UK to introduce porn age-checks in July

Yeah I was going to say the same thing about younger people being more and more tech savvy!
I was watching a TV show last night, I think it's called 'let's talk about sex' or something and they were showing all of the old and sometimes modern sex education videos. They all noticed how they only talk about puberty and the purpose of sex being to have a child. Some didn't talk about contraception or the female orgasm or even expressed that sex can be done just for fun and to enjoy the intimacy between two people. They all seemed scared to even show real looking people, resorting to aliens and other non-human characters. Are we all really that ashamed and embarrassed about sex?! Nearly all of them had a negative view on sex, some outright shaming people for having sex. How about they make a sex education video that isn't cringe-worthy, that is real, that shows real, consensual, enjoyable sex and talks about every aspect but in a positive light? There is so much that sex ed leaves out that it's no wonder that young kids look elsewhere for information! They'll find out themselves or another way so why not just say it in sex ed? They should be investing in better sex ed, not further limitations on porn. It seems totally backwards in this day and age. Maybe when the next generation become politicians and policy makers, replacing the uptight, misinformed, close minded generation, things will improve.

i mean i still think porn is bad for your brain ive not touched the stuff it creates such a jarred perception of relationships and what men and women really look like. i think its especially bad for young children if they get in the habit of it

When my Sister was 8 I would sometimes find evidence of porn in her browsing history.
from the URL's it looked like popups

My sister lead a very sheltered life and I do not believe at 8 yrs old she went out looking for porn [She probably wouldn't have even known what it was]

You don't have to be looking for porn to have it forced upon you

And did she look at it, or close it immediately? If the latter then that proves my point about children only looking at it when they're ready. And if you were that concerned then you should have set up a firewall to block the sites they were coming from, or even simpler, installing an adblocker. I'm more concerned about what websites she was going on to get those popups, as sites normal 8 year olds go on do not have sexually explicit ads. The problem might not have been from the ads themselves.

And plus, this porn ban won't do anything to stop cases like these. Those popups to 'sign up and *** in 5 minutes' or whatever would still be legally allowed to happen. That's more a problem of ads in general that won't be fixed by restricting pornographic websites.

Isn’t the idea to stop children stumbling upon it? You don’t exactly stumble onto a porn site do you? Whereas you can easily do that on Twitter ,for example if you type in 3 perfectly innocent letters when looking for the news.

No idea what she looked at or if she closed it immediately. At that point in time I was officially banned from using the family PC [had my username deleted] and was still living at my parents house and had no PC or laptop or internet ready device. I had made an exploit floppy disk and decrypted all their passwords and had them revealed to me and was using my sisters login to get on the internet when everybody was out. Whilst clearing up evidence of my own internet usage I noticed that she had been exposed to porn on occasions.

I thought about telling my parents but in doing so would have completely given myself away and surely faced some kind of large punishment for hacking away their passwords not to mentioned they would have prevented me from using the internet again [probably start locking that room or something]

This was a long time ago and I can't remember what websites she was visiting but the porn sites in the history were always obscure looking with urls don't look like the type you'd find if you were simply googling pornographic words and i found no evidence of google or search engine searches for such words either [and i don't believe an 8 year old would be deleting their google history]

Like I've said many times, everyone I know started watching at 12-13 years old, and none of us are addicted perverts or have unrealistic expectations. This 'it teaches children to have unrealistic expectations' is a myth for the most part. Of course bad things happen relating to porn usage but so does pretty much everything else; things like sugar cause 100x more problems than porn for children, yet the government isn't looking to ban it for under-18s. Yes it's a good idea in theory but when you look at it, it becomes obvious how incompetent and malicious it is.

Do you really know enough about all your friends personal lives to make conclusions about their addictions and expectations?
Also 'unrealistic expectations is mostly a myth' but says who?

tbf instilling porn addiction from a young age is less than ideal but this is a bit of an unwieldy legislative tool to use seeing as it deters literally everybody whilst also doing nothing to stop teenagers who are determined to watch it anyway.

I'll probably use it as an excuse to go cold turkey for a bit, feel as though I use it a little bit too often.

i think the gov are well aware teenager are going to get around it no matter what they do. seems like this is not about stopping a 17 year old watching it but more of a 8 year old watching it. i.e. a child who doesn't understand how a VPN or other similar ways work

But you just don't stumble across porn sites... you search for them. Everyone who is able to search for a porn site would also be able to read threads like this which tell them to get a vpn, They can get a really janky one from Google play store and Boom they can now access porn.

But where do you actually stumble across porn? Places like twitter,reddit, google (Google searches for a character may bring up rule 34, these images may not be hosted on a porn site), This government action will not stop this.

Do you really know enough about all your friends personal lives to make conclusions about their addictions and expectations?
Also 'teaching children unrealistic expectations is mostly a myth' says who? Or is this just an assumption.

I think that most kids are finding porn by typing sex into google image search and results returned are an infinite and unrestricted amount of hardcore porn with links available. Majority of adults would agree it shouldn't be that easy. Typing sex into google doesn't mean you could also understand how getting around blocks work.