Don't know where to put this, but thought someone somewhere ought to know that there is a 15 year old lad going by the name of DoctorDan on the flirtbox site. Is this allowed?

Hm...Flirtbox is not a porn site.

I am not sure about this myself....but there is a protection which I will not explain here....

Apart from that there are also dating sites with 10 year olds, such
as http://www.onlineglueck.de, so compared to 10 year olds 15 year olds are quite mature,

but i need to check that...i am not resident in the UK so I stick with the German laws and I am not aware of any age restrictions for dating sites in general. Parents should control the internet bahaviour of their kids and when they are on a dating site - the parents should check their pictures and maye have a look at the messages - and in general talk to them and teach them to be cautious and not to date date 50 year old dodgy men at midnight in a forest.

I also think parents should allow it, this way they control the internet behaviour better then if they have to do it secretly.....

I also think it is safer if people see that they are underage then if they are forced to pretend to be 18.

I wish dating sites and affordable internet existed when I was 15

me too... i might have met a decent guy instead of the LOSER i ended up with

but since i still haven't met a decent guy remotely near me, i guess i would have ended up with the loser anyway.

oh well.

What in gods name are 9 year olds doing on a dating site.

making friends? lol

Looks to me like a site to attract perverts tbh.

I wouldn't let no 9 year old son or daughter of mine anywhere near a site of that nature, you might called me old fashioned, but prevention is better than cure.

well... with kids, if you put a big "don't look behind this sign", sign... they'll look...just for the sheer pleasure of rebelling.

i don't know about anyone else but i was a nightmare when i was younger. lord. my poor mother. i think i should ring and apologise for almost giving her a nervous breakdown when i was a kid.

i bet my kids turn out worse. god.

as long as kids are not online all the time, they can learn a lot on the internet...but parents need to have a really good relationship to their parents to that they can talk about everything....if they dont talk to their parents they would never mention they were talking to an older guy and then it probably gets dangerous..as long as they dont have any secrets it is ok.

maybe i am too liberal but i would even say (against most opinions) that it does not even harm kids that are 12 or 13 to look at porn sites.....i think most people exaggerate with the protection of teenagers as far as these things is concerned and achieve the opposite. in countries with strict laws there are far more pregnant teenagers then in countries with liberal laws. the same with alkohol - in countries where you are allowed to drink alcohol at the age of 14, 15 or 16 less (teenage) alcoholics exists than in countries with the legal age of 18 or even 21.

in my experience, there are also more perverted people in countries that always try to hide nudity and cover up porn magazines in shops and censor movies and films a lot than in countries where everything is accessible and not hidden away from the public.

all the really nasty porn sites come from the usa or belong to people/companies from the usa -one of the strictest and most conservative countries in the world.

i have never seen a swedish/finnish porn site for instance...where people are more liberal and nudity is more common as every family has their own sauna.

And how do they know they are talking to an older guy.

I'm sorry toby, but to have a 9 year old on a dating site is a no no for me.

How would you feel if it was your daughter or son, and they went to meet someone some how, and ended up being interfered with.

Parents cannot be there/watch 100% of the time.

I have parental control on my kids access to the internet. The dangers have been explained. They went through a phase of wondering how it was I could go on dating sites to chat but they couldn't go into chat rooms. I just continued to insist that they couldn't because of the dangers etc. And just incase they are tempted, I can also check to see where they've been online!!!

I totally agree Tracy, the internet can be/is a nasty place, it's a perverts paradise.