At what age did you first view pornography?

[Dinner]

Porn is free on the internet. Who the hell pays for porn?

[Ecthy]

I love normal distribution in poll results

[Kassiopeia]

I noticed the same. It's kind of creepy.

[Ecthy]

It isn't. This kind of question usually results in normal distribution. It's similar to "at what age did you first havev sex" (though here the result is usually shifted downward compared to reality) or "how long is your schlong" (shifted upward) or "how many women have you slept with" (shifted upward).

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Ecthy
"how long is your schlong" (shifted upward)

That would make a difference.

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by Dis
I won't even mention how disturbing I find golden showers.

What do you find so disturbing about watersports?

[Q Classic]

Seeker, I love the fact that the OTBOT has listed your post as, "You're a bad boy, Seeker." I mean, outside of the regular associations, if you imagine OTBETTY to be female, then it's a line she might say right before, "Turn your head and cough," or...

...

...as far as pr0n goes... My only experience with it has been entirely digital. I ran across my father's stash roughly around 3rd grade, back when we had MS-DOS and Windows 3.1; after learning the basic comands of cd and dir, I went poking around the cavernous 83MB hard drive, eventually finding a directory labelled DAD_ONLY.

Of course, being an inquisitive young child who'd already fallen in love with computers, I went in, only to find the whole directory filled with files that weren't programs. I tried everything to open the .jpg or .gif files, until I finally found the viewer program, a tiny little .exe file at the bottom of the directory.

I opened it, and found a simple interface that listed all the pictures. I pushed down a few times on the arrow keys, and then pressed enter. HELLO! A woman showering. And then women sprawled out on some towels, bathing suits barely covering anything at all. Every so often, a phone number.

Oh, the days of the BBSes.

I never called the BBS; wasn't that interested. At the time, I thought it was weird to have such pictures on a computer. Eventually, I would erase the folder a mere four months later when I was learning how to use File Manager.

I wouldn't see pr0n again for another five years or so, until early 1998 when I finally used our new internet connection for that purpose. I was in 8th grade at the time, so I'd started to be somewhat curious about the whole boy-girl thing; by this point, I'd fallen under the sway of a member of the opposite sex, who'd cast her wiles on me, leaving me slack-jawed and helpless whenever she talked to me.

Naturally, as all males do, once I found out the wealth of knowledge available on the internet, I kept searching for it. At first, it was inane things: advice on how to talk to girls and the like. Then there were some less... aboveboard sites with links... and there you have it.

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Regarding golden showers and the like; personally, there are a great number of fetishes that wig me out, including the rather kindly-termed "watersports".

Part of it is degredation; I don't understand how anybody could find their own pleasure out of being debased. It doesn't work the other way, though--I can see why people get off on being the debaser in some aspects (i.e., BDSM), but that's because one is in the position of power. The other side just doesn't make sense to me. I don't enjoy a good many things some of the debasers seem to, such as the golden shower, or the fecal fascination, or any of that; it's just not favorable to my palate, and thus... I avoid it.

I'd definitely think anyone who got off on that sort of thing is weird, too, since I'm not quite sex-positive; on the other hand, I'd probably put it out of my mind, because we all have dirty little sexual kinks. For instance, I'm a big fan of being drunkenly blindfolded with a silken scarf while a train of midgets does the conga line across the Golden Gate Bridge watching penguins and prawns going at it on an ice floe as I whack off a pinata with an aluminum baseball bat. It's a good thing none of you have met me, because I wouldn't be able to look any of you in the face after revealing that dirty little secret...

[MRT144]

i was 5 when i ordered playboy and watched it. and the rest is history.

[Terra Nullius]

Yep, I don't know if Dis feels the same way, but that's kind of what I suspected. And I think it's mistaken. I don't feel there is necessarily a connection between urophilia and degradation. Some people just like sharing their pee.

To some people it's actually somehing of a return to childhood innocence - liberation from self-control as well as societal control. Or it can be purely a matter of physical sensation, without any rationalising. Some people are fascinated by fire, or surfing, or whatever, others simply get off on a warm, sweet piddle.

Having said that, it can also be a device of submission and degradation. But I wouldn't label every urophilic as being a domineering, sociopathic menace. I think it's important to distinguish between that which is unusual and that which is degrading.

That said, I am deeply suspicious of any form of humiliation or erotic debasement. I don't know if there is a clear line of demarcation between role-play and real personal degradation, but yeah, debasing another person for one's physical gratification is just "wrong."

[OzzyKP]

7 or 8 I think.

My dad had an old box of "Oui" in the basement. Softcore Playboy stuff all from like the '70s. Ah, good times.

[Bill3000]

Originally posted by Ecthy
I love normal distribution in poll results

One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test gives a p-value of .752, so yeah, it's normally distributed.

[Jaguar]

NERDS!

/me points and runs away

[KrazyHorse]

"Tests" of Gaussianity are stupid and unreliable.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
7 or 8 I think.

My dad had an old box of "Oui" in the basement. Softcore Playboy stuff all from like the '70s. Ah, good times.

As a dad myself now I make sure my house is clear of the stuff and the computer is clean. Its amazing how much being a dad yourself changes a person.

[Seeker]

"As A Dad Myself Now I Make Sure My House Is Clear Of The Stuff And The Computer Is Clean"

...where there's a will, there's a way...