"I don't want to hear anything, nor am I interested. But I am worried about Erika and Eric. I hope they didn't turn out like you," Rebecca remarked.
"Excuse me, they are pure and innocent from the very beginning. But Yelena wasn't. Do you want to know what she—"
"Hey!" Yelena quipped in between. "We are discussing Rudy, don't bring me into this. What do I have to do with—"
"You do. I won't stay quiet when I am accused of something I am not guilty of."
"I caught her watching porn at the age of twelve." Elena lowered her voice and whispered to Rebecca.
"For fuck's sake, sis. Why do you have to do this to me? You can't expose my sins like that."
"You are the one who started it and got your tongue slip."
"Wait, is she telling the truth?" Rebecca couldn't believe what her ears just heard, so she asked Yelena for the confirmation.
"I did not know it was porn."
"How… do you not know what you are watching…?" Rebecca asked, with a confused look on her face. "Were you watching a movie that was heavily focused on sex?"
"No… it was porn… actual… real… porn." Yelena sighed. "You see, my classmate aka my best friend, sent me a link and told me that she found her high school brother watching something one night; the next day when she watched it, her stomach felt funny.
Of course, as a kid, I was excited and curious. How could watching something make someone feel funny? I thought. So naturally, I opened the link, but it didn't open. The page was not reachable.
I told my friend about it and she advised me to use a VPN. Again, I did not know what that was. By the way, I was using sis' old laptop, which she sometimes used even at that time.
I had seen something spelled 'VPN' on her laptop before, so I searched for it and found it with my sis' account logged in— with an active subscription at that.
I followed the instructions my friend gave me and managed to open the link page. The layout was similar to the streaming sites, so I know what to do. I opened the page and watched the video.
Undoubtedly, I didn't know what I was watching, nor was I aware of what they were doing in the video. I just watched the video and as my friend had claimed… my stomach felt funny.
Now, tell me, mother of Rudy, whose fault is it that I was exposed to porn at such a young age?"
"..." Rebecca glanced at Rebecca with a confused and creeped out look on her face.
"Was it the result of bad parenting? No, my parents had made sure to block such sites, and they had parental control on the router.
Was it my best friend's fault who sent me the link? No, because just like me, she didn't know what she was watching.
Was it her high school brother's fault, who was not careful enough to not get caught? Maybe, but he was also underage. Hence, it was illegal for him to use such sites.
I don't know where her brother got that from, probably his friends. But then the question arises, where did his friends get that from?
Perhaps it was sis' fault for leaving her laptop with no password. If she didn't have a VPN subscription active, I wouldn't have been able to open that page.
There are so many things you need to look into before blaming anything. One could just say it was the porn site's fault for existing.
I am a researcher, and I love researching and making case studies. I post my research and case study videos on the internet. 6.9 million people follow me on the internet, so I am not just another teenage girl.
My point is, there are similar cases such as mine and underaged kids getting exposed to porn at such a young age. And they end up committing such acts because of lack of knowledge.
You might have read articles about such cases, victims being neighbours' kids, classmates, or even family members. They don't realise that what they were doing was wrong.
Obviously, there are always people who blame the internet— while they use the same internet to demand a boycott. The irony.
And then there are apologists, who come to defend such cases by calling it a 'next generation' thing. All I see is them getting dumber and dumber as our society advances into the future.
I won't ever write or say the last sentence in my research or case studies, otherwise I would be cancelled. Heh!" She stated her story and ended with a scoff.
"Because it's just you who feel like that. Based, biased… you have to be neutral in your research," Elena advised.
"How did you get caught, though?" Rebecca asked curiously. "You never mentioned that. Did Eleanor see the browser history or something? Since you said it was her laptop?"
"Let me tell you that. She came to me one night and asked me to renew my VPN subscription. I had changed to another VPN service because it provided high speed, and didn't renew the one on my old laptop.
Naturally, I was surprised when Yele asked me to renew. I was like, 'How did you even know what VPN is?'. She told me that she wants to watch a show that is not available in our locality.
I didn't think much of it since back then it was normal for the movies and shows to be unavailable in some countries. So I downloaded the new VPN app on my old laptop and logged in with my account.
That new VPN had many features which I never used. Like password protector, wallet and such. It also had parental control, and it logged the history from the devices in which the VPN app was installed and active.
And what do I find… my twelve-year-old sister watching porn. You can't imagine how angry I was. I was going straight to mom and dad and telling them, but she begged me not to. And she promised me that she wouldn't watch something like that again."
"Oh? Are you not going to mention how you used that to blackmail me into doing things ever since that day?"
"I… am speechless. I don't know what to say…" Rebecca mumbled. "Does this…issue… run in your family blood?"
Meanwhile, Rudy could not leave the washroom.
