VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1359113770|CONTENT|Sorry, but I can&#039;t see the fuss about porn. Below a certain age (approx. puberty, a bit before), children generally aren&#039;t interested in it - it makes them feel embarrassed and awkward. And above that certain age, when they *are* interested in it, you won&#039;t be able to keep them away from it however hard you try, so why bother? It&#039;s like pushing a river.

The difference nowadays is that in my day (I was a teenager in the 70&#039;s) you had to make an effort to find your porn. You couldn&#039;t just go into the newsagent and pick it off the shelf and walk out with it. Mags were treasured.

Nowadays it&#039;s all too easy to surf on the web. Even if mummy and daddy have set up &quot;parental controls&quot; on your computer, there are ways round it - someone in your class will have less lax controls, and so no worries, you&#039;re in.

And besides, I&#039;m still skeptical about whether or not viewing porn does actually cause damage to children. If so, then my goodness, we were *all* damaged. (Perhaps the symptoms of such damage is my inability to blindly accept the truth of the outpourings from social doom-sayers like Ms Pepinster.) For example, I will *not* accept the hypothesis that looking at porn makes one a rapist, despite the (possible) correlation between the two - correlation is not causation.

As for making up 5-year-olds in mascara and the rest of the war-paint, yes, how sad. Shrug. It just shows up the fact that certain mothers have not a particularly high aspiration for their daughters - and what little girl doesn&#039;t like dressing up? That&#039;s just the way of the world.
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