Comment by alt227
2 days ago
> I was exposed to pornography online at age 9....allowing kids first sexual experiences to be pornography
I was initially exposed to pornography at 8 years old, by finding a disgarded magazine in a hedge. However this was pretty soft.
I was exposed to serious pornography at 10 years by finding a hidden VHS tape in the back of a drawer at a friends house and getting curious. This was hardcore German stuff with explicit violence. This has caused me to have therapy in my lifetime.
This was all in the 80s by the way.
Therefore anything you are mentioning happened long before the internet, and is totally possible in a completely offline world as well. So how do these new digital laws 'protect children' again?
I think there's a non-trivial legal and ethical difference between distributing material (whether as a sale or not, or for profit or not) and a child finding material that was distributed to an adult.
The equivalence with alcohol would be finding an alcohol bottle in your parent's cabinet. It's not the same as buying alcohol while you are 10, and it's in no way an excuse to allow the sale of alcohol to minors.
No-one is selling pronography to minors. I guess your analogy lends itself more to minors walking into stores and seeing pornography magazines and DVDs for sale, which happens everywhere all the time.
The point is it can be accidentally stumbled upon in many different situations, so why focus so heavily on a draconian online law which doesnt actually stop children from seeing pornography?