Adults Now Using Porn Blockers On Their Own Computer To Protect Them From Themselves
(Source) Dave Matthews, founder of PageClean, an Internet-filtering program for mobile devices, knew there was a market for blocking children from seeing porn. But after getting into the business, he began to see an unexpected phenomenon. “I started getting customers asking me to lock their phones and not send them the password,” he tells me. These fully grown adults were asking his company to protect them from themselves.
PageClean isn’t alone. Famed porn-blocker Net Nanny polled its customers last year to find the median age of the person the software is used to “protect.” Thirteen, you might guess? Nuh-uh. Try 24. “There are many adults who wish to protect themselves from pornography,” says Russ Warner, president and CEO of Net Nanny. “And we have requests almost weekly from adults who want our customer service reps to manage their password” — in other words, to keep their password from them so they can’t circumvent the software. “We also know that many of our customers are women who wish to filter out porn for their husbands and boyfriends,” he tells me. Welcome to the new age of porn-blockers. It’s not just for kids anymore. Gives a whole new meaning to “parental control software,” doesn’t it?Matthews sees it as the fault of technology more so than pornography. “Having an iPhone makes it really hard to quit porn,” says Matthews. “Imagine trying to quit smoking if you were carrying a pack of cigarettes in your pocket all the time.” He adds, “Essentially, people are looking for help to remove that temptation, because you can’t leave your phone at home.”
A post on the blog for Web filter Optenet reads, “We discovered that many adults were buying parental controls to install on their own computers. But then those adults realized that if they installed the web filter software themselves, they would know the password and every time they felt tempted, they could simply use the password to turn the filter off.” So they developed a way for users to generate a random and easily forgettable password and then use a company staff member as an “accountability partner.”
Couple of things here. 1, you have to be a tremendous pussy to want to put a porn blocker on your own computer. Not a pussy in the sense that if you can’t stop watching porn you’re a pussy, because lets face it, I can’t stop watching porn, and neither can basically every man in the world. No, you’re a pussy for thinking that watching obscene amounts of porn is actually a problem. Who the fuck cares if you peep some youporn on your Iphone during your lunch break. That’s not a problem, that’s called being a human being. That’s called chillaxing. Everyone should do it.
2, and probably the biggest issue I have with this porn blocker is the “accountability partner”. What the fuck is that about? Like a porn buddy? I mean you can’t have your wife or girlfriend be your accountability partner, because then you’re just pussy whipped beyond belief. So if I understand this system, I’m basically asking one of my friends to hold the keys to my porn kingdom and don’t let me open it unless I give him the safe word and if he feels like being a dick he could just keep my phone/computer blocked forever. Yeah, umm, thanks but no thanks. How about I just watch porn all the time and never feel bad about it because having a conscience is wildly overrated, that sounds like a far better plan
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We also know that many of our customers are women who wish to filter out porn for their husbands and boyfriends
If your wife or girlfriend tries to pull this shit just kill yourself, honestly cant imagine anything worse.