lewdness-meta surface-of-the-sun take [not actually lewd, should be safe for Minors™ to open] 

I don't really get the whole "let's make sure kids Never See Lewd Stuff" thing.

It's like "oh Sex is Evil, things-that-aren't-sex-but-are-still-Fun are Evil, Think of the Pure Uncorrupted Children!"

As if merely /knowing about/ sex and kink Corrupts you somehow. Ruins your, I dunno, Cognitive Virginity.

re: lewdness-meta surface-of-the-sun take [not actually lewd, should be safe for Minors™ to open] 

@IceWolf How do I put this... on one hand, exposing kids to outright porn is a bad idea, but at the same time... there *really* ought to be a better way around this all than treating the whole matter as "*poof!* You just turned 18, that means you're an Adult™ now!" as if people don't both develop at different rates and even ignoring that, would greatly benefit from being eased into this whole thing rather than taking such an either/or approach to it all.

re: lewdness-meta surface-of-the-sun take 

@Thaminga Yeah.

Didn't think about porn being a bad idea... but maybe that's because I've never seen "normie" porn in my life, and I've heard that sets pretty weird expectations.

porn meta re: lewdness-meta surface-of-the-sun take 

@Thaminga I honestly wonder if Kink Porn would be better than traditional porn.

...if you took out like, the nonconsensual stuff... *shudders*

Probably one way it helps is by making very clear up front that not everyone is into this stuff.

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