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It’s like watching a clown show. Maybe he should watch more porn and grow up.

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[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

That headline is... incredibly inaccurate. They've pledged to each other to avoid porn, and have software that throws an alarm (visible to each other) if they view it.

"Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake" implies that they are seeking out porn and sharing it with each other, which is not what is happening here.

I think there are plenty of legitimate concerns here, but father and son sharing porn links is not one of them.

Also, I imagine young Mr. Johnson has at least 1 Android tablet or other burner device that is unknown to Dad.

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean when I read "monitoring each other's porn intake" I assumed it meant "monitoring how much porn each other watches". And considering who it was, I assumed that was for the sake of making sure that they didn't watch any porn. I did not at any point think that they were sharing porn links with each other, because that's generally not what monitoring someone's intake means.

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I assumed it meant they each keep tabs to make sure the other gets just enough porn each day but not too much.

Daaaaaaaaad you've exceeded your porn allowance for the day and it's not even elevensies yet! 😠

[-] QuiteQuickQum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now this is the quality sarcasm that has disappeared from Reddit! Stay witty, mon ami!

Edit: this is my high way of saying, "LOL." 🤣

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I, uh… I made the same assumption, but unfortunately it wasn’t sarcastic. I imagined it being like two bros that have an alcohol problem but don’t “believe” in rehab (whatever that means), so they make a deal to check each other’s recycle bins and call each other out when they’re not keeping it under 3 a day.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Intake implies there is some consumption to begin with

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not necessarily, it can also involve monitoring if there IS intake in the first place.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes good point. It still seems like an odd choice of word if that was the case though

[-] bemenaker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

“It sends a report to your accountability partner.

Depends on what is in that report. If it shows visited links. That would also make it pandering to a minor.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago

Right, because making your son your porn accountability buddy is an extremely normal and healthy thing to do.

How dare this article make it sound like such a healthy and normal thing is somehow extremely weird and creepy!?!

It's not like he had his wife holding him accountable for not looking at naked bodies online. That would be disgusting. No, like any upstanding citizen he wisely decided that he'd have it alert his son if temptation ever became too much and he looked at porn.

If only he had a parenting guide so that we could all learn to run a household in ways that will definitely not result in all the kids needing therapy down the road.

[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Right, because making your son your porn accountability buddy is an extremely normal and healthy thing to do.

It absolutely is NOT, and that was one of the several problematic aspects of this that is not resolved by addressing the confusing language.

[-] kzhe@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure the above post is sarcasm?

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

No, I think it's completely and undoubtedly serious.

[-] Clam_Cathedral@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago

No, what monitoring in this context means is to be made aware of each other's porn INTAKE, or how much is being consumed and when, which the software is said to do. Nothing is suggesting they seek porn out to share content with each other, just that they are alerted when the other accesses porn.

I'd bet youre right about the alternative devices though.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be shocked to find there's something to the jokes.

Sexually repressed conservatives usually have freaking weird kinks.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah seriously just be into pain like the rest of us

Nah, I didn't read the headline thinking that they were sharing links with each other. It read to me like he and his son are holding each other accountable for how often they pleasure themselves with porn, and that's incredibly fucking weird and inappropriate. While I think it's generally a positive thing to be open and honest with your children, there is definitely a line. And this totally crosses that.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was lucky enough to be raised by a sex positive mom. As a young child I called body parts by their names because they’re just body parts. Any questions I asked my mom got a truthful answer to the best of her knowledge and as appropriate as possible to my age. There was an understanding that if I was old enough to ask I was old enough to know. That was incredible for me. I have a healthy sex life in part because of this. I also don’t know anything about my mom’s sex life except for the time I found her copy of 50 shades, and the fact that my parents couldn’t stand each other for over a decade.

This is so much weirder and honestly depending on the son’s age it sounds like it could be adultification. A child shouldn’t be responsible for holding a parent accountable in general, but for this it’s just yikes

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I feel like the reason they’d have to make a pledge like this in the first place is because one or both of them already got caught watching porn.

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The son is 17. If he's not beating his meat regularly, something is wrong with him.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Or asexual. But that seems unlikely in this scenario.

[-] drphungky@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Also, everyone is reading this as some kind of creepy weird sharing kinks thing. Guaranteed this is just overbearing parenting 101. Anyone raised in or around extreme Christian groups reads this for what it is: child monitoring software and forcing your values on your kid.

I am sure your 17 year old signed up, wholly voluntarily, to not look at porn. I'm sure this wasn't pitched as, "I'll even do it too, and set it up so you get alerts for me!" Right as they took away a near adult's ability to explore his sexuality.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

I think there are plenty of legitimate concerns here

Absolutely, Covenant Eyes is malware. Even worse, courts sometimes mandate it, eg in child custody cases. It's commercialised spying from a business that has proven itselt not trustworthy.

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

100% this. it's another arm of big religion. we have to defeat them

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe you can explain how the headline isn't 100000000% accurate instead of confirming it's completely accurate

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a security issue now that he’s speaker

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I'd put money down that the kid set it up and has certain sites unlisted.

[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure they BOTH have a burning devices.

[-] vamp07@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I did not interpret the headline that way.

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ah ok, that's marginally less weird.

[-] knobbysideup@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Nougat@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

You could have just said "Mr. Johnson," and "the other."

[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mr. Johnson and Little Johnson?

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