to think that Billy Bob and Zak Make a Porno (or whatever their names are) is quite an offensive title?

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Saw this advertised in huge letters on the side of a bus today, and thought it quite offensive. Am I getting old?

"Mummy, what is 'porno'?"

"Well, darling, it is a film of people having sex."

"What's sex?"

"Why is it a film?"

"So that people can watch it."

"Why do they watch it, mummy?"

"because it makes them want to have sex too."

"Why, mummy?"

Well, I don't know about you lot, but I wouldn't want that conversation with a three year old!!!!!

well

to start with it's actually called

"Zack and Miri Make a Porno " and it's about a woman and a man (miri and Zack) who run into financial difficulty and so they decide to make a porno film.

I don't mind that that is what the film is called, but I do mind that they advertise it on the side of buses. I am just waiting for my 7 year old ds to say "What's a porno?"

And tbh, he could have read that when he was 5, and what are you as a parent supposed to answer? I know he has to find out about sex, I'm not that naive, but to find out about porno movies from a bus????

tell him 'a porno is a film for adults, you will leaall about them when you are older'

thanks beanieb
hardly something to loose sleep over

child has incomplete understanding you can give tame answer "porn is 2 people liking each other"

confused. Its a title of a film, if they don't watch it then, good they are too young. But doesn't everyone have the same dilema every day at the questions that siblings ask. tbh, after the initial awkwardness wtf its :D to yourself at how inadequately you may have dealt with it.

Hmm, right ScottishMummy, I'll tell him that. But bear in mind that my ds takes most thins very literally....

So he will then go in to school and say to his best friend - "I like you very much - that's porno isn't it?" Then ds's friend repats the conversation to his parents and I will be

Yes StubbleOnChin, that would be fine, if it wasn't advertised in very large letters on the sides of buses, which a lot of 5/6/7 year olds can read.

what a fuss as parents we negotiate tricky and hard questions all the time.wait til they ask you about sex/drugs

it is an 18 movie approved by classification board.no biggie

this will crop up all the time.either

a harrumph indignantly about offensive/well i never/oh my giddy aunt

b deal with it.compose an appropriate answer

Precisely, ds4 read it himself, I do answer awkward questions Scottishmummy - i teach sex and reproduction to my pupils as part of their science curriculum - we start with shouting out "vagina, penis etc" so they can feel more able to say "the word" BUT, and it's a bloomin big but - why would i want to explain about the pornography industry to my youngest - he knows about sex, i certainly couldn't fob him off with such boll**s as mentioned earlier in the thread so the only sort of reasonable explanation would be along the lines of "it's where people display their bodies for the sexual titillation of others and get paid for it" - he really does not need to go there now, yes later but not now.

but if a responsible adult composes appropriative answer that balances tittle tattle from chum

they will hear both

Reading and comprehension are two different things. If they are reading without comprehension then isn't it the point of education, to discuss and actually educate the person. wether it be adult or child. I can see the point but a little bit too defensive imho.

I have to admit, I find the advert offensive myself, not just because of children's awkward questions. I don't want to have to think about the porn industry at all, thankyou. Maybe I am a prude .

well no one particularly initiates a dichotomy of porn but if it crops up discuss.dont avoid

I wonder if they'd get away with "Zack Makes Miri a Prostitute"?

zack and miri have an inoffensive resolution to financial crisis.so no prudes offended

Oh, I'd probably go and watch that one.

straight to dvd,not racy enough

Pre-ordered from Amazon.

The thread title asks if it's offensive. I can't see how it is.

beanieb, look up a bit, at my post 23:47. That's why I find it offensive.

To OP: YANBU.

'Tis the seedy world of porn seeping further into the mainstream.

DS1 (nearly 5) is still at the "Hah! Look at mummy's hairy front bottom!" stage. Easy enough to explain in our bathroom at home. I can imagine that when he can read properly , it won't be so easy to explain the porno thing on a crowded bus in a queue of traffic when he sees it on the back of the bus in front.

There is a place for having to explain such things, goddammit! I wouldn't want to have to explain my hairy front bottom in a public place, ditto what the word porno means!