Instead of blocking porn altogether for fear of children finding it, why not teach children how to use the internet responsibly?

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I see it a bit like prison. When you lock a man up who has sexual urges, when you put him in an environment where he cannot see his sexual partners, pay for escorts or access pornography or however he met his sexual desires he'll start raping his fellow inmates. It happens, not in every case but the pent up sexual frustration will take over and despite not being gay to satisfy his urges he will force himself on another man. Or perhaps not even force, many male inmates turn into prison 'wives' after being sexually oppressed for so long.

Now imagine a similar environment where one can only get their sexual release by accessing child porn. Just like in the analogy, you put that person in an environment where they can't access it, and they'll start raping kids to get their fill.

I know the internet probably won't go into lock down (yet, it will one day, believe me) but just the notion itself is obviously one that hasn't at all been thought out. I'm not one for bashing the Government, I respect the tough job they do and know that none of the people who rant and rave about them would have any idea how to handle a nations budget, etc but this concept of trying to block pornography just has such a horrible backlash waiting to happen that I can't believe it wasn't better thought out. Especially in a day and age where society is as scared of itself as it is anyway, the last thing the government would want is to actually give people a legitimate reason to be scared. They can control the manufactured ones, you can't control some sexually deprived lunatic fucking your 8 year old.

And this won't affect the people using bypasses like Tor (a popular method) even in the slightest.

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I think it would be more effective to teach them about sexuality early instead of it being about the internet, they'll be able to make the judgment about porn early on rather than just stumbling on it and being confused/intrigued and then feeling shameful for having a natural curiosity about sex.

Yeah, I have to assume that any fundie who has a problem with their children being taught about sex in schools, or being told about contraception because they think it encourages them to have sex, has never seen the internet. Your kid is already being groomed as a chronic masturbator/anal addict/donkey ****er, so shut up and let someone else do what you're too much of a pussy to do yourself.

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

i feel that if this would actually happen and somehow porn became scarce then cyber sex would reach an all time high

Sex education in my school was fucking shocking to be fair and I can't imagine it being much better now, Primary school was quite good considering, but secondary school (11-16) we had two single lessons in the 3 years I was there. They covered the very basics of getting pregnant (the man sticks his D in the V) and how to put a condom on. That was it. Had so many questions I didn't know the answer to as well.

Kids will find porn regardless though (me and my mates would find magazines in bushes, steal from shops, nick videos off friend's dads etc so there were plenty of ways to get it before the internet took off) it's just now they've got so much of it a couple of seconds away it's ridiculous.

How do people suggest teaching kids to use the internet responsibly? I think it's completely unworkable.