• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Anyone who thinks putting barriers up will keep horny kids from finding porn doesn’t remember what it was like to be a horny kid.

    Do you know what we had to do to see a single boob in the 80s? And we still did it, even if it wore out the movie on pause or involved sneaking into a creepy forest for a porn stash or watching scrambled channels for hours.

    The only thing that taught me more about computers than pirating games was figuring out how to hide my porn.

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      29 days ago

      Lmao trying to hide porn in the late 90’s early 2000’s is what taught me the concept of steganography. There was a windows app you could hide a file vault in an image using steganography, I tried it but eventually the file got corrupted and my stash was ruined, lol.

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        28 days ago

        Dude, same experience but with TrueCrypt hidden volumes - created a decoy partition with boring stuff and the real one hidden inside it, felt like a hacker genuis until I accidentally formated the whole thing.

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      29 days ago

      Do you know what we had to do to see a single boob in the 80s? And we still did it, even if it wore out the movie on pause or involved sneaking into a creepy forest for a porn stash or watching scrambled channels for hours.

      Damn! I grew up sheltered. Scrambled channels? I don’t think I even knew that was an option. Once a friend of my brother brought a VHS porno and we all watched it but tbh it did not make an impression. I think we were just months away from the appropriate hormones kicking in. OTOH I remember masturbating to a picture of a sweet girl showing cleavage.

      BTW if that’s when you grew up you’re not a boomer.

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      13 days ago

      This is probably a hot take but I think parents should give there kids access to porn. Giving them access to ethical porn that depicts things in a realistic way would go a long way in sex education. Sex related topics are taboo so sometimes self study is the best way.

      I also think kids mature a lot faster than parents expect which leads to early porn addictions since they have desires but don’t know what to do with them.