When did you first see porn?

Funny that simple porn movies were banned in the 80s.

And now parents think it's cool their kids can watch the most depraved stuff 24x7x365 on demand. Upload and stream live stuff. In 4K HD. On their phones ...

And put all the other kids under the same pressure, temptation.

Sure it'll have no effect ...

It'll be grand.

What a **** failure of a society we are.

2006 gotta love channel 999

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I said what I said, 'cause there will be someone on to say it has no effect and some study was done somewhere to prove it.

Or that it did no harm to them ... in the 80s, 90s, ..

Yada yada yada

That must be in the Irish Press archives!

In my day (early 90s) illicit pornography was always found in skips.

Thinking about it, it was obviously men looking to get rid of a bit of a stash from the continent or wives who had found it, but it always seemed to end up fired into skips on building sites. Which of course were always being played in and rummaged through by resourceful young fellows.

I distinctly remember being in 1st year of secondary school and a couple of pages of a glossy hardcore doing the rounds in class and seeing the full glory of a hirsute olive skinned lady, I think from Italy if my memory of the accompanying text is correct. For a few years this was the sort of pickings we had to be happy with.

In about 1995,I began securing copies of 3.5 inch floppy disks (no pun intended) loaded with pics and gifs of a jazzy variety. Yes kids, we had to hand each other our computer porn and make copies that we had to stash very carefully.

Then in 1996, Playboy was legalised in Ireland (the Jenny McCarthy Christmas special was a memorable moment for your truly) and in 1998 or so, fellas began getting primitive modems in their homes and we salivated over short clips that took an absolute age to download over 9600 baud and IBM 386 processors.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Has anyone ever come up with a viable theory as to why so much porn used to be found in bushes/hedges back in the day? I mean I can imagine some of it was lads hiding it from the missus but then how do you "use it" and what about the rest? You hardly stand by a bush pulling the innocence out of yourself and then stroll in for dinner.

Depends what is classed as porn, I was around 13 and some of the older lads brought back a magazine and playing cards from France.

Tame by todays standards just hairy bush.

James Joyce over here

I dunno. There was always pictures of topless ladies to be found in the tabloid newspapers and I can't remember what age I would have been when I first saw those - a very young child anyway.

Actual porn? I suppose whenever the internet took off, when I would have been approaching the teenage years It was one of the first things you went looking for whenever you had the chance. Pictures from freeones.com on a 56k dial up: simpler times. The odd time someone might bring in a copy of a magazine like Playboy into school and it'd be treated like a holy text.

I can't remember the first time I saw actual video or footage - well into the teens anyway once broadband started to become widely available

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First saw a hard-core porn video in secondary school circa 89 or 90. Literally in secondary school that is, our class had a half hour study time once a week where we left in the lecture room unsupervised. This had a vcr and telly. One day a lad brought in a video and the whole class watched a few minutes of it.