I think it matters more on education than age.
I don't know about the other countries here, but in mine you learn about sex education at grade 7 (age 12) but recently some schools, are now starting to teach it at grade 1...
In this education system, it really starts at grade 5/6 but the information is really minimal.
From grade 8 it's "condoms, ...... reply
I don't think age restrictions are particularly useful, but they are there for a reason. When talking about mature topics, it is important to take into account the maturity of the individual, which is hard to assess. Children may also hear things from their classmates if not from their parents, older siblings, etc.
However...
When I see 8 yr-olds c...... 2 reply
I honestly don't remember my first yaoi (it obviously wasn't very memorable) but my first slash fiction was when I was 11 or 12. I was looking up fanfiction for my favorite author at the time. I didn't know what slash was yet and thought I was reading a slasher. There were 3 stories all featuring the same couple all very gory. Then I stumbled upon ...... 1 reply
http://www.cracked.com/blog/how-sexual-peer-pressure-can-ruin-sex-forever/
This question reminder me of this article I read a couple of days ago. It's a good read. Check it out if you have a chance! 1 reply
I really think that this varies from person to person. I remember reading my first explicit manga at around age 9 or 10. It was more of a shoujo than a hentai but there was still some pretty steamy stuff. By that age, I already had a general idea of what sex was because I found my older cousin's stash of porn (but that's a totally different story h...... reply
Personally I think we should definitely be a little more open about sexuality. We should definitely talk to kids around the time they reach age 12 and are starting to enter puberty about sexuality, safe sex, consent, all that stuff. We should also let kids know around that age what pornography is, and how it's not realistic and you shouldn't see th...... reply
90% of the yaoi mangas depict unhealthy relationships and wrong practices. also its so wrong for someone to learn about lgbt+ people from these mangas because 99% of the time theyre extremely transphobic,biphobic and believe it or not homophobic. it makes people fetishize and objectify gay people soo much. i know it because 3 of my close friends do...... 3 reply
I am a mother to 3 (ages 6,8,11). I am obsessed with yaoi and my kids know i enjoy reading manga where boys kiss boys. But as a mother, i don't think i would allow my oldest to view such material. Although i don't think i will hold him off on these until 18, but 11 is too young. I don't understand kids now who are like 12 watching hentai, yaoi and ...... 2 reply
My parents never taught me about anything sexual on their own account. They were forced to give me a one sentence definition of the basic topic because of Glee (that's also how I found out about the LGBT community). After that, they left me to figure things out for myself. I learned a lot of stuff through books and the Internet.
I realize that man...... 1 reply
Well, there are surprisingly a lot of people that started reading yaoi and other adult stuff when they were around 12 years old. So I think it's fine for those under 18 to read sexuall materials. As long as you know right from wrong and real from unreal, and keep it separate from your real life. 2 reply
I began reading very explicit romance novels when I was eleven years old. So I'm the last person who should judge!
However, when kids and teenagers see porn - and I'm not just talking about manga, comics, and books - they're seeing an idealized and often violent version of sex.
In many yaoi books, rape is okay as long as the two main c...... 1 reply
Thanks for all the responses! I have read through and here are my general replies to some of the main counterpoints i heard (in case you want to hear them):
- if you think that some kids can't handle something at a young age, or that when you're below 18 you should keep you're innocence or 'only learn the right things' then i would object. people e...... 2 reply
I agree that it should be okay to be more open about these kinds of stuff. It's like, why make porn a secret when a lot of people know about it? It's probably a lot better to make the kids more aware about what shit they're watching.
I don't think it's really unavoidable, getting the kids to watch/read porn. During the hormonal period, you get cu...... 1 reply
I have thought about it. In my opinion, I think that's it's alright for pornographic content to be screened. Because it's all up to the individual. If he/she's curious about sex, then those age restrictions are easy enough to get through. But as there might be some who do not want to know about it too early since they mind rules (not that it's bad)...... 1 reply
I see no reason to show kids sexually explicit content such as yaoi and yuri. Those genres are pretty much porn and who in their right mind would show a child porn? Besides, yaoi and yuri mangas often display unhealthy relationships and notions about love. Like someone else in this thread already mentioned, yaoi and yuri are so unrealistic that the...... 1 reply
I find it a bit awkward that 11 and 12 year olds are on here reading porn. I didn't start reading yaoi until I was 18/19, which was a decade ago. The thought of kids not much older than my niece reading this stuff...real squicky.
In regards to whether it should be okay or not, I would lean toward "not". It's not that sex should be shameful or anyt...... 3 reply
'Things' are your daily life experiences by which you get to know the world around you. Tell others about the things you did, may it be cool, sad, crazy or funny. You can also find things that you might want to do and a friend to do it with!
