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hangingfire ([info]hangingfire) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-02-05 13:12:00


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Current music:They Might Be Giants, "The End of the Tour"

Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?!
I come bearing more Lede wank. Today, the Lede posts about how the kids of today are getting an eyeful of pr0n online:

It will probably come as no surprise to most Internet users that a new survey, published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics (an abstract is available here), found that nearly half of all young people reported exposure, intentional or otherwise, to online pornography.

Forty-two percent of the 1,500 youngsters (ages 10 to 17) who were surveyed by telephone between March and June 2006 reported such exposure. Two-thirds of those who were exposed said the exposure was “unwanted,” according to the study; the exposure occurred most often when using file-sharing programs to download images.
The very first poster in the comment thread brings the wank:
This problem would be easy to solve if mom’s behaved like moms by taking proper care of their children. Children need close parental supervision, particularly maternal, all the way through high school. They don’t get it when mom’s off working full time and returning home so tired she just wants to chill out.
And they're off!
Wow Mark- You sure feel threatened by working women… “Beats me why women think having a career is such a big deal”… How stupid are you? Your question is the same a women asking men why we need to have a career? Why don’t you stay at home and take care of kids?
And that's just the beginning.


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(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 01:42 am UTC (link)
Reading the article there, and the various other article around, what seems to be going on is that "unwilling" viewing of pornography including things like file-sharing and hanging around in chatrooms and other internet socialization. In the former case, we're probably looking at situations in which a popular more-or-less innocuous item has been placed on a file-sharing network with its content replaced by pornography, or a piece of pornography has it's name replaced with something pornographic (So "The Report of the Independant Counsel" is renamed "HARRY POTTER 7 SPOILERS", for example). The kids then download the item, open it up, and rar! PORN! And since it's pornography for vandalism's sake, it's probably not much fun anyway. In the second case, we're probably looking at people posting pornographic macros or linking to pornography.

What's going on, however, is that most of these people are responding by... you know... removing the unwanted pornography and going on with their lives. They have some data that seems to connect various real issues with pornography consumption, but we've got the same issues with correlation that we always have. The interesting thing was that the numbers were higher than a similiar study in, I think, 2000. My guess is that we're looking at greater density of internet use among teenagers than any other major source.

Obviously there's also the self-reporting issue, but in these kinds of studies, you have to assume that it's more or less accurate, because the other option is to not do them.

On the wank, I think this is definately revving up for some moral panic, since Myspace seems to have fallen out of the news. My only hope is that farther down in the thread we get to hear the opinions of the eel shark on all this.

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[info]puipui
2007-02-06 02:43 am UTC (link)
Thank you, mousie, for explaining everything to us in a completely non-humorous way. We needed that.

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[info]elysian
2007-02-06 03:20 am UTC (link)
otf_wank has a reputation to uphold!...

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-02-06 04:00 am UTC (link)
Anal rape is wrong.

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NEEDS MORE WORDS!
[info]puipui
2007-02-06 05:14 am UTC (link)
Really, now, I know you can get at least three paragraphs out of that, if not three comments (damn entry-length limits).

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Re: NEEDS MORE WORDS!
[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-02-06 05:28 am UTC (link)
My therapist tells me that you can never have too much communication in a relationship. Words are part of communication, so that must mean that more words are always better! I see where everyone is coming from now.

Since I care about our relationship, pweepwee, I'll write a five thousand word essay on why anal rape is wrong and post it tomorrow. Just for you.

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Re: NEEDS MORE WORDS!
[info]puipui
2007-02-06 05:08 pm UTC (link)
You like me! You really like me! ♥ ♥ ♥

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 04:28 am UTC (link)
But what are your thoughts on CatSpa?

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iwanttobeasleep
2007-02-06 05:50 am UTC (link)
God you're boring.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-02-06 02:02 pm UTC (link)
I'm sure there has been Eel Shark porn already.

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