The other day I went through an experience that I am sure many other parents have been through at one time or another. Let me start from the beginning. I went over to this video rental store where I usually frequent and got some VCD that I was sure my young son would enjoy. The guy is in his early teens and loves action movies and fast cars like most kids his age, I suppose.

Now the problem with this rental place is that there's a new girl who is very polite but not very helpful.
From what I have gathered so far, she hardly watches movies herself, which completely disqualifies her for the job.

So whenever I am selecting anything to watch these days, I can not expect too much help from her. From
the brief synopsis on this particular VCD, it looked harmless enough and seemed to be all about this
car-racing gang. The sort of high speed thrills and fast cars that my young son thrives on and loves to
watch. Just like many other kids his age, I suppose. In retrospect, I must admit that I did notice a
picture of a woman on the vcd cover, but she was fully dressed, by modern standards at least.

So I got home and just as I predicted, it was one of the first VCDs my son chose to play. I went off to do
something else in the house. Then, a few minutes later, as I was passing the living room I noticed something strange. My son had the volume turned off but was watching the movie. This was very strange indeed, because I always have a problem getting him to keep the volume down. Now here was a case where he seemed to be enjoying this movie with no sound at all.

I stopped and looked in asking him why he was watching the movie with no sound. He reckoned that he was doing a quick review, he does that sometimes. So I said it was okay and went off again to do something else. When I came back into the living room much later, my son hands me over the VCD and tells me that it's all porn. "There are fast cars, alright dad, but it is all porn. They are even doing it on the moving cars." I was shocked beyond words; it was one of those very rare moments where I had nothing to say to my son.

I kept aside the VCD but later sat alone to review it. It was not really porn but there were plenty of pretty
steamy sex scenes and a lot of nudity; definitely not the sort of stuff I would have liked to have my son
watching.

In fact shortly after I started reviewing it, I had to turn the sound off. Didn't want anybody in the next
room getting the wrong idea. Not my son and not my wife or the other kids. I figured that it was made by these guys who wanted to cash in on sex and fast cars to make their terribly-made third-rate trash popular. They seemed to have a sex scene after every two or three badly-acted scenes.

My son had watched it all, but knowing that I would most probably come across the VCD's contents sooner or later, he had just made sure that he told me before I found out for myself what the contents were. Clever guy and no marks for guessing where he's inherited his brains from.

We have never discussed that particular movie again to date. Not that anybody is embarrassed or anything. Only that neither if us has anything to say about it.

Of course I am a lot more careful selecting VCDs, videos and so on, but the damage is already done and
there really is no guarantee that even with my increased vigilance, it ill not happen again.

I have not told his mother about the incident yet. Please do not ask me when I intend to do so.