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Is it wrong for parents to have sex so loudly that their children can overhear?

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Thank you for your thoughtful comment!

I walked in on my uncle watching porn once when I was 5 or 6, and it wasn’t a traumatic experience. I only remember it because of how the adults around me reacted when I said something.

This reminded of the parenting advice that when children hurt themselves (e.g trip over) freaking out about it is training them to freak out at the pain more - the calmer you are about it, the less tears are shed.

Basically this is the same way I feel about nudity - you don't freak out and yell at your kid for accidentally seeing you naked, you instead explain that people appreciate privacy regarding their body, so one should look away when someone is undressed. I presume this is what you mean by 'the way we treat nudity and sex isn't great.'

Ethics aside, there could be legal ramifications

Yes, I actually found out recently that there's a crime called corrupting a minor, which usually means showing them porn or sex acts. I think it would only apply to overheard-sex if the child made the parents aware, asked them to avoid the activity, and yet it continued. I, not being bothered by it, simply never bought it up (pretty sure I was a teenager when i first overheard.)

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If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?

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I’ve taught him about “low quality” content and we’ve watched a couple so he could understand what I meant. Now, when he wants to watch something like that, I say “no, that’s going to be low quality,” he seems to understand and we move on to find something else.

Honestly never thought about how I would teach my (hypothetical, future) kid this stuff. I have the benefit of a decade of experience learning how youtube works and living through the clickbait endemic.
I guess that's why it's so important for parents to navigate YouTube together with them. My first experience of YT was also watching cool stuff like VSauce and Lego animations with my family.

That said, we were at a restaurant the other day and a woman was there with her baby and a friend. She set that infant in a high chair with AI slop on her phone right in its face. The kid definitely didn’t disturb her conversation, because it looked like a zombie. Godspeed, child

Sometimes you see toddlers who are just playing blaring loud noises from tablets at restaurants. You also see adults&teenagers doing that on trains... I guess I would point them out to my kid afterwards and say "that's what happens when you watch too mcuh brainrot!"

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i presume he's picking on you because you're a young woman and he sees them as "easy targets" to release anger upon. Honestly happens to me a bit too, some people get annoyed or jealous when they see younger people.

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Grey sweatpant season

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since it's dakota johnson on the right, i'm tempted to say fifty shades of grey, and since it's not the usual love interest (mr gray), i'm guessing she has a boy toy in the...4th? 3rd? movie or something. I haven't watched any of the 50 shades of grey movies. The outfits do match though.

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Is it wrong for parents to have sex so loudly that their children can overhear?

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The fact they don’t see anything wrong with this is somewhat disturbing. (...) you’d think they would make a minimum effort to mask it from their children.

They would do it at night, I'm guessing they had no idea how audible it was on the various audible occasions. So I'd say they made effort to mask it - they're certainly not exhbitionists. Other instances I've read about seem far worse.