‘Says Who’ – No. Good bochurim will not go OTD from just bad images. If their basic family life and if their peer support is good, they will generally do teshuva and thats the end. I said that bad images are a catalyst to a process. If a chemical catalyst has nothing to work with, it won’t begin a chemical process. Kids who have problems will be exacerbated by this stuff. The answer is not assering internet, that can’t be done. That approach is obviously bankrupt, it hasn’t worked at all, no matter what the establishment gedolim have done. The answer to any educational problem is education. Explaining the dangers, telling them horror stories. even naming names if need be. The kids should understand clearly that there are dangers. A good educator can tell on a kid what’s going on inside. Every kid has hot steam inside. If its channeled to Torah, then the kid becomes Torah’dik. If not, the kid starts cooking with Yetzer Hora. If you see a kid who is not cooking Torah, then this kid must be given a vent for the steam. The answer is kosher vents. Some outside educational study that will keep the mind busy. Then the kid will be able to do both – Torah study and anything else. There’s a huge fallacy being callously spread in our community. That all our boys are top of the line and the girls want them. And that means that if at 15 a boy realizes he isn’t top of the line, this boy is now at risk. Because all he hears from rebbeim and roshei yeshiva is that the tachlis is to be top of the line. And if you aren’t, then you aren’t good. Hey thinks the boy, if I’m not good anyway, what do I care. Add in some disaffected attitude at home, some inappropriate internet and bingo OTD. On the other hand, give this boy a reason to think that he can become a great baal habos, and you haven’t lost him. Education people that’s the answer to it all. And our “educators” don’t get it.
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