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[silversolitaire]

Please read all of these author's works! XD

http://www.livejournal.com/users/fandom_scruples/804.html#cutid1

You go, people! *slaps shoulders*

EDIT: Should I be pouty that I'm not on this list? I have HP pr0n on the net, too, dammit!

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[emanuelle.livejournal.com]

Well I have to say I honestly don't see any material from the internet doing any harm to children, or any more than any form of censorship does. Well, my first porn or horror was disturbing, too, but was it a bad influence in any way? Many things are disturbing and still not inherently bad. Personally I think seeking and being confronted with disturbing and scary things was actually very important for me growing up into an adult. Every day I still see disturbing and scary things and I grow up a little bit more.

I'm not saying we should spoon-feed 8 year olds porn and horror because it's good for them. But as a rule of thumb I think any child that's mature enough to enter "snuff horse anal rape" into Kazaa has the mental equipment to deal with the results. I would just want to be there, have the chance to help them learn to deal with things that scare them. And when you create taboos you'll never get that chance. I think even the attempt to "cleanse" their environment of anything that might or might not be disturbing to them is taking away their chance of learning to deal with possible negative influences in a responsible way.

My own parents just systematically isolated me from anything that could have been disturbing to me, which in the end left me vulnerable and alone when I finally had to deal with all the bad things in the world. To grow up took me much longer than anyone else I know.