(02-10-2013 01:12 )eccles Wrote: [ -> ] (01-10-2013 19:35 )matt38 Wrote: [ -> ]Need to know if someone watched that Channel4 programme last night about porn, I saw a few minutes and some school kids about aged 14/15 were discussing what type of porn they had seen if any, some had, some not, my query is, I wonder if someone from Ofcom was watching because it might have opened their eyes to what kids watch, and from what I could tell these kids all seemed normal teenagers.
I saw a small part of this...
Finally managed to sit through the whole documentary without interruptions or company, and all I can say is what a load of unbalanced shite.
I have better things to do, but might just put in a complaint to Ofcom about lack of balance, but to do that I would have to sit through the whole thing again taking notes.
It wasn't just the constant appalled look on the presenters face. Or the awful way he was using his 4 year old kid for human interest. It was the sheer abuse of so called science.
20 porn addicts had brain scans, and what do you know, they showed signs of addiction. So what? It would have been surprising if they did not.
A young man with porn addiction was filmed as he drove his car round, saw an attractive woman and immediately had to pull into a pub, rush into the loo and have a J Arthur. The man freely owned up to masturbating 20 times a day. That's not normal and his lack of control says no more about ordinary people than seeing a gambling addict have a bet they could not afford or an alke with a tin of Special Brew at 9am.
The presenter typed "porn" into Google and was presented with a series of extreme images that he appeared to examine in detail, including (what I hope was) a woman dressed as a school girl being fisted by someone purporting to be her father - he watched that for a while. I dont know about you, but my experience of search results is different, with far fewer extreme links and I don't click on those ones. Instead he seemed to concentrate on the horror stories.
He quoted a survey of young males (14-16?) saying their experience of porn was that it was getting "more extreme", but totally failed to quantify what their starting point was, or whether that meant the internet was getting more extreme or just that their personal experience was getting stronger, possibly because their parents were relaxing adult filters, or the boys themselves were searching differently.
The presenter even seemed shocked at the idea that introducing sex education at a young age helps prevent 80% of teenage pregnancies. (There was no mention that it might also help catch paedos if young kids are taught that sex with them is wrong and can be stopped). While it might be uncomfortable to discuss sex with a 4 year old, that is hardly "robbing him of his childhood". Young kids are far more bothered about other things, like bullying and homework.
In short, an unbalanced piece.
