Now, Hustler, that's a magazine you def. shouldn't give to a kid, that age.
think back to when you were 14 years old, a picture of a naked elbow at the correct angle partially resembling a boob, could prolly have triggered you.
I think you should buy him one. He'll be the king amongst his friends with it probably. I'm sure he knows how to find p0rn on the internet but that has much less "cool" factor I'm afraid than the cult magazine Playboy.
And this I say as a mother ;-)
I agree Smitty and would definitely not buy Cosmo for my 14-year old daughter. I think such magazines do an incredible diservice to our teenage girls! It's absolutely vulgar! How did we get to the point where all media and most magazines promote the single life, bash the whole family unit and teaches young girls that the more free sex they have with all kinds of people and genders is the best (and coolest!) way to live. Makes me sick! We're not far from the Brave New World Orwell described.
I really think that the way children are learning about love and sex through films and movies is very dangerous. Not to mention p-o-r-n. Your first sexual experience should not be based on what you see in these films. These young boys grow up expecting girls too look and act like p-o-r-n stars. That is not the real world and everyone comes out disappointed. But hey, I guess it works for population control. Less people getting married and having children - that's what it's all about for the guys up there pulling the strings. (I'm sure some of you will know what I mean) It's not by mistake that we got to this point in the last 20 years or so.
Give him a Playboy. It is beautyful pictures, you may see pubic hair, but you don't see their lips (at least the german version).
If he asks for Praline instead, you should decline.
Whats the problem anyway? He will go to one of the Swimming Areas at the Limmat in the summer, when he wants to see female skin.
Let him have a Beer too - preferably a Stout - he will not like it, and will not ask again for a loong time.
I had my first cigarette when i was 5-6 years old, and after coughing a bit I decided to give up smoking a few minutes later.
Doc
I partially agree... hei... my Dad and his buddies took me as a - I must have been 10 or 11 - into this sleazy stripjoint, most fun I had ever had in my entire life (up until that point in time, that is)... Loads of fun and I was the coolest kid in school for a few days.
ok, just a couple of points to clarify... I've never considered Playboy pRon so I'm not going lock things up everytime someone (or their children) come over. and the father`?.. he's not really in the picture at all on this ( bad choice of words perhaps ) and I've known this kid since he was 4 so I guess I am the "trusted male adult figure" (whatevah that means. ) ok.. now to finish reading the posts.
Depends how you tackle it [twinkle in the eye...]. If you make it as excruciatingly embarrassing as possible, it will put them off for life because every time they are tempted to look at that top shelf they will hear echos of the following conversation in their head...
DAD: Well, son, I remember when me and your mother used to like to look at that sort of stuff when we were younger. The June 1994 copy of Big & Bouncy certainly helped us spice things up a bit! We can go along to a Kiosk on Saturday morning and have a look, if you like.
SON [shuddering]: Thanks, I think I'll pass on that...
It may not be just the wrath of his mother you should consider. By you providing a minor with pornography, you may be on shaky legal grounds. If you were to give my kids pornography, I would instantly ban you from coming with 50 meters of the boy, and have you investigated for sexual assault on children. You wouldn't happen to be a member of the clergy, would you?
My two cents.
Whilst dealing with a minor and anything sexual, unless your the parent I would suggest keeping well clear. Best intentions, or a bit of fun can easily be mis-read, and if I had found someone giving access to p0rn to my kids underage the doodoo would really hit the fan.
With my avatar I feel I must point out that it was the acid-head Huxley who wrote that. And as for the analogy I'm not sure you're right. We've not got to the point where we're breeding serfs in test tubes yet. We merely import them as illegals from poor countries.
Back to topic: from my dim and distant experience of being a teenager, he was just geeing you up. If he really wanted a copy he'd get one easily enough - I know I did.
I would not buy it for him in the same way that I would not buy alcohol or cigarettes for a minor. I would also point out to him that by virtue of him asking you to do such a thing, he is placing you in a compromising situation.
You should also tell him, that he could end up going blind
It sounds like he is just testing you as well to see just what he can get away with.
You can take paper copies to the bathroom, unlike the PC.
I'd give him a copy of Top Gear, less chance of him going blind , and Clarkson would show him a much simpler world
So just because you don't see what the women had for breakfast, then Playboy is not pornography. Or let me guess, you just buy it for the "articles", right?
You're absolutely right. I also had 1984 in my mind. I stand corrected.
Playboy, as far as I can remember from my classmates giggling over boobies and lacy bits of nothing, was pretty tame - none of your hardc0re stuff.
It was certainly nothing more than we were exposed to on the beach in the south of France on our holidays - maybe less lipstick and suggestive pouts but the beach was wall to wall topless ladies.
I think nudity on mainland Europe has got less of a stigma to it. My husband and I watched a TV news item in Vancouver a couple of years ago about how residents were being urged not to hang their washing "particularly their underwear" out as it had been reported as causing offence.
Laundry pr0n...
Some 10 years before acid.
Good point Gooner!
PapaGoose, Lynn, ... thanks for the advice.
OM.................... I think you're right about that. Poor boy wouldn't want to hang out with pop anymore.