PJ Vogt

What this adds up to that feels so new to me is that, crucially, these teens at Pali High, they're not describing the internet as a place that's helping them make sense of themselves and of their latent desires the way it did for me and many of my peers. What they're saying is that their internet is pressuring everyone towards the sex they see online.

What this adds up to that feels so new to me is that, crucially, these teens at Pali High, they're not describing the internet as a place that's helping them make sense of themselves and of their latent desires the way it did for me and many of my peers. What they're saying is that their internet is pressuring everyone towards the sex they see online.

What this adds up to that feels so new to me is that, crucially, these teens at Pali High, they're not describing the internet as a place that's helping them make sense of themselves and of their latent desires the way it did for me and many of my peers. What they're saying is that their internet is pressuring everyone towards the sex they see online.

And what we all see online, whether it's opinions or sex acts, is always going to be tuned towards the most outrageous, the most attention-grabbing. What sticks out becomes popular. What's popular becomes the norm. I asked Lauren to help me make sense of all this.

And what we all see online, whether it's opinions or sex acts, is always going to be tuned towards the most outrageous, the most attention-grabbing. What sticks out becomes popular. What's popular becomes the norm. I asked Lauren to help me make sense of all this.

And what we all see online, whether it's opinions or sex acts, is always going to be tuned towards the most outrageous, the most attention-grabbing. What sticks out becomes popular. What's popular becomes the norm. I asked Lauren to help me make sense of all this.

Now you have this behavior that between two consenting adults might be one thing, but asking a teenager to responsibly choke another teenager feels dangerous. It feels like we've accidentally backslid into something that we didn't mean to because we wanted to make the phones as interesting as possible so there could be ads for toilet paper on them or whatever.

Now you have this behavior that between two consenting adults might be one thing, but asking a teenager to responsibly choke another teenager feels dangerous. It feels like we've accidentally backslid into something that we didn't mean to because we wanted to make the phones as interesting as possible so there could be ads for toilet paper on them or whatever.

Now you have this behavior that between two consenting adults might be one thing, but asking a teenager to responsibly choke another teenager feels dangerous. It feels like we've accidentally backslid into something that we didn't mean to because we wanted to make the phones as interesting as possible so there could be ads for toilet paper on them or whatever.

It's weird, though, because it's, like, they're watching... I swear to God, I'm not, like, nostalgic and conservative for a pre-Internet era. I like the Internet. I use the Internet. I, like, will defend the Internet to many people.

It's weird, though, because it's, like, they're watching... I swear to God, I'm not, like, nostalgic and conservative for a pre-Internet era. I like the Internet. I use the Internet. I, like, will defend the Internet to many people.

It's weird, though, because it's, like, they're watching... I swear to God, I'm not, like, nostalgic and conservative for a pre-Internet era. I like the Internet. I use the Internet. I, like, will defend the Internet to many people.

But, you know, if it was 1982 and this PG-13 movie came out that was all about the joys of BDSM or an R-rated movie that teens were sneaking into, like, that's what would have actually happened. then, like, you know, there would have been a concerned PTA meeting, and people would have been like, teens are seeing this, you should have a conversation. Some parents would have tried to restrict it.

But, you know, if it was 1982 and this PG-13 movie came out that was all about the joys of BDSM or an R-rated movie that teens were sneaking into, like, that's what would have actually happened. then, like, you know, there would have been a concerned PTA meeting, and people would have been like, teens are seeing this, you should have a conversation. Some parents would have tried to restrict it.

But, you know, if it was 1982 and this PG-13 movie came out that was all about the joys of BDSM or an R-rated movie that teens were sneaking into, like, that's what would have actually happened. then, like, you know, there would have been a concerned PTA meeting, and people would have been like, teens are seeing this, you should have a conversation. Some parents would have tried to restrict it.

Others would have, like, had the talk, whatever. But you would kind of know the media environment that the smaller people you're trying to help guide into bigger people were in. And so you just have an idea about what conversations you wanted to even try to have. Instead, it's like the teenagers are just in their own internet.

Others would have, like, had the talk, whatever. But you would kind of know the media environment that the smaller people you're trying to help guide into bigger people were in. And so you just have an idea about what conversations you wanted to even try to have. Instead, it's like the teenagers are just in their own internet.

Others would have, like, had the talk, whatever. But you would kind of know the media environment that the smaller people you're trying to help guide into bigger people were in. And so you just have an idea about what conversations you wanted to even try to have. Instead, it's like the teenagers are just in their own internet.

I'd really never appreciated the absurdity of this. Every month, I skim past another idiotic story about a book ban fight at a library somewhere, some politician making hay about a children's book with a trans dad or something. We're fighting about libraries, as if libraries in 2025 are the average kid's go-to source of information.

I'd really never appreciated the absurdity of this. Every month, I skim past another idiotic story about a book ban fight at a library somewhere, some politician making hay about a children's book with a trans dad or something. We're fighting about libraries, as if libraries in 2025 are the average kid's go-to source of information.