Globe and Mail: Study: 42% of kids online exposed to porn

So going through my usual morning business, coffee, breakfast and a little globe and mail online when I see an interesting headline about kids online being 'exposed' to porn. I thought to myself 'well that's an interesting choice of words', I confess that I have seen some internet porn in my time, but never thought of it as being 'exposed' to porn. When you're active in looking for something, does that count as being exposed?

When I was in my early teens, there was no such thing as this fancy 'internet porn'. Thinking back, I know that my friends and I would be 'exposing' ourselves to internet porn as much as we possibly could. The kids in this survey implied that the porn just 'popped up' on the screen, while they were innocently looking for other things. I spend quite a lot of time online nowadays, but I've never been exposed to a porn pop-up if I wasn't viewing questionable sites.

“It's so common now, who hasn't seen something like that?” said Emily Duhovny, 17.

The Marlboro, N.J., high school senior said X-rated images pop up all the time when she's online. Ms. Duhovny said the first time she saw one, it was shocking, but now, “more than anything, it's just annoying.”

Now, Emily, if these images are popping up 'all the time' when you're online, then perhaps you should take a long look at exactly where you are spending your time online.

It's not that I think this isn't a problem, there are lots of things on the internet that kids in their early teens should not see. But, pornography on the internet isn't all over the place, and kids who say that it just pops up are full of sh**. When completing a survey with teens, there should be compensation for the fact that teenagers lie about things that they know are innappropriate:

It wasn't me, my friends were smoking.
That's not my weed, it's Geoff's.
I'm staying at my girlfriend's place tonight.

And so on. Exposed to porn, yeah right.