This is a good piece of writing from Lizi Patch over at Daily Life, “My son saw violent porn”.
I was looking at this through the eyes of my 11-year-old. He could see that there were gradations of porn. Some of it, though an unrealistic view of sex between two consenting adults, was bearable and allowed you to retain a basic positive belief in the world. But then there was the degrading, shockingly violent porn that showed him a dark underbelly of an online world that until that moment was largely populated by Minecraft and Harry Potter. Faced with this hideous new information, he simply didn’t know where to file it.
Also on this topic, previous posts on blue milk:
What would you do if you found your 13 year old child’s porn viewing history in your browser?
And,
Thanks for this… As a mother of an eight-year-old, I am increasingly becoming aware of how complicated this world is to explain to a child. This article might help me some day.