16/17 year olds allowed to watch porn.

[Wessex]

Discuss !!!!

Chris

[steve56]

this is already being discussed on the o/t forum next door.

[Ace]

IMO, VERY wrong.
As is using this to secure votes.
We all know porn is VERY easily accessible to too many underage minors, but to give them a free rein to go into sex shops is quite disturbing.
Lib Dems also want people at 16 to be able to choose to appear in porn. That too, is VERY wrong. If Charles Kennedy had ANY morals OR scruples, he will resign for even THINKING of this.

[Wessex]

Sorry didn't relise that...........thought it would be very much ON topic and of interest to those of us who never go 'next door'.

Chris

[DavidS]

If this ever became a reality, not that it is likely to. It will give moralist plenty of ammunition to get all our freedoms to watch porn restricted. Perhaps that's the idea!

[joe king]

'We all know porn is VERY easily accessible to too many underage minors, but to give them a free rein to go into sex shops is quite disturbing'

If they are old enough to have sex then they are old enough to go into a sex shop.

This is also related to the new sex laws which will outlaw topless/indecent images of 16 year olds. Do you think images of topless 16 year olds should be outlawed? ~I have a book of the Model Kate Moss - a picture from 1990 shows her topless , she was about 16yrs old.

A proposal the sensation press missed was
'6. The law of blasphemy should be abolished.'

I note the news story had lots of 'religious' groups. Why should they dictate what people do sexually?

Maybe they should change the age of marriage to 21, and the age of legal alcohol consumption to that as well (like in good old America).
More people are harmed by drinking alcohol than any sex. An 16 yr olds can get this 'peoples drug' just by walking down the road.

[sandie]

does anyone know who bought about this "bill" - sorry i only know the yank terms for polictics due to watching to much yank tv.

It has to be someone inside porn - so who???

if this is true tho maybe we should make the lib dems our target for raising porn awarenes in parliment like david s says.

p.s i cant believe those nancy religious mary whitehouse types are still saying porn is explotitive.

im off to find some website i can put my POV on about how religion is explotative and porn is cool.

[Pussy_eater]

If an 18 year old girl can give birth to 3 babies by 3 different men - Why can't a 16 year old watch porn!

How old were some of you when you first saw anything "PORNOGRAPHIC" I think I was about 14!

[Bayleaf]

I agree Joe, if you're old enough to legally do it, and are judged responsible enough to have children that require a lifetime of looking after, then watching porn seems rather mild by comparison.

If two 17 year old couples decide to have sex in the same room, must they keep their eyes closed?

Seems to me that the two ages should be the same, and judging by the levels of responsibility my teenagers exhibit this should be at least 18. Drink, screw, vote and watch porn.

[Pianaman]

I wish I'd seen more porn before starting having sex - I'm sure those first experiences would have been less clumsy and more fun if I had for both parties I think a lot of people would have a better initial experience of sex if they had been able to learn more about it beforehand by watching people doing it for pleasure.

Of course it would be important to also ensure that the legal age for homosexual sex is lowered to 16 as well - it is ridiculous that this is still at 18.