Quote Originally Posted by kellanna View Post
This is pretty much where my mind is at on all this. I see so much performative puritanism and virtue signaling with "think of the children!". If y'all really cared about children, you'd be advocating for education teaching responsible internet usage and tools for parents to help properly moderate their children's internet usage and keep them safe from bad actors that would exploit them in addition to proper sex education so that teens can have a healthy relationship with the act in their formative years. Newsflash, the internet is full of sexual things, and most of it just requires clicking on a button that says "Yeah, I'm definitely 18" to view it. I don't really see a crusade against that. Hell, even with Steam I can create an account that says I'm 18 with little to no verification, go to Walmart for a Steam gift card and buy any adult games I like. Where's the crusade against that?

All of this reeks of demonizing sex. The advertisements for ERP are not sexually assaulting your eyes. If you're disgusted by even the implication of natural and healthy bodily functions when it's not even directed specifically at you, that's your problem. The rest of us that have a healthy relationship with it should really not be punished for that.
Those "yes I'm 18" buttons are for liability. So if anything bad happens or you learn something bad you can't sue them.

But you really can't put all the responsibility on parents and others around the minors and say, "well it's your parents' fault that you don't know not to ERP with strangers like me!". It's the responsibility of everyone (yes, everyone, even ERPers) to make sure environments that may contain minors (like, say, an online game rated T) are safe for them. That means keeping ERP to yourself or within closed groups and not doing it with people you don't know. That's not "demonizing" sex, that's exercising caution. You do know that you don't have to have a black or white perspective on this, right? In this case both sides are right to a degree, but going to the full extreme that acting like people are being prudes for telling you to stop advertising ERP in public is absurd.