Comments on: Sex News: Datasexuals, Testicle Crushing Death, Brogrammers, Dan Savage, Maggie Gyllenhaal http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2012/04/sex-news-datasexuals-testicle-crushing-death-brogrammers-dan-savage-maggie-gyllenhaal.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Farfetch http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2012/04/sex-news-datasexuals-testicle-crushing-death-brogrammers-dan-savage-maggie-gyllenhaal.html/comment-page-1#comment-25126 Farfetch Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:34:26 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=14911#comment-25126 The Daily Mail's ramblings are usually flitting, if it's not illegal immigrants, it's gypsies or paedophilia, basically anything that they feel they have to protect middle England from. The topic was covered on the BBC (which is usually left leaning) and aside from the quote by the "feminist" who was one of the "porn is evil, it breaks kids brains [citation needed]" types, it was a good article and the comments were largely intelligent and knocking down the ignorant anti-porn stuff with the more obvious protection techniques such as having the PC in a family room not locked in the kid's room and actually supervising and talking to children about the subject. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17826515 The problem really that we have is misinformation - a classic quote from the mum interviewed is: "There might be a lack of evidence about the deleterious effect of porn. But most parents know it would be harmful for both boys and girls." So there is no evidence to support a belief but it must be true anyway?? A far better informed person (a university professor in this area) summed it up far better than I could: "Porn is not part of sex education and we don't talk about what's on the internet. Both parents and teachers are often embarrassed to talk about it. Personal Health and Social Education classes would be the logical place to discuss internet porn. " The Daily Mail’s ramblings are usually flitting, if it’s not illegal immigrants, it’s gypsies or paedophilia, basically anything that they feel they have to protect middle England from. The topic was covered on the BBC (which is usually left leaning) and aside from the quote by the “feminist” who was one of the “porn is evil, it breaks kids brains [citation needed]” types, it was a good article and the comments were largely intelligent and knocking down the ignorant anti-porn stuff with the more obvious protection techniques such as having the PC in a family room not locked in the kid’s room and actually supervising and talking to children about the subject.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17826515

The problem really that we have is misinformation – a classic quote from the mum interviewed is:

“There might be a lack of evidence about the deleterious effect of porn. But most parents know it would be harmful for both boys and girls.”

So there is no evidence to support a belief but it must be true anyway??

A far better informed person (a university professor in this area) summed it up far better than I could:

“Porn is not part of sex education and we don’t talk about what’s on the internet. Both parents and teachers are often embarrassed to talk about it. Personal Health and Social Education classes would be the logical place to discuss internet porn. “

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