LJ now has age filters up. If your friends correctly use them when they swear or post racy stuff, then if he's signed out, he has to click a link to either lie about or verify his age.
I have no idea how old he is, and I don't want to freak you out, but I've been telling smutty sites (basically written porn. usually softcore, the harder core writing is pretty laughable because it's poorly written) that I'm old enough to read them since I was 15 (I'm now 21, so I no longer have to lie anymore).
If he has an account and he's given his correct birth year, LJ will automatically lock him out of racier posts (again, assuming that your LJ friends have correctly tagged their posts as inappropriate for anyone under the age of 14, 17 or legal adult). And, so long as your son isn't smart enough to log out of his account and make a new one lying about his age, he should be alright content wise. To be honest, it *never* occurred to me until the past year or so to blatently lie about my age (claim I was born in the 1950s), and I've only done so because verifying that I'm old enough to read adultfanfiction.net is a pain in the ass. I have to specify a month, date, year and then sign my name. It's gotten to the point where I just click any random month, date year (usually somewhere around the 1950s or the 1940s) and type in random letters to the 'signature' portion.
I often find the whole "inappropriate for someone under 14" rating amusing, since you have to at least be 13 in order to *get* an account.
Again, I don't know how old your kid is, but as a suggestion, if you're worried about what he reads online, I'd suggest talking to him about your concerns. And then offering to discuss anything he has questions about. Because there are ways that kids can run across things their parents don't approve of accidentally (geocities used to run pretty racy ads, last I saw, Facebook does too).
I'm only suggesting that because I got all my sex education from the Internetz, simply because my parents were not okay with discussing sex with me. I got a book instead of an actual discussion on what *really* goes on during sex. All the book told me was the uh...'insertion' part. It never told me why the hell you'd want to do that. It never told me what lead up to that. I had already read my mother's smut books (Catherine Coulter = All the awesome!), so I figured foreplay was part of it, but because I don't believe anything from just *one* source, I wanted to know if the foreplay part was true. The sex ed book didn't tell me any of *that* all it gave me was the insertion.
And I was all "...that's it? So *how* do you get there?! Are you just sitting around, watching TV and then you're all, 'Hey, let's stick tab A into slot B and make a baby!' 'Okay!'" I didn't get the *why* you'd want to, simply because my mother was too much of a coward to *tell* me about foreplay leading into the insertion. And about how you have raging hormones to urge you to move *into* the foreplay.
Which, had I been a boy, I might have known right that part right off the bat. The part I wouldn't have known was how to make it good for the girl, because my dad's not comfortable talking about sex either, and I'm sure it wouldn't be any different if I were a boy. I'm sure I would've only been informed about the insertion part and nothing else. And I'm sure that being a boy with raging hormones, I would've had the guts to say "well, that's all well and good, dad, but HOW DO I CONVINCE A GIRL TO LET ME INSERT IT?!" Because that's what my 8th grade boyfriend was the most interested in. How to get me to have sex with him.
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But like I said, I don't know how old your son is, or what your relationship with him is like, so I'm basing all this off assumptions, and please don't be too harsh with me if I'm insanely off the mark [[hides]]
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I have no idea how old he is, and I don't want to freak you out, but I've been telling smutty sites (basically written porn. usually softcore, the harder core writing is pretty laughable because it's poorly written) that I'm old enough to read them since I was 15 (I'm now 21, so I no longer have to lie anymore).
If he has an account and he's given his correct birth year, LJ will automatically lock him out of racier posts (again, assuming that your LJ friends have correctly tagged their posts as inappropriate for anyone under the age of 14, 17 or legal adult). And, so long as your son isn't smart enough to log out of his account and make a new one lying about his age, he should be alright content wise. To be honest, it *never* occurred to me until the past year or so to blatently lie about my age (claim I was born in the 1950s), and I've only done so because verifying that I'm old enough to read adultfanfiction.net is a pain in the ass. I have to specify a month, date, year and then sign my name. It's gotten to the point where I just click any random month, date year (usually somewhere around the 1950s or the 1940s) and type in random letters to the 'signature' portion.
I often find the whole "inappropriate for someone under 14" rating amusing, since you have to at least be 13 in order to *get* an account.
Again, I don't know how old your kid is, but as a suggestion, if you're worried about what he reads online, I'd suggest talking to him about your concerns. And then offering to discuss anything he has questions about. Because there are ways that kids can run across things their parents don't approve of accidentally (geocities used to run pretty racy ads, last I saw, Facebook does too).
I'm only suggesting that because I got all my sex education from the Internetz, simply because my parents were not okay with discussing sex with me. I got a book instead of an actual discussion on what *really* goes on during sex. All the book told me was the uh...'insertion' part. It never told me why the hell you'd want to do that. It never told me what lead up to that. I had already read my mother's smut books (Catherine Coulter = All the awesome!), so I figured foreplay was part of it, but because I don't believe anything from just *one* source, I wanted to know if the foreplay part was true. The sex ed book didn't tell me any of *that* all it gave me was the insertion.
And I was all "...that's it? So *how* do you get there?! Are you just sitting around, watching TV and then you're all, 'Hey, let's stick tab A into slot B and make a baby!' 'Okay!'" I didn't get the *why* you'd want to, simply because my mother was too much of a coward to *tell* me about foreplay leading into the insertion. And about how you have raging hormones to urge you to move *into* the foreplay.
Which, had I been a boy, I might have known right that part right off the bat. The part I wouldn't have known was how to make it good for the girl, because my dad's not comfortable talking about sex either, and I'm sure it wouldn't be any different if I were a boy. I'm sure I would've only been informed about the insertion part and nothing else. And I'm sure that being a boy with raging hormones, I would've had the guts to say "well, that's all well and good, dad, but HOW DO I CONVINCE A GIRL TO LET ME INSERT IT?!" Because that's what my 8th grade boyfriend was the most interested in. How to get me to have sex with him.
< /end advice >
But like I said, I don't know how old your son is, or what your relationship with him is like, so I'm basing all this off assumptions, and please don't be too harsh with me if I'm insanely off the mark [[hides]]