The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography - eviltoast
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    The majority of those are coming across it accidentally

    Source: teenagers caught in the act by their parents

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      I used to accidentally find nudie mags in the woods with my friends. Why didn’t these guys do anything for me and my forest safety?

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          When we were kids, we used to collect paper to get money for school trips and such. For us it was minly to find porn and find out who has a LOT of porn at home.

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            Wait, people would just give you their porn to recycle or whatever you did with the paper to turn it into school trips? You’d figure they’d be a bit more discreet in how they got rid of their porn, like hiding it in a box in the woods.

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              They didn’t give a fuck. People who had porn back then had A LOT of porn. I assume they had multible subscriptions to get porn weekly. I assume, i can’t remember they kinda hid it under some newspaper, but if you have one newspaper for every 10 porn magazines, it’s kinda hard to hide.

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          WTAF - I thought it was just us that struck gold. I mean, the magazines were sort of damp (from the forest!! From the forest!!) but we COULD not believe our luck when we found that motherload in the forest.

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            Who leaves it there though? And it was always years out of date.

            Is there a jazz mag fairy we weren’t told about? “You need to behave now, otherwise the porn fairy won’t leave a 1984 copy of Readers Wives in the elderberry tree!”

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      Outside the box solution: don’t age restrict access to porn. Every teenager is going to get it anyway.

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        Couldn’t agree more if I cared to try.

        Methinks this is much more about controlling and surveilling adults than “protecting” children from porn. If it was ever really about the latter at all.

        • primal_buddhist@lemmy.world
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          It’s about the latter but it doesn’t have to work, just looks like you took action to solve a Daily Mail agenda…

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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        Teenagers would get porn before the Internet. Before printed porn they’d carve it into cave walls. The “fertility goddesses” they find all over the neolithic are probably porn.

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      The majority of those are coming across it accidentally

      We’ll… I mean… it doesn’t exactly accidentally come out of you. You have to be touching it for some time.