Sexuality and Pop-Up Websites

One of the many dramas that are building up about children and porn. In this case, a teacher accidentally showed a bunch of students a ton of porn. She was brought to court and actually faces up to 40 years of prison for endangering children by showing them naked people. Apparently she also testified that the school’s filter for preventing this has expired (which leads to other issues) and that they were popups, but that didn’t really help with the fact that she probably lost her license.

Related to that is a teenage boy who was going to be arrested/convicted and marked as a sex-offender for having child porn on his computer. He claimed it was, like above, backdoors and popups and that he didn’t personally view them. In that case, they had a plea-bargain for him getting a conviction for sharing Playboy with some friends.

Now, that points out a few things. Sharing Playboys is illegal. So, I can’t share my magazines with my friends? Despite the fact one of them hands me his old ones so we can both read it? The idea of you can’t share magazines is terrible.

Also, the zero tolerance thing is getting really annoying. I hate zero tolerance. Another teacher is suffering because of something she may or may not have done and we are quickly moving into a place where people will be afraid of the Internet because “bad things” happen out there.

Children are not hurt by seeing naked people.

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Yes, but he is sixteen also. So, he, as a minor, is guilty of a crime of showing Playboys to people of his age? Damn, if that was the case, most of the kids I grew up are guilty of the same damn thing. Hell, my father would be because I went through his Penhouse collection twenty-five years ago.

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I’m just waiting for the day that nudist groups will have to ban anyone under the age of 18. sigh It is still stupid.

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Another case of children seeing porn. In this case, they aren’t trying to convict the teacher and the printing company is trying to find out if there are other tapes like it. I suspect someone reused a VHS tape, but that’s me. However, there was one line that stood out:

[quote:3mzmcqyz]”I cannot tell you how sorry and how mortified we all are that your fourth-graders had such a horrifying experience with one of our titles,” said Adrienne Schure, a School Specialty vice president.[/quote:3mzmcqyz]

Give me a second.

[b:3mzmcqyz]SEX IS NOT HORRIFYING![/b:3mzmcqyz]

Geeze, sex is not a terrible thing. Movies of people being slaughtered or video games that encourage it are more horrifying that something that every damned parent did at least one and is one of our primary drives. Sex is not horrible, terrible, or something that should be sheltered.

sigh Sorry, I’m getting cranky. If given a choice, I’d rather show children sex than violence. Interestingly, my neighbor is the exact opposite of that. She thinks that violence is perfectly fine in a computer game, but can not even stomach the idea of sex in games.