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According to Symantec, which used its OnlineFamily.Norton service to track 3.5 million kids' searches anonymously, "sex" and "porn" are respectively the fourth and sixth most popular search terms among younger browsers. "YouTube" and "Google" came in as number one and two, respectively. (Though we're not sure why you'd have to search for a search engine.) Overall, kids' search terms didn't look all that different from those of adults, with the exception of the name "Fred," a popular YouTube performer, who came in at number nine.
Marian Merritt, Symantec's Internet safety advocate, summed up our feelings pretty well when she told the BBC, "I think we have all gotten over our shock that the Internet has porn."
Of course, there's no way of knowing if these are actually kids' favored search terms. OnlineFamily.Norton is geared towards kids aged 8 to 13, but -- since the data was collected anonymously -- the results could easily have been skewed by parents or older children doing their own browsing and forgetting to turn off the software. Symantec didn't even define what constitutes a "child" in its research. It might be a little disturbing if a 6-year-old is googling porn -- little less shocking if it's a 16-year-old. [From: BBC]
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Subscribe to commentsAaronAug 12th 2009 8:51PM
In other news. Sky continues to appear blue, air contains oxygen, gravity holds you on the ground.
JVAug 12th 2009 9:58PM
ahaha. What he said. I like my beer cold, my tv loud, and my internets full of pr0ns.
WallyAug 12th 2009 10:26PM
Lol,@Aaron you crack me up. That's right boys and girls, the internets is saving the world!
McLuvin16Aug 12th 2009 10:59PM
yo chill its just porn lol jk i know its bad but they r woundering about things u know so yeah just chill wow they r looking at porn at least they r not getting diseases
wolviedadaAug 12th 2009 11:40PM
amen................
mombloggerAug 14th 2009 7:25PM
This is a more serious problem than most parents think, especially on devices like iPod Touch that kids can use from anywhere without supervision. I have setup an internet filtering and monitoring service on my daughter's iTouch from www.mobicip.com. It seems to work pretty effectively, and I can see the web activity logs. Check it out.
TERRIAug 16th 2009 6:23PM
PORNOGRAPHY VICTIMIZES WOMEN AND CHILDREN. IT DOES THIS BY OBJECTIFYING THEM. YOU CAN'T RESPECT AN OBJECT. PORN IS NOT A "VICTIMLESS CRIME" IT IS THE NUMBER ONE TOOL PREDATERS USE IN THE SEDUCTION OF CHILDREN.
THERE IS A STRONG CONNECTION BETWEEN PORN USE AND ADULTERY.
PORN IS SEXUALLY DEMORALIZING, AND DEGRADING. THERE IS LITTLE LOVE OR RESPECT INVOLVED. PORN ALSO PUTS SICK, UNNATURAL PRESSURE ON WOMEN. IT DISTORTS WOMEN'S SEXUALITY AND IS DAMAGEING TO THE ESTEEM. MORE YOUNG GIRLS GROW INCREASING UNHAPPY WITH THEIR BODIES AS THE UNNATURAL, SURGERY ENHANCED, AIRBRUSHED PORN SPREADS. (RISE IN VAGINAL SURGERIES TO PLEASE MEN) WE ARE ALL TOLD THAT IT IS NATURAL FOR MEN TO VIEW PORN. THIS IS A LIE. IT IS LIKE SAYING IT IS NATURAL FOR PEOPLE TO BECOME ALCOHOLICS. THERE IS NOTHING NATURAL ABOUT PORN. MEN DO NOT NEED IT. THAT IS A MYTH. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MEN PURSUED WOMEN AND SENT THEM LOVE POETRY. TODAYS MAN EXPECTS SICK SEX ACTS FROM A WOMAN, AND THEY WANT US TO SLEEP WITH OUR SISTER. I FEEL THERE HAS BEEN A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE LACK OF RESPECT AND THE RISE OF PORN. WOMEN WHO PARTAKE IN PORN, : YOU ARE YOUR OWN (AND WOMENKIND'S) WORSE ENEMY.
D2BAug 16th 2009 7:04PM
That's wrong at every level.
I have never cheated on anyone (on the other hand, I was cheated on by an ex-girlfriend), I strongly support gender equality, and I actually hate people who think physical appearance is everything.
Oh, and I have a huge porn collection (I look for porn with natural girls).
Try again when you actually know what you're talking about (and have learned to deactivate caps lock).
(Note that I'm not denying that there are dumb men who see women as objects.. Then again, there are also dumb women who see men as money-making machines)
TerriAug 17th 2009 5:44AM
D2B: Of course you are going to feel that way, for you, 1), are on the safe side of sexism, (it must be nice not to have to worry about rape when you are out) and for 2), of course you are going to "justify" your porn collection in order to make yourself feel better. Most men do.
I would also like to say, you are not the first to point out the caps, (and won't be the last) I make it "all caps" for these "public service messages" (as I like to think of them) I leave on message boards, I feel the caps necessary to get attention for issues I find extremely important. Rude, perhaps, but I also like to think, effective.
I would like to thank you for your polite response. It was not the response I would have liked, but it was done respectfully.
Samantha229487Sep 17th 2010 4:08PM
Okay, I usually don't respond to these things but this just pissed me off. 1. I'm a woman who watches porn and I don't feel victimized, objectified or degraded. You seem to be stating that unverified cannot comment on this issue because he's a man that watches porn. Um, if he can't comment because he's a man you're being ironically sexist. If those who view porn are untrustworthy because "of course we will defend our porn collection's" then who should comment? People who have never watched porn because they think it is "immoral"(because someone told them it was immoral who has also probably never watched porn?). If someone said that dancing was evil and caused diabetes, would it make sense for them to respond to all those who dance and say it doesn't cause diabetes and isn't evil, that, of course they will defend their dancing since they dance and are thus evil by association or whatever? It's logic like yours that led people to believe the tomato was poisenious for hundreds of years.
Actually hundreds of years ago women were treated with a much greater amount of disrespect. Forced marriages, the belief that women should not learn to read or be educated, the belief that women, within the context of marriage, during sex should lay still and never even think of enjoying themselves (lest they be deemed slutty).
Women in porn are womenkinds worst enemy? Why? Because porn can only be pleasing to men? Women can't possibly enjoy looking at attractive men? The industry doesn't exactly cator exclusively to men anymore, the percentage of women who watch porn is going up significantly and with it the market changes and you have female porn directors and producers who make porn designed to appeal above all to WOMEN, more attractive male actors, better acting, etc. And what about guy on guy porn? Are women being exploited there? I don't see how as they aren't in the movies (frankly I'm quite fond of watching that).
Alcohol is a forgein substance put into the body with the intention (particularly of alcoholics)of reaching another state of concousness. Porn is watching people have sex. Sex is so natural wiithout it there would be no human existance.
kmckinnonAug 17th 2009 1:10PM
Anyone forget that it's not just men that view porn?
Jeez.