‘Porn before blood,’ parents say |
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BY Ricardo Bilton August 13th, 2008 |
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A poll conducted by prominent innocence-saver WhatTheyPlay suggests that parents would be more concerned with their children playing Grand Theft Auto than they would if their kids stumbled on a stash of Playboy’s.
The poll asked parents to vote on the most troubling act their children could partake in while visiting a friend’s house. Smoking a joint came out in first, with just about half of the votes tallied, followed by playing Grand Theft Auto, watching naked ladies, and imbibing spirits, in that order.
The gist of the concern, according to Cheryl K. Olson, is that videogames are full of what she calls “unknowable dangers.” Parents, it would seem, are sincerely petrified of any new iterations of the Hot Coffee debacle. Numbers from an earlier poll confirmed that sentiment, as voters suggested that, in the context of videogames, parents would be more offended at seeing sexual intercourse between a man and woman (and kissing between a man and man) than they would be at seeing someone get their crown lobbed off.
I just have one question: Just when is it okay for a kid to crack open the latest Playboy and see what folks like Ms. Karadashian have to offer?
August 13th, 2008
at 12:37 am
All serious research points towards one conclusion: It’s not so much what you DO as a parent, as who you ARE that matters to your child’s future situation. I wouldn’t want my kid to play GTA or watch Playboy magazines when they’re very young, but it’s not like it’s the end of the world if they did. I looked at porn at my friend’s house when I was 9 years old and I turned out fine… almost.
August 13th, 2008
at 3:34 am
This also means that parents will go completely nuts when Saints Row 2 is released, I mean they have both porn and blood! Let’s party!
August 13th, 2008
at 11:19 am
A story on porn and you didn’t use the word breasticles once! For shame.
August 13th, 2008
at 12:05 pm
I think the ‘concerns’ are in a fair order on the parents behalf. Whatever people think of violence in game, whether you agree or not, violence toward other people in real life shouldn’t be tolerated especially when it relates to children. Nudity is far less ‘harmful’ in the sense that, in most cases, it isn’t harming those around you. My guess is, that parents would be concerned their child would re-enact the violence they see toward others. Whether that would happen is another matter…but I agree with the above comment - it isn’t the end of the world and that’s what parenting is about…sorting out issues along the way.