I think our opinion matters to Doc, Lynn; we do make up these forums and these forums are here to help and entertain us, not just because DocJohn enjoys helping and entertaining others and becoming rich (ha, ha) and famous from the Net. I think it is more of a "majority rules" sort of thing, unless Doc sees it as being harmful to the majority of users.

I have more problems with 13 year olds having access to computers and being on a predominantly adult set of forums discussing sexual matters without their parents or guardians having knowledge or taking an interest in what they are doing. I don't see it as any different from other parts of life. I do not think 13 year olds are harmed by reading about sex anymore than I think explaining about sex to pre-teens and getting them ready for puberty is a bad idea.

I suspect that any children, or even most teens on here are not going to necessarily understand the full sexual experience, whether they have had "sex" before or not. It's a growth thing like the rest of human experience and babies may hear and understand older people talking, may watch older people walking but they don't "understand" talking and walking yet, they have not experienced the whole of it. But whether we have experienced something or not, we are going to think, reason, feel about it from where we are; we know children get the "wrong" idea about things because they don't have the knowledge and experience yet with that situation and I know that I have carried wrong ideas into adulthood because my early ideas from earlier exposure to something have been wrong and I have not necessarily had a correcting/balancing experience to put it in a better perspective for me. There is no way that my parents, as good as they were as parents, could foresee and "protect" me from myself and my own thoughts and ideas that I was too young to articulate so they would even know I had a problem. The bad person tells us not to tell or more bad things will happen and we believe them and don't tell and get to where more bad things cannot happen but, it's late and more bad things did happen, just because we did not tell and carried that all the way forward with us into our adult lives. . . "All sun makes a desert" says an Arabian proverb and trying to protect other people, especially from themselves, just can't work; not for parents, not for one's self.