Of generation gaps and awkward conversations

Okay, this was actually supposed to be a part of the last entry, but sleep overcame me, so to speak, and i didn't get anywhere close to broaching the topic which i am about to, well, broach, now.

This entry is going to be about a highly interesting (highly interesting according to me, at least) conversation i had with my brother a while back. Before i proceed, a little bit of background info.

My brother is 13 years old (will turn 14 in july), is learning to play the drums, has an extremely high opinion of himself, listens to rock (thanks to me) and nu-metal (thanks to god knows who), is now taller than me, wants to grow his hair long and is a general nuisance and quite a smartass. Basically the usual teenage boy.

Coming to the actual conversation (keep the aforementioned things in mind while reading). A few months ago, i walked into the room where the computer's kept and saw him using it. I sat around waiting for him to finish whatever he was doing coz i needed to use it too.

Incidentally, in the past few months, we've started to get along pretty well and talk quite often. So generally we started talking, about this and that.

Then, in the middle of our conversation, he's like, "jeez, i'm so bored of porn man". Now i'm a pretty open-minded big sister (he'd showed me the finger at the dinner table when he was in the 4th grade and i hadn't said a word. My dad did ask him to NEVER do that rude gesture ever again....) and i know it's perfectly normal for boys his age (or any age for that matter) to watch porn, but i wasn't exactly prepared for the i'm-bored-of-porn bit.

But still, to keep the lines of communication open, and to be broadminded about the whole thing, i started telling him how it's completely normal for people to watch porn, and how everyone goes through this stage but how one should be careful to not let things out of hand (whatever that meant!!). He came back with a " i know didi, c'mon, i'm not a kid you know".

Feeling chastised, i decided to shut up and mind my own business when he asked me, "so you must've watched porn too right?". Now for the record, i HAVEN'T. The only thing that i've seen remotely related to anything like that was the dps video (which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience, honestly speaking). Anyway, after sitting with my mouth open for about ten seconds, i again told him the oh-everyone-goes-through-that-stage bit.

He wasn't very impressed with my answer but decided to let it pass (thank god!!). I was hoping that that would be the end of our little tete-a-tete but of course, it wasn't. He started telling me about how exactly he gets hold of the porn, when his friends started watching porn (either he didn't tell me when he started or my memory has sort of blocked it out), how it's no big deal (kid brother telling older sister porn is no big deal. What is the world coming to?) etc etc etc.

Before he could reach the inevitable, "didi where do babies come from?" (knowing fully well where exactly they came from and how exactly they come about. I know for a fact he's had 'that conversation' with an adult.), i decided to make my escape and sneaked out of the room when he got a little too engrossed in his Age Of Empires game (thank heaven's he wasn't watching porn in front of me!).

Now i've been dragged into a lot of amazingly uncomfortable conversations, but this one features amongst the top three.

Wonder if he's still bored of porn though........