I fundamentally agree with you, but these websites still frustrate me. Not because they've got pornography or because some cater to the weirdest fetishes ever. They frustrate me because they intentionally target teenage boys (for the most part) as an audience and use covert techniques to reel them (and their debit cards) in.
If I were going to regulate anything about these sites, it would be how they market themselves. Let them be available, but excluded from the search term "teen", for example. As long as their content is legal I don't care what they do. But I do care when they install malware on my teenage son's computer and infect our network, and I care when they optimize their site for discovery by that teenage son, and I really care when they disguise their advertising on kid-friendly sites so that there's no clue there's a problem until the click through to the REAL ad. Those are the issues that should be addressed, not legal content made available to adults.
There are criminals who want to take control of computers (actually two kinds, one is the people we call criminals and the others are governments). They merely use porn at the bait. If people were anxious to look at religious site they would use that. There activity is unrelated to porn per se.
Second, I may be getting old but if I remember my teens it didn't take much encouragement to get males that age interested in porn. The reality is that most I suspect, go looking for it. And I would say that it near unto 90% of teen males with private access to the net who have done so. Though I suspect a smaller percentage would admit it.
I'm not sure many sites actually go out of their way to try and get kids to the sites unless we are talking about criminals who are merely using the curiousity about sex to get ahold of people's computers. Real pornographers, those who are trying to make money at it, aren't interested in teens since teens aren't normally in the position to to spend money with them unless they have access to their own credit card. And if they do then the parents ought to be paying attention to that. I think 90% of the problems in this area can be handled by vigilant parents who are honest with their kids about sex, answer their questions, and simply remember they were once teens as well.
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