On 2026-03-10, Van Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2026-03-10 at 16:12 +0000, Bigsy Bohr wrote: >> I don't entirely disagree. I think, in France, they once said that >> over >> 25% of all 12-year-olds had seen hard porn on the Internet. I think >> that's a problem. But I don't know how to solve it. Maybe it is >> unsolvable in this day and age. > > I grew up on a farm. Long before the internet was even a gleam in > Cerf's or Berners-Lee's eye, I saw hard porn almost every day. I don't > remember how young I was the first time. That's the way it used to be > for 95% of us. The only difference from today is that it wasn't human > porn. >
That isn't my experience at all. I grew up in L.A. We only had access to soft-core magazines; to see hard porn, you had to travel to a movie theater in a seedy part of town. Impossible to get by the cashier for a 12-year-old. This is far, far different from current situation. YMMV.
