[user104658]

Originally Posted by Zee

I kind of agree in theory, but then it's that same attitude that causes so many gay teenagers to commit suicide because their parents have brought them up to believe that homosexuality isn't normal and is something to be ashamed of. If you're into rape fantasies or S&M or any other fetish under the sun, that can't be helped any more than you can help what your sexual orientation or skin colour is. You are who you are.

You misunderstand me, I'm not advocating pressing opinions on them - just allowing them to explore and understand all aspects of the weird and wonderful world without hiding things away or making them "off limits". It would be more a case of, "there's no such thing as normal, some people like things that others find weird, so long as no ones getting hurt these things are totally subjective". There are literally no topics of.conversation off limits in our family...

All I'm saying is, that you can MAKE these things into unhealthy obsessions specifically by trying to censor them and hide them away, as a lot of parents do, and as people seem to be inclined to let the government do for us now (with net censorship via the ISPs).