“back in the day, porn used to be a challenge to watch for a kid…hide the dirty magazine, quickly switch away from the nudey channel…now all these kids need to do is turn on MTV and they’ve got all the T&A they could need”
This is a very interesting point. I’m not going to discuss any watching of pornography on my part, as I’m trying to build a respectable image for myself, but I couldn’t agree more. 10 years ago, MTV still played music videos, nobody knew what the hell DSL was, and there wasn’t a phone with web-browsing capabilities that allowed you to stream porn. I can’t say that I would have tried to watch porn if it were that easy back at that age. It seems like society is moving towards a world where you can have whatever, whenever… WHERES THE THRILL? Don’t people like to break any rules anymore? Has every taboo become entirely obliterated by technology? What joy does a kid even find in watching porn on their laptop when they don’t have to worry about their mom walking in and seeing? NONE, Why? Because all it requires is switching a window or closing the screen, there’s no ‘oh shit where’s the remote, crap I’m going to get caught if I don’t switch the channel’.
If porn doesn’t become more of a task to watch and get caught watching, the youth as we know it will no longer have those awkward moments in their life when a parent walks in and sees what should be private. Apatow will go broke, we’ll never have another Seth Rogen to write about his awkward high school life, movies trying to be the next Superbad will start to become even more unfunny…the list goes on and on. So,
Parents: Crack down on your kid’s porn watching habits.
Porn Industry: Keep up the good work.
