Teenagers Apparently View Online Porn By Accident – Yeah, Right…
A government commissioned study says that 84% of boys aged 16-17 have seen internet porn, but most claim it’s accidental. What horseshit. Here’s a much more accurate view of the situation: 100% of teenage boys are horny little bastards who’ll lie about their porn viewing habits to government researchers because they don’t want to seem like horny little bastards.
The research, which will almost certainly be used by Conroy and his pals to try and reinforce their argument for mandatory internet filtering, also states that two thirds of teenage girls surveyed have viewed porn online as well.
Even though the internet wasn’t anywhere near as prevalent when I was a teenage boy, I can say without a trace of doubt that any teenage boy saying they’d only seen porn online accidentally is lying. Because it’s completely natural for teenagers to be curious about the physical and hormonal changes in their body, and porn offers a fairly easy way to explore and understand those changes, even if it isn’t necessarily the best way.
I can’t speak for women here—never having been one—but I imagine it’s the same across the estrogen fence.
Let’s just hope that somehow the end result of this study is better parenting, rather than the government deciding they’ll try and “fix” the problem themselves…
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“A government commissioned study says that 84 per cent of boys aged 16-17 have seen internet porn, but most claim it’s accidental.”
Replace the word accidental with awesome. Research fixed.
hahahahaha ur awesome man ur f’in hilarious
Ahhh… so awesome.
“Let’s just hope that somehow the end result of this study is better parenting, rather than the government deciding they’ll try and “fix” the problem themselves…”
Too right! Some parents seem to blame other things for their lack of parenting like saying “schools should teach that”. A filtered internet is a snail slow internet.
The estrogen fence?
That’s a brilliant term.
Did the other 16 percent find it on purpose?
100% of them would have visited /b/ or /s/ at one time or another
rules 1 and 2
We don’t want to attract anymore cancer than we already have.
I guess 84% of 16-17 year old boys also suffer from ‘accidental wanking syndrome’…
Yup!
So true.
The very moment i got an internet connection when i was thirteen, i was looking at the pr0n within couple of hours.
actually its a medical fact that the more u slap the sausage, the less chance u will get prostate cancer.
hahahaha accidental? pfft every guy deliberately searches porn…u hardly ever just stumble upon it when your reading the news or reading about gadgets.
But yeah, frankly who cares? Boys look at porn. I’m a boy, I look at porn. Lots of girls do too. Either out of curiousity or horniness, most kids look at porn no matter what.
It’s funny, because in another study 84% of kids between 16-17 say they lie on surveys.
Although you jest, and I can see your point of vies, I can see how this could happen.
I’d shown my little girl (8yo at the time) how to watch Hannah Montana on YouTube.
A couple of weeks later, she called me over and showed me a porn site. How did she get there?
Ever tried typing http://www.youtube.com into the address bar without the ‘y’
She did, accidentally. Guess where it goes?
How pissed was I?
Your fault really, for not supervising your child on the internet. Plenty of good software that controls what your kids see on the net…
LOL they had to survey kids to find they looked at porn? Come on, it should be an assumption.
Teens are horny!
It’s probably better they stay in and watch porn than go and shag anyone, everyone and everything.
It’s also worth putting the report into context. It was not original research, but a “literature reviews” — that is, it reported on what other research had already been done.
That 84% figure comes from a 2003 study by Michael Flood and Clive Hamilton which used a very small sample size, was of suspect methodology and was commissioned by Hamilton himself who is personally one of the key drivers of the “we must filter the internet” campaign.
The full text of the report itself provides all the warnings about the reliability of the numbers. Those warnings do not make it into the headlines.
I wrote more on this over at Crikey but it’ll sit behind their paywall for another 11 days unless you grab a free trial subscription.