Any of you know a good free parental filtering software?

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And I don't even want to see any of the non-biased research for pornography. I've read quick quips from extremely religion-biased research, and that just doesn't cut it for research.

lmao! "I don't want to see any research that cuts against anything I think." What a tool.

The sociology and psychology departments at Harvard, Columbia, University of Michigan, and every other first tier university, along with liberal feminist, victim advocate, and other public interest organizations that work with researchers and experts who graduated from these institutions, which collectively have produced 1000x as much credible research showing a detriment to pornography exposure as excessive internet usage for 20 years longer than the internet has existed, are all run by religious Bible-thumping zealots?

Besides, you're really not qualified to judge how the things you were exposed to during childhood and adolescence has affected you until you are in your mid-to-late 30s, have had some relationships and responsibilities in your life. With other people. Face-to-face. Breathing not optional.

Edit: And even then, a certain percentage of the population who WAS undoubtedly affected adversely by things in their childhood are never going acknowledge or understand it. e.g.

One of my FB friends who graduated a couple years before me has become something of a drama-queen on FB. She is practically an exhibitionist (judging by the photos she uploads of herself), excessively foul-mouthed, has these bitter fights with her mother, de-friends her for a couple weeks, says she literally hates her mother, then adds her mother back on after they reconcile. She openly airs all kinds of shit, and often expresses her pride in being someone who "tells it like it is, love it or leave it." Has three children by different fathers, all of whom she describes as losers (the fathers), cheats, liars, and dead-beats, at least one of them physically abused her.

During a recent email conversation, she confided in me that her father was a drunk who regularly beat the hell out of her and her mother, which is one of the reasons that she hates her mother (for failing to protect her children from an abusive man), but quickly added that she "didn't carry any of that into adulthood."

She is 41 years old and still in serious denial about how her childhood has terribly affected her as an adult, basically has ruined her life to this point.

 

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Cant believe some of the responses im reading, just cause theres ways around it you are not going to make an attempt to make it harder to access ? Thats the same logic as "well there gonna watch porn anyway i might as well leave my playboy laying around"

<sarcasm>Actually, the logic is sound. If we used it with crime investigation we could in fact do away with a great deal of the police force. After all, they can't solve all crimes, so why bother trying to save any? Heck, we could also do away with medical care!</sarcasm>

One of my favorite scenes is in Trainspotting. Spud is getting interviewed for a job he doesn't want but had to do it to keep getting state aid:

Inteviewer: Do you see yourself as having any weaknesses?
Spud: Oh, yes, 'cause, like, I'm a bit of a perfectionist, actually! Yes, I am. See, for me, it's got to be the best, or it's nothing at all. Like things get a bit dodgy, I just cannot be bothered.

Besides, you're really not qualified to judge how the things you were exposed to during childhood and adolescence has affected you until you are in your mid-to-late 30s, have had some relationships and responsibilities in your life.

Agree totally. I think people recently out of the direct umbrella of their parents are generally more aware of the shortcomings of their environment than the rest, which may have been appropriate. It's also part of the reason why kids in their late teens probably have the most conflicted relationship they will have with their parents; a decade later when the smoke as cleared most people get on much better with their parents.