Is internet porn ruining our next generation? Is censorship the answer?

At a former job we were looking for really flat and thin pieces of aluminum 30 mm diameter. My boss said that when he was doing computer tape drives, there was a process to flatten sheet metal.He said I should search the Web for it. He was pretty sure it was called "spanking".I never found the process, but boy did I find sites.

There you have it. All that porn as a kid led you to chasing bugs with a camera.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

I started out wanting to be a pornographer.....

Tanypteryx"Censorship always seems to go too far."I did indicate that I did not like it either in the O.P..We so not censor all that much in the West and apart from repressive regimes, Hitlerish regimes etc., I do not know of any that have gone too far.What did you have in mind when you made your statement above?Where has who gone too far?Regards
DL

AZPaul3Darn. I guess your report is better than the ones I put up.Strange how they had no numbers for us to really look at.Watching porn must be the only known activity that hurts absolutely no one.Regards
DL

The attempts at censorship I am thinking of were not enacted. Throughout modern history we have seen attempts by various groups to ban all sorts of books from libraries and bookstores. Ban Harry Potter, ban witchcraft books, ban films that say "damn". If we allow some group to ban pornography, how will we stop some group from banning speaking out against the government or corporations.I will never approve of censorship no matter who says it is for the public good.If you are willing to censor someone else then you better be ready to be censored yourself.

Then you misread my message, the article and, if you had wanted to follow the cites, the studies.

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American scholars have come to nearly identical nonconclusions. By the end we looked at 40 to 50 studies, said Eric Owens, an assistant professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and co-author of The Impact of Internet Pornography on Adolescents: A Review of the Research, published in Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. And it became, ‘O.K., this one tells us A, this one tells us B.’ To some degree we threw up our hands and said, there is no conclusion to be drawn here.

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There is a reason I lifted this quote from Dr. Owens for my message. I saw you coming. You can list a dozen cites for A, someone else can counter with a dozen cites for B.What this means is that there is no settled consensus by the experts in the discipline. In other words, We ... don't ... know! We ... don't ... know! (presuppose much?)We ... don't ... know, is a terrible excuse to put limits on the First Amendment.

TanypteryxSo some only attempted to go too far. I agree."If you are willing to censor someone else then you better be ready to be censored yourself."Absolutely.If I was promoting a product that caused a lot of harm I would expect censorship.Strange that the Brits saw the need and took action and the parents in the U. K. did not raise much of a fuss.Then again, they do not jail nearly as many as the U.S. does and might have a more intelligent mind set in terms of trust in their law makers.They are less delusional about our so called freedom than we are here and probably put the health of their children ahead of that notion.Regards
DL

AZPaul3We do know that internet porn is hurting people. I grant that we do not know how many but if you use the net, you can find all kinds of testimonials and workers in the field that are alarmed at the numbers.This has a few and if you want more, let me know.Enough Is Enough: PornographyRegards
DL

Or, they have deluded themselves (and apparently you) that they are doing anything positive for the health of their children?Can you show any evidence that their children are healthier than our children or that how porn is viewed in either country has anything to do with this supposed superior health?

TanypteryxAll I have is an educated hunch.Regards
DL

A hunch, that's good, me too.

If we cannot trust our intelligence and instincts, who or what else can we trust.On this, -------------https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZY8jUuEzJQRegards
DL

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You can list a dozen cites for A, someone else can counter with a dozen cites for B.

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The point is lost on you. Since the topic is the effects of viewing internet porn by teens your clutching at exploitation of sex workers is just smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the science that is out there on that specific topic. Clutch all you want. The science remains inconclusive.

OK, not here. This is a family thread. We need to get back over to your Costa Rica thread and have a talk about those bug pictures you're NOT showing us.