The same can be said of any thing humans do. Being a nanny can be an exploitative relationship.

If your problem is that sex is a form of social interaction and can thus be used to hurt people then your fundamental problem is one of respect and compassion, not watching John tie up Jill and spank her.

The lesson we should teach our children is "don't do ANYTHING to another person without thinking about how it impacts them". Don't call them names. Don't take their stuff. Don't hit them. Don't rape them. Don't disrespect them. That lesson has nothing to do with sex, but with respecting other people.

And I can assure you that at no point in my life did I ever believe that Grand Theft Auto was ever representative of reality. If you or your kids have difficulty with separating reality and fantasy, then that is your problem, not porn. If you don't like watching porn, don't watch it. Stop trying to impose rules on the rest of us because you have problems.

Not talking about it and thus building this impenetrable wall around the subject just because it's 'complicated' does no one any favors.

Actually... it is. You are saying that by watching porn people are taught that 'porn-sex is normal-sex' implying that you believe that porn sex is deviant behavior.

So what is this "normal" sex and why do you give a crap what two consenting adults do in their bedroom? Seriously? THAT is what is wrong with our culture. Maybe, instead of saying 'porn is bad cause it teaches bad sex!' you should decide what 'good sex' is and then we can teach that to our children...

If the problem is a lack of a 'good' sexual role model, then perhaps you should provide one? Oh wait... that would be creepy.

Are you then going to start regulating other fantasies people have? Porn, like video games and role play gaming, is about fantasy. People, including very small children, generally understand the difference between reality and fantasy.

And yes, a 5 second conversation really can root that difference firmly in a kids mind. If I can tell my kids that Grand Theft Auto doesn't actually represent how real people are supposed to behave and expect them to believe me, then I can also tell them that porn doesn't represent real, long term relationships.

Perhaps that is your problem? You can confusing sex with stable, loving relationships. Sex is a physical act we do for fun and to make babies. Love is about letting someone sleep in late on a Saturday morning and making them pancakes. Love is about giving up opportunities and careers to stay with your partner. Love is about being able to forgive mistakes and giving another person a hug after a bad day. It's turning a term paper in late because that other person was sick and needed you.

Love and long term, stable relationship aren't about sex and there are plenty of role models for children to learn about love and commitment.

The argument is that if kids are taught about sex and told that some people like to shove pineapples up their butts, they will become sexual deviants and suddenly all the kids will be shoving pineapples up their buts or some such nonsense.

Those of us that are sane, reject that logic as idiotic. Kids should be taught that no one gives a crap what you shove up your butt and who you do it with unless you end up in the E.R. We should teach our kids about consent and respect, not 'sex is taboo' and you are a bad person if you like it.

Sex is not bad. How is it that we can fantasize about killing people in the most violent and gruesome ways, but a fantasy about hot girls and suddenly you are a deviant? WTF is wrong with you?

My 3 year old daughter watches Sesame Street and Super Why all the time. She does not believe that she can solve problems by just waving a magic pen and changing the story. Nor does she only eat cookies or think she can fly or talk only in the 3rd person.

She is 3 and she understands the difference between fantasy and reality. I asked her once if she was a dinosaur cause she was running around acting like one and she stopped, look at me, and with her hands on her hips pronounced, "No, Mommy. I'm pretending" with this tone that said "how can you be so dumb as to actually think I'm a dinosaur?"

Same thing that happens currently....

You either go oh fuck, swerve, and crash or calmly wait for your "wipers" to catch up.

Oddly this is the same thing that happens when an asshat comes over the top of the hill with their high beams on...

They come out with a wearable vital signs monitor and their first thought is... Let's stop women from getting fat by yelling at them when they are stressed!

Not... we can market it to seniors and life alert companies so when Grandma has a heart attack we can automatically dispatch the paramedics without her needing to push a button.

Not... we can put it in a sports bra so people working out get their shiny metrics.

No. It's well detect you are stressed and yell at you to step away from the fridge. WTF? If I'm having a shitty day why do I want clippy constantly nagging me about how fat I am?

Nice technology. Nice intentions. Still a stupid idea.

Someone has never been married...

I don't lock my front door.

Log on, get your key texted to you, then walk outside to get the message :P. Not really any different than when google asks you to reauthenticate and your phone is downstairs or in the car or not charged.

That's cause people suck. If the clerks in wall mart could check me out at a speed greater than 1 item per hour, we wouldn't need robots.

Moral of the story: Don't suck and you won't be replaced.

Cause it's harder to steal the package after the post man leaves it on my front porch all day than it is to steal it if a robot leaves it on the porch?

What if I'm eating my lunch and only typing with one hand?

How about when you VNC into a remote machine and it takes 5 seconds for the characters to show up on the terminal?

Why don't they do what other industries do and just sell the car to the dealer who is the responsible for reselling it to a customer? If the dealers paid for the inventory, they wouldn't buy inventory they couldn't move and the manufacture wouldn't give a shit if the dealer sold the car or it sat on their lot for ten years.

I thought if a Prius caught fire it was cause the owner lit the off-market floor mats on fire because all problems with a Prius are related to operator error.