Recently a co-worker discovered that one of her teenage sons had been perusing pornography on the internet, which she quickly reacted to by taking away his computer. I agree with her decision of course, and I would have done the same thing. In this day and age, ten minutes alone with a computer can unlock a world of in-appropriate web sites. It is no different really than when many of us were young and would steal our father's "dirty magazines" or videos while parents were away. It is a normal thing for a teenager to be curious about their sexuality. We all did it, some even took it further than mags/videos, some experienced the "real thing" with peers. As I said it is a NORMAL part of growing up and discovering oneself. I only mention this co-worker because it was homosexual pornography that her son had been searching for on the internet. You might have thought the child had been looking up sites on beastiality or necrophelia, somehow to her homosexual pornography could be likened to those two truly disturbing "interests" and it saddened me. The fact is the teenager is not abnormal, there is nothing out of the ordinary about his actions, given that he was unsupervised at that time and free to explore what his hormones were beckoning him to. He should be reprimanded yes, and punished accordingly by taking away internet privledges, but certainly not made to feel like he is a deviant, and that is how she handled it. He hadn't come to her evidently and talked about his feelings, so essentially it was a double shock to her system and she went with her gut reaction, which in my opinion was completely wrong.