First of all, I don't know what people were expecting when they sat down and turned on a Lifetime movie named, "Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life". Were you looking for a blockbuster? The title tells you up front, that this will be an after-school-special type of flick. Add in the fact that it is shown on Lifetime Television For Women, and you know it's going to be anti-porn.As a TV movie, it wasn't that bad. No worse than the rest of the movies they play on LMN. It kept me entertained, which was the point. Then again, I love Lifetime movies. Sometimes it's nice to just put your mind in neutral and enjoy a silly or cheesy movie on a lazy afternoon.Go into it with that attitude and you'll probably enjoy it. If you want a thriller or an action flick, look elsewhere (obviously!). This was cute, cheesy, and not a horrible way to spend an hour and a half.5/10

Not many movies provoke such a strong emotional response from me, but this one, I can honestly say, I absolutely despise. Contrived premise aside, the utterly reprehensible cast of characters has issues (especially with consistency) way beyond the protagonist's overplayed porn addiction. For example:The mother, who's basically just this detestable ball of demanding self-righteousness and head-shaking disapproval, baits her husband rather bluntly with sex on the condition that he agrees to spend money on an expensive vacation. Later on, she worries that porn might give her son the wrong impression of what a real relationship should be about.The dad is being portrayed as a babbling moron whose insights into life are invariably wrong, stupid, dangerous, sexist and unhealthy, yet he's one of only two characters *in the entire movie* to point out that an increased interest in sexual imagery may actually be somewhat normal for a teenage boy.There's no reasonable middle ground whatsoever when it comes to the boy's sportive achievements, and everyone keeps responding to them in ridiculous outbursts of binary extremes. What I mean is, the coach and the parents praise the boy for getting accepted into the state swim team, but subsequently treat him like the absolute scum of the earth for merely placing third(!) in a national(!!) swimming competition. The mother even uses this supposed disastrous failure as an excuse to throw a fit about the boy's educational future.Speaking of fits, there's a scene where this lovely woman ponders her inability to properly communicate with her son... and you know what immediately follows this moment of profound introspection? Another hysteric fit where she shrieks at the boy's face for having brought poisonous porn into her idyllic home.The main character doesn't fare much better as far as likability goes, though his habit of lying through his teeth every chance he gets is slightly less annoying by comparison, given that he's actually *supposed* to be a confused person. Besides, douchy as he may be, the poor kid really is stuck in an uncomfortable situation. It's obvious that there's very little he can do to actually please his peers and family instead of provoking some overblown, negative reaction from them. In fact, the movie makes it rather clear that the *only* acceptable behavior for Justin is to either lie about, or suppress his true feelings for the sake of everyone else's happiness. Expressing an interest in real sex is bad, merely wanting to have real sex is bad, looking at porn instead of wanting to have real sex is bad, in essence, having a penis is bad. Yeah, Justin's got it tough.Anyway, as far as the story's concerned, the whole thing is just a contrived downward spiral where relatively normal teenager behavior gives rise to pretty grotesque conflicts, like the alienation of exactly those friends who got Justin hooked on porn in the first place, or an act of severe (and rather random) self-mutilation by some whorish side character whom Justin had refused to have sex with. It all culminates in some ambiguous, suicidal death scene, but sadly, not the mother's.All in all, this movie is a sickening experience for anyone who's ever spent as much as a minute in friggin' *reality*. The morals are blaringly inconsistent, the characters are either complete buffoons (the males), or hypersensitive harpies (the females) and the story is just a vehicle for the cringeworthy message.

Well one thing is for sure: to this movie, porn is the most evil thing in the universe. More evil than Hitler.Looking at a single nak.... well actually, they aren't even naked in the photos, so it isn't porn in the first place. But a single look at a scantily clad woman is enough to SERIOUSLY PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARM YOUR CHILD and HE WILL BECOME A STARK RAVING SEX ADDICTED PSYCHOPATH... AND it will destroy your family too... and he will go on to cause world war 3.... and he will end up causing the human race extinction!!! oooOOOOOooooo... Give me a break.What's funny is the f***ed up hypocrisy with the parents. The parents allow both their sons to play GTA, a game which requires extreme violence to play. Stealing cars, blowing people up, spraying crowds with a minigun, robbing stores, etc... But god forbid they see something NATURAL, such as a woman's figure (sense remember, in the movie, it's not actually porn), they might get an ADDICTION and go insane!!!!! But GTA, nah they can handle that, nothing wrong with it at all. Go kill some more tourists little Timmy, but don't you dare go and do anything natural! And the fact that he's "addicted" to it... Heh, if you can get addicted to that, you might as well be addicted to anything: candy, sports, television, pogo sticks, yodeling, FARMVILLE, whatever.I wish I could laugh at all this, but I know people hold those same viewpoints. It never made any sense to me when I was his age, and it still doesn't as an adult. Now, I'm not encouraging anyone to break the law, but my point is that it's just about as ass backwards and stupid as you could get.I also think it's funny how nobody knows how to use computers. At all. No one. I'm surprised the parents weren't beating the keyboard with their head shouting, "DUUUURRRRRRRRR" at that scene with the popups. Honestly, my grandmother knows how to use computers better. This whole movie is a joke. In fact, I think I'm going to go hit my head with a brick for a while to try and dislodge the stupid implanted by this movie..

I watched this terrible film on TV only because the plot synopsis made it sound like a genuine exploration of a wide-spread phenomenon. Little did I know that it would turn out to be nothing more than laughable, sanctimonious garbage. I get it that addiction is a real problem. But a teenage boy spiraling down to theft and deception due solely to internet porn? Give me a break. The simplistic juxtaposition between the sexy "bad girl", who, at only 18, has her own pornographic website, no less, and the virginal, church-going girlfriend is not only ridiculous, but also extremely infuriating. Naturally, the sexually active girl is also a liar and a cheat, and gets her rightful punishment, in the form of rejection. I haven't witnessed such double standard morality in ages. I wouldn't have bothered to comment on this film, but, in my opinion, it is dangerous - since what it ultimately teaches teenagers is that sex is evil, and can only lead to bad things. And that's a far cry from a supposedly realistic depiction of a serious problem. Shame on you for making such non-educational trash.