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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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aeanagwen
2007-02-06 05:20 am UTC (link)

Well, probably stashed behind the bedroom couch or up out of reach on the tape shelf doesn't count as 'out in the open.' I was one of those kids that waits for their parents to leave the house then goes and digs around in everything out of sheer curiosity. My sister and I found a tape marked 'Cinderella' that way and rewound to try to get to it, and ended up with an eyeful of boobies from what I can only assume some kind of dressing scene.

But when I was a few years older, I did get a mythological fantasy romance novel from my mother with the advice, "I thought you might like the story; just skip the sex bits," and a distinctly erotica-tinged fantasy novel from my father that I wish I remembered the name of because I rather liked it.

But oh, man, did lemons still come as a shock in my early days of exploring the Sailor Moon fandom.

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ironymaiden
2007-02-07 02:55 am UTC (link)

I was one of those kids, too. I snooped through the jewelry box where they keep passports, credit cards, etc one day when I was a kid, and found naked pictures my mom had sent my father when he was stationed overseas, back when they were first married.

I mean, I'd seen my parents naked before, but never one in a sexual manner. I shoved those back in the box really fast and never snooped in there again.

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