Petition to stop children being able to access pornography.

BUMP.

It has been said that people are seldom so innocently employed as when they are using erotica (don't like the term 'pornography' as it is a completely pejorative one). I fail to see what is so dreadful about it.

And when will some Christians keep their noses out of other people's private business?

Whatever people define as pornography/erotica it is not healthy for youngsters to be exposed to it before they are mature enough to understand that pornography /erotica is about power and control and not about an intimate sexual relationship. Images in pornographic/erotic material mostly objectify humans as purely sexual beings. I am no prude but I do not want children to see even soft porn in newsagents /p3 of papers etc because they are not able to understand it. Those who think it harmless obviously have not met children damaged by it and are rather naive. Adults can make their own choices.

I would sign a legitimate petition to make access to porn/erotica very difficult for those under 18 but like others are wary of my signature being used for some propaganda by religious groups!

I've unfortunately seen children damaged by pornography....some worse than others.

One little boy sneaked a peek his dad's SKY porn channel and was so horrified by what he saw he came to me for a bit of one to one TLC at school. He said he couldn't tell me what he'd seen because it would upset me too much to think that people do that but he did manage to say that the ladies had their 'top bits' exposed. I ended up asking his dad to have a man to man chat with him about it.

The worst damaged I knew were three brothers who were exposed to hardcore porn films and photos from an early age. Their attitude to young women was appalling. They couldn't tell the difference between a girl simply being friendly and a girl giving them the come on. Also they genuinely believed that no didn't mean no in sexual circumstances.

Children need to understand about relationships before they're introduced to sex in any form. This means they shouldn't see pornography but also we need to change the storylines in soaps and reintroduce a watershed.

Censorship; a tricky area.

I remember Mary Whitehouse.

Oh, I was thinking of adults looking at porn/erotica, not children.

Young children shouldn't see it of course.

I wouldn't like to see sexual matters going underground and unmentioned again as they were when I was a child.

I agree. It's much better now that we can discuss things.

I think adults can usually make their own minds up.

Re TV watershed /storylines I do think things have got lax and adult issues are now on the screen before 9:00p.m. I know parents are responsible for their children and should be managing them & their viewing but too often that does not happen... often for already vulnerable youngsters.
I think if 'society' at least promoted a more considered attitude towards children and what they can legitimately view before 9:00 p.m then an expectation is set. I am not promoting TV censorship for adults.