# Ever had a child get totally freaked out from adult content? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931 "2010-08-21T01:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/21 "2010-08-21T15:43:28Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > One of the things that freaked me out when I was young was the [Sam Peckinpah’s Salad Days](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnv7tXEBATc) sketch on Monty Python, which I had snuck out of bed to see at age 4. And that’s probably why to this day I don’t like excess gratuitous gore. As a big time Monty Python lover, at first I thought this was odd and a little funny. But then I remembered that I was totally freaked out by [The Sausages Skit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiGRpm6Tf3I&feature=search) by Kids in the Hall. I couldn’t watch KITH for years… my husband slowly started reintroducing KITH to me just in the last couple years. I didn’t watch it for well over a decade. Anyway, I was so disturbed that I don’t think I’ve eaten a sausage product since. No bratwurst, no kielbasa, no chorizo, no breakfast links… nothing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/22 "2010-08-21T19:38:01Z")
I got freaked out when I was around nine years old from seeing the movie _The Fiddler On the Roof_. What upset me was the historic fact of “Old World” cultures in which daughters were seen as beloved burdens to be married off ASAP. The viewing was a treat by my best friend, as it was her B-day party. I held it together until I got home, then was just hysterically upset. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/23 "2010-08-21T21:00:41Z")
I was very upset by “War of the Worlds” movie when I was a child. Nearly 50 years later. the thought of watching it makes my skin crawl. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/24 "2010-08-21T21:51:11Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I don’t swim, and never learned, to this day because I got taken to see ‘Jaws’ when I was about 7. For years afterward I wouldn’t even go in swimming pools that were clear as bells. When I was little my Aunt took me to see Jaws, and when the movie was over she drove me to the beach. Another time she took me to see Amityville Horror, and then drove me to the house in Amityville. When I was older, I considered taking her to see The Blair Witch Project, and then driving to a property I know of in the woods with abandoned decaying houses… ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/25 "2010-08-21T22:07:48Z")
My kids don’t get scared by anything. I never did either. When I was a kid, I loved horror movies, monster movies and gore. I was un-scareable. Still am. When my kids see violence or gore on TV, I always tell them that it’s fake, and tell them how they do it. Now they start saying, “oh, that’s so fake…those are obviously rubber intestines,” when they see it. Teaching them how to be aware of the artifice stops them from being freaked out. The only time I can remember one of them being really scared was by some kind of giant, sweet and sour pork monster on South Park. She was like 4. She was ridiculously scared by it. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/26 "2010-08-21T22:17:58Z")
_South Park_ is one of those shows definitely on my “no-no” list for my kids…due to language. We have a teenaged daughter that has some anger/respect issues (particularly when she hears the word “no”) and she uses bad language towards us, so we already fight an uphill battle against the wee ones hearing that stuff. But I’m on board with some horror movies as long as its not too intense, foul-mouthed or packed with sex or nudity. Its actually kind of fun to see them saying how fake something is (and this is usually due to the fact that the only acceptable horror movies anymore are older, like _Jaws_ or _Poltergeist_ whose special effects aren’t as good as more modern movies). ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/27 "2010-08-21T22:44:50Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > > [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > > > I don’t swim, and never learned, to this day because I got taken to see ‘Jaws’ when I was about 7. For years afterward I wouldn’t even go in swimming pools that were clear as bells. > > When I was little my Aunt took me to see Jaws, and when the movie was over she drove me to the beach. > > Another time she took me to see Amityville Horror, and then drove me to the house in Amityville. > > When I was older, I considered taking her to see The Blair Witch Project, and then driving to a property I know of in the woods with abandoned decaying houses… Not horror-related, but your last comment reminded me of this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WXPQ4WkZnv8/hqdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - I Remember Larry \*With Lyrics\*") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXPQ4WkZnv8) ---
**Author:** ![Jennmonkye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@Jennmonkye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennmonkye)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/28 "2010-08-21T22:53:09Z")
For years I was freaked out by a nightmare that began for me as a small child. As a young college student, I realized that my nightmare was actually the death scene from Logan’s Run, a movie I watched as a small child, then promptly forgot, only to terrify me at night. As it goes, I wouldn’t consider it today to be something that would be scary to a small child that might see it. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/29 "2010-08-21T23:19:49Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Not horror-related, but your last comment reminded me of this: LOL. I swear it was no where near that sinister 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/30 "2010-08-21T23:30:57Z")
I’ve had many students freaking out from academics. One child who was diagnosed as autistic would throw tantrums when facing math problems. By the “guardians’” logic, we should protect them from school. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931/31 "2010-08-21T23:31:59Z")
The other night I was watching an episode of “Bleach” that contained a particularly bloody and violent fight. My daughter woke up and saw part of it, and that night she had a nightmare about severed limbs and a little girl eating a baby (though no babies were eaten, and no one lost limbs in that episode.) She’s not allowed to watch most episodes of “Bleach” anymore. It doesn’t even have to be adult content. My daughter once saw an episode of “The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody” in which they snuck out to see the movie “Zombie Mom” without their mother’s permission. That night she dreamed that Zombie Mom was after her, and twice more in the following years. For years afterward she was terrified of zombies, and was convinced that they existed. So even Disney Channel shows aren’t completely free of potential nightmare material. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-child-get-totally-freaked-out-from-adult-content/550931.md?page=1)