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Many teenage boys begin puberty around 12 years, many even earlier. Males are visually stimulated (a fact women have been exploiting for centuries) and pubescent boys are intensely interested in the opposite sex. This is totally instinctive and absolutely natural. Even though conservative forces within our civilization have aribitrarily assumed that ignorance will preserve innocence and that sexual encounters must be deferred as long as possible, pre-teen boys will continue to mature when their biological clock commands. What would Thompson and those like him prefer, that teenager boys use pornography for masturbation, or that they resort to rape when their natural urges overwhelm their self control? Would Thompson prefer boys use prostitutes so their "expectations" are more realistic? It's time for a reality check. Pornography helps boys manage their instinctive sexual urges while living in a culture of denial that imagines puberty can be deferred until the day they are married.