Teenage boys...trying (and failing) to download porn...should I relent and buy in Maxim? Nuts??

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I'm a new Mumsnetter so no doubt will muck up the format but would much appreciate any advice on the following.
Ds1 and Ds2, especially Ds2, (thank God Ds3 is below age of porn-awareness/ computer competence) are in their early teens and mightily interested in "scantily clad ladies" as one of them endearingly put it when he tried to acces rude pix on the web.
We have firewalls, etc, in place and he didn't get far but this is just part of their increasingly determined campaign to look at porn.
(My phone has already been hi-jacked and bombarded with pix of topless cowgirls. I really can't recommend highly enough the experience of phoning the company that has charged you massive amounts to view cowgirls' udders, venting your self-righteous fury and then discovering your son is the culprit. Yee-ha!)
Anyway, we live in the middle of nowhere, they attend a school where Penthouse doesn't seem to be in circulation and their opportunities to express their dawning - yeah, yeah, I know I'm kidding myself - interest in sex are limited.
Should I just give in and leave copies of more lurid lads'mags lying around the house. It's all very well providing them with matey "how to" Q & A books for boys, which I have, but they obviously want less informed material.

Tell them to pack it in. I don't think you'd be doing them any favours by giving them the magazines you've mentioned.

Give them a copy of Littlewoods catalogue, with the lingerie section bookmarked?

Nope. You can't be a respectable teenager if you haven't had to work for porn. And you shouldn't really be encouraging them. They will find a way to "express" themselves!

don't buy them sexist shit magazines. If you want to buy them a mag then get them GQ and they can read something sensible and see scantily clad ladies.

But to be honest I would be concerned about their IT skills if they are struggling to find anything faintly rude on the net.
You should leave them to it if only to make them develop some rudimentary IT skills.

But don't become a pusher of crass stereotypical tit mags. How undignified.

i certainly wouldn`t encourage them to look at porn.Once some images are in your mind they are there for good especially if you come across(no pun intended) something really hard core

wow...strikes me as a little odd to buy your kids rude mags

think if they want porn they should buy it themselves really

the more of a challenge it is the more they'll appreciate it...

Let them use their imagination. Far more wholesome and educational.

And while you're at it, please do share with the rest of us what the settings are on your computer that prevent a determined teenager from accessing anything vaguely pornographic so that I can try to replicate it on our computer.

Good grief, no, don't buy them porn! Just let them to their own devices, if they have no access as there are firewalls, then that's fine, but FGS don't embarrass them (or screw them up) by providing them with porn!

All responses noted and, must say, I feel chastened and rather grubby.
Pagwatch, I wasn't planning to subscribe ,just leave a copy casually in our teetering mound of half-read Sunday supplements...as if there aren't enough crass, stereotypical tits in there already.
On consideration maybe the Littlewoods catalogue is a better idea at their age.(Thanks for that.) Or, indeed, GQ. Or Vogue.
I'd thought the virtue of a mag was that it was less likely to lead them into deep waters than the internet but I've never actually bought Maxim so I may just be naive.

Nah, they have to find ingenious ways to see scantily clad ldies. It's a right of passage for most teens (girls as well as boys).

what everyone else said
and buy Pornland by Gail Dines for yourself.

When my two reach this stage (ETA 2 years ) I intend to turn a blind eye to the odd magazine but no bloody way will I be buying them. Surely no self-respecting teen has his porn prioided by his mother !