Once upon a time, a South Carolina mother called the Sheriff's Office because she discovered her 15-year-old son had been watching porn.
The craziest thing about this is it's not some made-up story. It actually happened. This past Tuesday, Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a residence following the before-mentioned mother calling 911.
As it read in the police report, "She stated that when she entered the residence, her 15-year-old son was in his bedroom. [Her] daughter turned on the TV and porn was on."
The 40-year-old mother then turned off the TV, took her 2-year-old daughter out of the room, and proceeded to call 911.
When Lieutenant Kevin Bobo showed up at the mother's home, he didn't make an arrest or issue a citation.
Afterward, he said, "I don't know of any South Carolina law that was broken."
Lieutenant Bobo also said that his department had never received such a call before, elaborating, "Is it unusual for a momma to call the police on teenagers looking at porn? Yeah, it is."
Upon reading this article, I have to wonder if this mother is one of those abstinence-only-education-in-denial-about-young-adults-having-sex kinds of people. Her son, like all kids his age, is going through a great number of changes on multiple levels, and one of those has to do with him maturing sexually, and with that, garnering a greater interest in sex. It often times cracks me up when parents appear shocked to learn their teenage kids are curious about and do the same things they did when they were their age.
Sure, as I've grown up, I've grown to have a distaste for porn. I think it objectifies both sexes, women in particular. Also, like romantic comedies, I think it provides unreal expectations for what transpires in the bedroom. However, when I was the boy's age, I too, like many other 15-year-olds, was curious to learn more about sex, the female body, and I can't tell you how many times some buddies of mine and I would try to watch adult films on "Skinamax" late at night during sleepovers. If my mother had ever caught me, while I'm sure she would have talked to me about matters, perhaps attempted to educate me more on why she doesn't care for pornography, and also offered to provide the ever-so-awkward "birds and the bees" lecture again, there's no way in hell she would have called the cops. I'm not saying it's right or wrong for 15-year-old boys to be watching pornography. However, teenage boys watching porn is a heck of a lot more "normal" than mothers calling the cops on their teenage sons watching porn.
In light of this story, I have to believe that this South Carolina mother will call the cops on her teenage son for the following reasons at some point:
- "My son just said the lord's name in vain! May God have mercy on his soul!"
- "My son was just, eh, touching himself! Arrest him, before he goes blind!"
- "My son just said, 'Yipee ki-yay, motherf**ker after watching one of those Bruce Willisburg movies!"
- "My son took a sip of O'Doul's and I think he's drunk!"
- "My son is laughing at me because he thinks I'm crazy!"
With regard to that last one, I think most people do...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/mom-finds-porn-on-tv_n_5659487.html
The craziest thing about this is it's not some made-up story. It actually happened. This past Tuesday, Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a residence following the before-mentioned mother calling 911.
As it read in the police report, "She stated that when she entered the residence, her 15-year-old son was in his bedroom. [Her] daughter turned on the TV and porn was on."
The 40-year-old mother then turned off the TV, took her 2-year-old daughter out of the room, and proceeded to call 911.
When Lieutenant Kevin Bobo showed up at the mother's home, he didn't make an arrest or issue a citation.
Afterward, he said, "I don't know of any South Carolina law that was broken."
Lieutenant Bobo also said that his department had never received such a call before, elaborating, "Is it unusual for a momma to call the police on teenagers looking at porn? Yeah, it is."
Upon reading this article, I have to wonder if this mother is one of those abstinence-only-education-in-denial-about-young-adults-having-sex kinds of people. Her son, like all kids his age, is going through a great number of changes on multiple levels, and one of those has to do with him maturing sexually, and with that, garnering a greater interest in sex. It often times cracks me up when parents appear shocked to learn their teenage kids are curious about and do the same things they did when they were their age.
Sure, as I've grown up, I've grown to have a distaste for porn. I think it objectifies both sexes, women in particular. Also, like romantic comedies, I think it provides unreal expectations for what transpires in the bedroom. However, when I was the boy's age, I too, like many other 15-year-olds, was curious to learn more about sex, the female body, and I can't tell you how many times some buddies of mine and I would try to watch adult films on "Skinamax" late at night during sleepovers. If my mother had ever caught me, while I'm sure she would have talked to me about matters, perhaps attempted to educate me more on why she doesn't care for pornography, and also offered to provide the ever-so-awkward "birds and the bees" lecture again, there's no way in hell she would have called the cops. I'm not saying it's right or wrong for 15-year-old boys to be watching pornography. However, teenage boys watching porn is a heck of a lot more "normal" than mothers calling the cops on their teenage sons watching porn.
In light of this story, I have to believe that this South Carolina mother will call the cops on her teenage son for the following reasons at some point:
- "My son just said the lord's name in vain! May God have mercy on his soul!"
- "My son was just, eh, touching himself! Arrest him, before he goes blind!"
- "My son just said, 'Yipee ki-yay, motherf**ker after watching one of those Bruce Willisburg movies!"
- "My son took a sip of O'Doul's and I think he's drunk!"
- "My son is laughing at me because he thinks I'm crazy!"
With regard to that last one, I think most people do...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/mom-finds-porn-on-tv_n_5659487.html
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