Go on...Put your hand on your mom's thigh....
In the west I think people are more likely to be fucked up by sex than by violence. With porn and sex addictions rampant it kind of makes sense that there seems to be a sublimanal aversion to exposing children to anything like that.
Most westerners arent gonna get shot at or seek out violence in their lives. Everyone however has a libido to answer to, and ultimatley control or succumb to. Why begin that battle before its necessary?
This general attitude far predates internet porn. It may even go back our Puritan roots.
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Sure its always been there. There has never been more "temptation" than this very moment though. Actually parents letting their kids view any kind of sexuality is fairly new.
“New” where and in what context?
For the vast majority of human history folks made very little substantial delineation between children and adults. The concept of “childhood” itself is very new. That’s not to say people went around raping kids or exposing them to sexuality (although that did happen) but they thought very little of children seeing or knowing about sex/violence.
Sure, youre right. I havent thought about it too thoroughly in my defense. The modern west has always had an odd relationship with sexuality. Free love and censorship can coexist apparently.
As a kid, my parents would strongly and publicly ( in front of the family) chastise and admonish the person who got such a movie from the movie club.When I was a kid growing up, when we were watching a movie with the family and a sex scene comes up, we had to cover our eyes. Weird because if there was even extreme violence/gore, the family didn't give a shit.
Keep in mind, this was in another country that I was born and raised in.
Same thing now that I'm a parent. When my daughter was growing up, we had to fast forward the sex scenes on movies. Now, I do my research on what movies to watch with the family. Gotta pick them family movies.
How about you guys?