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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgoroth" data-source="post: 5592365" data-attributes="member: 6674889">the first lesson of pornclub...is...as a teenage boy you find your own porn, and get around your parent's restrictions. This is the real role of a parent, to deny things to their kids they will inevitably get anyway (and in mass abundance, trust me, even in the Bible Belt). You act as a mini-state, where the subjects must learn ways around the official rules to get what they want. good for you! But...let's not overrate maturity too much, or disguise it in the borrowed robes of puritanism, which frankly your post and those like it verge on the edge of. Sure, deny your kids stuff, but don't live under the illusion that they will not be susceptible to those base desires...they will, and so will everyone. The best way to get over temptation is to yield to it, grok it, get bored with it, then move on..that's the real maturity. Assuming your kids will learn it by osmosis betrays a complete over-expectation of the actual power of parenting in this hyper-connected world we live in. You really don't have as much power as you presume to have. Kids will make bad decisions despite your best efforts...actually, making their own mistakes and suffering the consequences is the only real way to learn from them. you can read it from a book, but then do you want a race of people who are too prudent they never take any chances or throw caution to the wind?Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. Kids who are too prudent lose out on something quite valuable : a childhood. Boy, I wish I could go back and make some of the same mistakes I made (and avoid others). I used to love doing the wrong thing for its own sake, within reason. When you grow up, you can get bored of those types of cheap thrills, but as we are all base, vile animals by our nature..being domesticated only muted those impulses...doesn't mean you aren't still beholden unto them. (unless you're delusional that you only get your kicks above the waistline, sunshine). There is no creepier pervert than the zealous puritan, in my books.</blockquote>

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