posted December 01, 2015 09:18 PM            

Porn Before Puberty - ABC News- Nightline

Which offers some jaw-dropping statistics, such as, 9 out of 10 children/teens age 8-16 have seen porn on the internet.

A 12 year-old girl featured on the show talks about how there is really no one to teach them about growing up with and on the internet. "We are the pioneers," she says. She also says that by 8th grade, boys in her class were looking at porn on their phones during school hours, and showing it to the girls.

I guess this must seem matter-of-fact to a lot of younger people here, but it's shocking to me.

Exposure seems almost inevitable, along with teenagers and parents clashing over what can and can't be done over the internet.

So I'm wondering what you all think, what your experiences are...especially if you have this placement yourself.

More specifically I'm wondering what potential good is coming of this? And what is the harm? Are we really just devolving into a totally dysfunctional sexual free-for-all culture? Especially with the recent Pluto-Uranus squares...recalling the 60's and free love hippies...we seem to be headed there.

All thoughts welcome.

posted December 02, 2015 02:59 PM            

I think we must be as low as it gets?

knock on wood

posted December 02, 2015 03:08 PM            

I wish I knew more people on a personal level who have Neptune in Aquarius, but that's a generation that seems to have skipped my life, mostly.

People I know/relative either had kids at very young ages (so their kids have Neptune in Capricorn), or are just now having kids, like I did (so they have Neptune in Pisces).

That is an interesting observation regarding the generation, and the placement.

Hopefully that generation will quickly figure out how to school all of us on how to deal with that type of thing.
My son watches shows on Netflix, and is allowed to play video games (something we thought we would never allow, but...I like video games), but I have to closely watch what he clicks on.

posted December 02, 2015 08:50 PM            

I only knew one girl who had porn magazines in her house, I guess they were her father's, so I saw that around age 13...very strange indeed But we were curious and I guess the main issue for me is, we knew what we were doing. Whereas kids these days might just click the wrong thing and it leaps out at them. Then you have kids going on FB barely dressed, being sexualized really early on through peer pressure...just seems a depressing way to grow up, wandering around in a danger zone and not having the wisdom to see the traps for what they are.

Right, internet relationships that never transfer to real life....that's another thing more and more people will have. Everything with its pros and cons. Just seems very chaotic or anarchistic to me. But maybe this is the stepping stone to Pisces Neptune and its more meditative, transcendent coping mechanisms. One learns that others may always be illusory whether you know them "in real life" or not, so it's best to cultivate a more permanent inner happiness.

posted December 02, 2015 08:57 PM            

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Originally posted by Vajra:
*ETA* One thing I find potentially positive about modern internet culture is that kids who don't fall into the spectrum of the sexual mainstream do not need to feel like complete oddballs any more, as many did back then, because they can find out much easier and earlier that there are many others with the same or similar feelings and inclinations. That must be a lot better than back in those days where e.g. one gay boy might have felt very isolated in a small village with lots of people who might have been judgmental towards gays.

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True.

One possible downside to that is exacerbating the teen identity crisis because now there are so many options/labels to choose from. People get caught up in labels, attached to them, complicating their lives.

I looked so much like a boy at one point in high school that I'm positive, in this day and age, I would have had to field questions about being transgender. And with my loopy Pisces moon square Neptune, I probably would've just blown wherever the wind blew, letting people tell me who I was, encouraging me to drive my sexuality in this or that direction. Back then, it just wasn't a big deal, I had a tomboy phase (or five) and came out of it when I felt like it. No drama. I liked the lack of drama.

posted December 03, 2015 07:08 PM            

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Originally posted by aquaguy91:
I guess us Neptune in Capricorn folks are old school. I remember the joy I felt when I discovered dirty magazines back in the 90s. I also remember staying up late to see softcore porn on the movie channels. They usually came in fuzzy but I could kind of see boobs so I didn't mind. #thegoodoledays

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Oh god

Yeah Cappy Neptune was so conservative that way...

posted December 03, 2015 07:14 PM            

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Originally posted by Vajra:
I'm way more afraid of than her being exposed to porn which to me as a kid was mainly funnily dressed adults doing weird plumbing experiments with their anatomy.... sort of!

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ROTFL

Wow, I will never forget that analogy now.

I have to remember that exposure doesn't mean addiction. Most of my friends were curious about porn and watched a bit of it, for a little while, in our late teens. I don't think it really affected us. For me it was a passing phase.

My parents allowed us to drink under-age, on the premise that it was better to think of alcohol matter-of-factly. Sure enough none of us turned out to be alcoholics.