for an interesting game: search with the most innocuous words, and see how many results it takes to find some porn. The best (or worst) was a Google image search that returned a page-full of a guy with his penis hanging out. No, I wasn't searching for "penis". | |
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| | Gee, what a shocker or NOT As if anyone with a clue doesn't now this... | |
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| | | | Re: Oh No! Pornography is disgusting. Vile. Evil. The downfall of mankind.
Now its time for me to do a little more......errrr...."research" | |
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| | Exposed on TV too These same kids,as well as the rest of the country was exposed last night to two men kissing, on the premise of a commercial 
Think of the Children!!! | |
| | | Life happens God forbid that anyone who's reached puberty should have any interest in sex... oh, wait, that is the way God planned it.
Puritan perverts or just embarrassed parents? You decide. | |
| | | | Whatever happened to parenting? O.k. ways to stop porn on the computer.
TAKE IT OUT OF THE KIDS ROOM AND PUT IT IN A COMMON AREA!!!!! Yes, I am yelling because this is a simple thing that costs no money. No subscriptions to cybersitter or other blocking software.
Actually learn to use blocking software correctly. It's called a manual, learn to read.
How about not letting kids use the computer unless you are there with them?
Come on people, become parents and stop using the TV and computer as a babysitter. | |
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| | And the news is? Go back 20 years before the Internet was known by the general public and do this survey. The results will probably be about the same. | |
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kudos:1 | 3D porn That 42% should be much higher, whats the difference between a real set of tits, and ones on a monitor. We know that they will get 3D porn from peers before they know what 2D porn is. This is america remember. | |
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Staten Island, NY | 42%? What the fuck? That's way too low, and here's why. That means there's 58% out there under 18 that HAVEN'T seen porn.
58% that never used the internet once in computer class with others laughing around them to go to a porn site. 58% that never tried at their house, or a friend's house to visit a website. 58% who never saw a magazine a friend of a cousin's friend found in his uncle's work bag one night.
That's 58% of all people missing out on a critical part of child/teenagehood. I remember the quest for my friend's friend's dad's porn magazine. The zest of meeting "dangerous" my friends didn't really like at a young age, that I didn't like at all, at the risk of being caught, just to see the famed magazine.
Porn and violence doesn't destroy children. Bad parenting destroys children, and sheltering your kids is bad parenting. Don't go out of your way to download double DPs for your kid, but don't go out of your way to make sure he never sees violence or porn either, because I assure you - him and all of his friends get a good laugh out of the failed attemps at censorship.
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Mississauga, ON | Re: 42%? What the fuck? That's way too low, and here's why. Oh *please* don't tell me that porn is a vital party of child and teenagehood. If you wanna see it, you will. If you dont, you may come across it accidentally, and i know i do many times when i'm researching or just googling some stuff.
It's funny because many of you are laughing at the stats just because your horny pigs. Yeah, i know it seems unbelievable that someone actually WOULDN'T want to watch porn, isn't that just vile?! Anyways, people have to realize that not everyone sits at home and whacks off 12 hours a day. The stats are right, and MANY, MANY people don't WANT to look, see or acknowledge the porn. YOU may love the porn, but not everyone does.
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1 edit | Re: 42%? What the fuck? That's way too low, and here's why. I didn't say I loved the porn. Isn't part of being condescending posting a smiley face without a typo, or saying "you're" properly? No cookies for you.
I said I find it hard to believe that in the natural path of life, 58% of all underaged people didn't come across porn, whether they actively pursued porn or not. | |
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Camden, TN | I call BS on this Yeah yeah in the mid 80's I "accidently" saw Playboy, Penthouse, Huster and OUI. I mean I minding my own business and BAM. These dirty mags just plop down right in front of me. I mean I didn't even ask for them or want to look at them.
Fact is if partents actually used parental controls, pop-up blockers, anti-spyware and anti-virus programs thier kids would NEVER "accidently" see any porn. So either these kids are lying( oh what a shock a kids lying about how they got access to porn. Only been going on since the 1950s ) or their parents are just igorant about computers in which case they shouldn't have any.
It never ceases to amaze me how people spend hundreds of $$$ or more on a computer, but never learn the first things about how they work or how to properly operate and protect it.
For the record my boy is almost 12 he has been online for over 5 years now and has NEVER seen any porn, accidental or otherwise. Funny how that works. | |
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| Well, a grain of slat here... ...first, most parents don't set parental controls, or filters, because they themselves may chose to view porn...and/or because they frankly are too lazy to employ the very minimal amount of time required to set them in place.
Secondly, I will wager that somewhere in the neighborhood of most to nearly all young 10 to 17 year olds "want" to see pron in one form or another, and many of them most actively sek it out...in "my day", it was usually the Playboy/Penthouse magazine...cause that was what was around, now, of course, it is the 'net. In "my day" as a misbegotten "Yute", I, and almost every one of my fellow trashy little freinds, all wanted to see porn (naked ladies)...and we all pretty much did, so I fail to see this as exactly "earth-shattering" territory.
I am not defending porn as a fabulous endeavor, but it has been around as long as mankind, and it is rather silly to believe that somehow the Internet is any more responsible for young folks accessing porn, than I blame the corner drugstore some 35 odd years ago...It is even more foolish to presuppose that some new restrictive rules will in any way dissolve the "great porn meanace"...
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| | | | Re: Well, a grain of slat here... My how the USA has changed! The year was 1965 and I was a still a snot nose kid of 17+. However, Uncle Sammy and the American Joe/Jane public made sure (via their support & taxes) that I was well protected from all bad in this world. I was allotted 2 cartons of cigarettes per week for 12 cents a pack, 2 quarts of booze per week for $5.00 a bottle. Also, since I wasn't of legal age (18) to drink off (outside)any U.S. Naval base, I could drink all I wanted on (inside) any U.S. Military base.
They even were nice enough to have setup clubs called enlisted mens clubs where I could smoke, drink, watch topless dancers, and generally have a good time. Of course the real protection from porn came when the Navy showed me all those training films about the female anatomy, how to properly have safe sex, and exposure to all those brothels overseas (Alongopo Philipines, Yoko & Sasebo Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.).
In fact, I had been shown porn, provided with smokes, booze, and whores, all before I had turned 18. Even got a dose of the clap in Hong Kong. All curtesy of the good old USA and I won't go into the fact that I could have got my ass killed before I made it to 18.
Yes the world has turned over many times since 1965. Most of the crap posted above would be considered a form of gross child abuse in todays touchy feely USA society.
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