This is what I was saying above, this whole filter strikes me as people saying, “When I was a kid we had to work for our porn.” I don’t even know the provenance of the earliest porn I got access to when I was a teenager (presumably a kid stole it from their dad or a convenience store somewhere up the chain, but I didn’t know that kid).
Was it crucial to my development that my access to porn was limited so that I cherished the porn I could get? I really don’t think that’s the case. From what I’ve read (in places I can’t remember or cite, but I swear it happened) kids don’t access nearly as much porn online as people think they do.
If you are really concerned, put a family computer in the living room, not a computer in your kid’s bedroom. By making them wait until you are out or until you’ve gone to bed and by making them be careful about their browser histories, you’ll simulate the experience you had as a child.
