History Film / CyberSeductionHisSecretLife

* AbusiveParents: Diane, who literally screams at Justin overlooking at the [[FullyClothedNudity tamest possible definition of "porn"]], and refuses to congratulate or even acknowledge him when [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers he places third]] rather than first in a swimming race.

* AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles: If you look closely, there's at least one piece of anime art in Justin's collection. Thankfully, this being a world where porn only constitutes to FullyClothedNudity, we don't see anything remotely explicit.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Monica’s pursuit for attention solely through sexual means and extreme reaction to getting rejected by Justin are clear signs of mental trauma from years of sexual abuse, not to mention she’s an underage girl running her own porn website. Interestingly, neither the screenwriter nor any of the characters give a damn about this rather distressing situation, [[SkewedPriorities instead focusing]] solely on the horrific crime against humanity that is a teenage boy browsing the internet for porn.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The whole point of pornography is sexual gratification, yet Justin's fixation does not seem to have a sexual motive, more admiration.

* BreakTheCutie: Justin is hounded and harassed to the breaking point by ''everyone'', including his own family, for the unforgivable crime of looking at some vaguely erotic pictures online - [[{{Hypocrite}} even the people who introduced him to it]].
* BrokenAesop: The film attempts to preach AnAesop about how looking at Internet porn will ruin your life when in reality, pornography addiction is not always standalone and comes with other addictions like alcohol, drugs, or sex. The 16-year-old protagonist starts out as a champion swimmer and ends up a suicidal mess because of the addiction. Pornographic addiction is a real problem and can cause serious issues (depending on the context of the pornography), but because it's on the Lifetime network the most that they can actually show is Justin looking at women in skimpy outfits, which undermines the moral of the story when all the problems that happen to him don't actually come from looking at porn in general: he gets addicted to energy drinks simply because he drinks them when he looks at porn, which could have happened from drinking them during ''any'' activity, plus he gets into trouble with people in town because the woman whose porn he was watching accuses him of raping her because he ''won't'' sleep with her, which is not likely on a probability scale. Half the kid's problems seem to originate less from looking at porn and more from having a (possibly narcissistic or abusive) mother who feels looking at such mild pornography warrants therapy and interventions.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Averted - at no point in the film does Justin touch himself while browsing the Internet for porn. [[IncrediblyLameFun He's just looking at it.]]

* DumbassTeenageSon: This being a Lifetime Original Movie, Justin fits this trope a T! Case in point, he doesn't bother to ''shut the door to his room'' whilst on a boobie binge let alone think to use private browsing tabs[[labelnote:*]]However, private browsing was not as common in 2005-2006, so this can be semi-excused[[/labelnote]] to hide his internet history from his overbearing mother. He even uses ''his girlfriend's PDA'' to send himself pornography!

* FullyClothedNudity: The pornography presented in the movie is far from anything titillating with it hardly being something that could cause concern, softcore would not describe it, with the photos being closer in tone to FashionNova or ASOS than Brazzers or Bangbros.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: The movie goes out of its way to demonize this trope. Ironically, being a sixteen-year-old boy in the midst of puberty, Justin would've been a "[[AnythingThatMoves sex freak]]" with or without internet porn.

** Justin's mother expresses concern that porn will give her son wrong ideas about women and sexuality, but has no problem using sex to coerce her husband into paying for an overly expensive vacation. Also, she completely freaks out about her teenage son looking at porn, yet it appears is perfectly fine with her other ten-year-old son playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''. You know, the one where you play as a criminal who can commit violent crimes and pick up prostitutes?
** The kids who bullied Justin for watching porn were the same people who introduced him to it. And, if that's not enough, Monica's boyfriend, who is one of them, keeps goading Justin to make make a move on her only to beat him up later on because of his porn obsession. Granted, she lied about him attacking her, but ''what the hell did you think would happen, dude?!''
* TheInternetIsForPorn: It's a story about a teenager who becomes addicted to internet porn and his life is destroyed because of it. As noted above, porn addiction ''is'' real and ''can'' ruin your life, but the film handles it like a nondenominational live-action ComicBook/ChickTract about how NewMediaAreEvil. Just to make it confusing, he's only found out because he inexplicably makes hard copies and hides them poorly (suggesting the writer was unclear on the concept or hastily adapted a script about dirty magazines), and depending on the scene it renders him either obsessed with or utterly disinterested in real-life sex, which is not always the case in real life.
* KarmaHoudini: Everyone who meddles in Justin's affairs - [[MyBelovedSmother Diane]], Monica, and the guys who introduced him to porn, then bully him for it - basically get away with him nearly being DrivenToSuicide over his addiction to this movie's interpretation of porn.

* OnlySaneMan:
** Justin’s father is the only one who thinks there is nothing wrong with a teenage boy looking at porn, but his wife [[HeelFaceTurn eventually pressures him into arm-flailing histrionics]] along with everyone else.
** Even Diane's co-worker who divorced her husband due to his porn addiction points out that all [[HormoneAddledTeenager teenage boys going through puberty]] get sexually curious and it's not really out of the ordinary that Justin looks at online porn, but Diane is quick to dismiss her.

* SkewedPriorities: It seems that the school administration is more concerned with Justin looking at porn on the library computer than the fact that one of their underage students has her own illegal online porn channel she’s been broadcasting on said computer. In real life, this would amount to an FBI investigation.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't ever look at even the softest of softcore porn or else your girlfriend will dump you, you'll lose the state nationals swim competition, your own mother will treat you like a sex offender, a local high school slut will try to force herself on you, and the cool kids will then beat the shit out of you.

* DumbassTeenageSon: This being a Lifetime Original Movie, Justin fits this trope a T! Case in point, he doesn't bother to ''shut the door to his room'' whilst on a boobie binge let alone think to use private browsing tabs to hide his internet history from his overbearing mother. He even uses ''his girlfriend's PDA'' to send himself pornography! [[labelnote:*]]However, private browsing was not as common in 2005-2006, so this can be semi-excused[[/labelnote]]

* AbusiveParents: Diane, who literally screams at Justin over looking at the [[FullyClothedNudity tamest possible definition of "porn"]], and refuses to congratulate or even acknowledge him when [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers he places third]] rather than first in a swimming race.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Monica’s pursuit for attention solely through sexual means and extreme reaction to getting rejected by Justin are clear signs of mental trauma from years of sexual abuse, not to mention she’s an underage girl running her own porn website. Interestingly, neither the screenwriter or any of the characters give a damn about this rather distressing situation, [[SkewedPriorities instead focusing]] solely on the horrific crime against humanity that is a teenage boy browsing the internet for porn.

* BrokenAesop: The film attempts to preach AnAesop about how looking at Internet porn will ruin your life, when in reality, pornography addiction is not always standalone and comes with other addictions like alcohol, drugs or sex. The 16-year-old protagonist starts out as a champion swimmer and ends up a suicidal mess because of the addiction. Pornographic addiction is a real problem and can cause serious issues (depending on the context of the pornography), but because it's on the Lifetime network the most that they can actually show is Justin looking at women in skimpy outfits , which undermines the moral of the story when all the problems that happen to him don't actually come from looking at porn in general: he gets addicted to energy drinks simply because he drinks them when he looks at porn, which could have happened from drinking them during ''any'' activity, plus he gets into trouble with people in town because the woman whose porn he was watching accuses him of raping her because he ''won't'' sleep with her, which is not likely on a probability scale. Half the kid's problems seem to originate less from looking at porn and more from having a (possibly narcissistic or abusive) mother who feels looking at such mild pornography warrants therapy and interventions.

* CluelessAesop: Because of television content standards, the most the movie can actually show of Justin's internet pornography addiction are [[FullyClothedNudity pictures of scantily-clad women]], rather than any form of hardcore pornography - or, heck, any nudity at all. This in turn undermines the film's message, since if something that mild is all it takes for him to spin out of control it becomes questionable whether he either has psychological problems already, or if his mother's extreme overreaction had something to do with it. If anything, the Internet pornography of that era would have been ''harder'' to find, not as easy as today, even though the Dark Web did not exist.

* DumbassTeenageSon: This being a Lifetime Original Movie, Justin fits this trope a T! Case in point, he doesn't bother to ''shut the door to his room'' whilst on a boobie binge let alone think to use private browsing tabs to hide his internet history from his overbearing mother. He even uses ''his girlfriend's PDA'' to send himself pornography! However, private browsing was not as common in 2005-2006, so this can be excused.
* {{Foil}}: Amy and Monica are polar opposites of each other - the former is a virginal religious GirlNextDoor, while the latter is a morally-bankrupt slut with her own porn website.

* AGoodNameForARockBand: When Diane discovers Justin's younger brother keeping a porno CD-ROM, her husband suggests there might be another explanation for the disc's title, to which she snarkily responds "Like what? Virgin Vaginas are a new band?", evidently unaware of bands like Music/BarenakedLadies, Music/ButtholeSurfers, Music/TheSlits, Perfect Pussy, Jack Off Jill....

* HormoneAddledTeenager: The movie goes out of its way to demonize this trope. Ironically, being a sixteen year old boy in the midst of puberty, Justin would've been a "[[AnythingThatMoves sex freak]]" with or without internet porn.
* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with the badly-beaten Justin breaking into the school swimming pool to drown himself.

** Justin's mother expresses concern that porn will give her son wrong ideas about women and sexuality, but has no problem using sex to coerce her husband into paying for an overly-expensive vacation. Also, she completely freaks out about her teenage son looking at porn, yet it appears is perfectly fine with her other ten year-old son playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''. You know, the one where you play as a criminal who can commit violent crimes and pick up prostitutes?

* SkewedPriorities: It seems that the school administration is more concerned with Justin looking at porn on the library computer than the fact that one of their underage students has her own illegal online porn channel she’s been broadcasting on said computer. In RealLife, this would amount to an FBI investigation.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The whole point of pornography is sexual gratification, yet Justin's fixation seems to be completely asexual.

* BrokenAesop: The film attempts to preach AnAesop about how looking at Internet porn will ruin your life. The 16-year-old protagonist starts out as a champion swimmer and ends the film as a suicidal mess. Porn addiction is a real problem and can cause serious issues, but because it's Lifetime the most they can actually show here is Justin looking at women in skimpy outfits - and the film's Aesop gets undermined when all the problems that happen to him don't actually come from looking at porn in general: he gets addicted to energy drinks simply because he drinks them when he looks at porn, which could have happened from drinking them during ''any'' activity, plus he gets into trouble with people in town because the woman whose porn he was watching accuses him of raping her because he ''won't'' sleep with her, which is just plain improbable. Half the kid's problems seem to stem less from looking at porn and more from having a mother who feels looking at such mild pornography warrants therapy and interventions.

* CluelessAesop: Because of television content standards, the most the movie can actually show of Justin's internet pornography addiction are [[FullyClothedNudity pictures of scantily-clad women]], rather than any form of hardcore pornography - or, heck, any nudity at all. This in turn undermines the film's message, since if something that mild is all it takes for him to spin out of control it becomes questionable whether he either has psychological problems already, or if his mother's extreme overreaction had something to do with it.

* DumbassTeenageSon: This being a Lifetime Original Movie, Justin fits this trope a T! Case in point, he doesn't bother to ''shut the door to his room'' whilst on a boobie binge let alone think to use private browsing tabs to hide his internet history from his overbearing mother. He even uses ''his girlfriend's PDA'' to send himself pornography!

* FullyClothedNudity: What the so called "porn" amounts to being about as titillating as a SEARS catalog.

** The kids who bullied Justin for watching porn were the same ones who introduced him to it. And, if that's not enough, Monica's boyfriend, who is one of them, keeps goading Justin to make make a move on her only to beat him up later on because of his porn obsession. Granted, she lied about him attacking her, but ''what the hell did you think would happen, dude?!''
* TheInternetIsForPorn: It's a story about a teenager who becomes addicted to internet porn and his life is destroyed because of it. As noted above, porn addiction ''is'' real and ''can'' ruin your life, but the film handles it like a nondenominational live-action ComicBook/ChickTract about how NewMediaAreEvil. Just to make it confusing, he's only found out because he inexplicably makes hard copies and hides them poorly (suggesting the writer was unclear on the concept or hastily adapted a script about dirty magazines), and depending on the scene it renders him either obsessed with or utterly disinterested in real-life sex.

* MyBelovedSmother: Diane will stop at nothing to save both her sons from the evils of internet pornography.

* NotGoodWithRejection: Monica doesn't take Justin's hesitance of having sex with her well, which leads to her physically throwing him out of her house, self-harm, and accusing him of hitting her.

* PornStash: Of [=CDs=] labeled by what kind of porn they are. Naturally, Justin's mother stumbles upon it.
* SexIsEvil: Or rather what this movie thinks is sex (or porn in this case), anyway.
* SkewedPriorities: It seems that the school administration is more concerned with Justin looking at porn on the library computer than the fact that one of their underage students has her own illegal online porn channel she’s been broadcasting on said computer.

This being a ''Lifetime Original Movie'', however, the subject of a teenage boy becoming addicted to computer porn is handled about as subtle as a brick to the face and the film has found its way into many a SoBadItsGood movie list as a result.

Justin is a promising high school student and swimmer with a girlfriend, Amy. His life starts to fall apart when he becomes [[TheInternetIsForPorn addicted to internet pornography]]. This being a Lifetime Original Movie however, the subject of a teenage boy becoming addicted to computer porn is handled about as subtle as a brick and the film has found its way into many a SoBadItsGood movie list as a result.

Justin is a promising high school student and swimmer with a girlfriend, Amy. His life starts to fall apart when he becomes [[TheInternetIsForPorn addicted to internet pornography]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: the whole point of pornography is sexual gratification, yet Justin's fixation seems to be completely asexual.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: The movie goes out of its way to demonize this trope despite the fact Justin would very likely be a horny mofo without the aid of computer porn.

* BreakTheCutie: Justin is hounded and harassed to the breaking point by ''everyone'' for the unforgivable crime of looking at some vaguely erotic pictures online - [[{{Hypocrite}} even the people who introduced him to it]].

* FullyClothedNudity: What the "porn" amounts to.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: The movie goes out of its way to demonize this trope.

* CluelessAesop: Because of television content standards, the most the movie can actually show of Justin's internet pornography addiction are [[FullyClothedNudity pictures of scantily-clad women]], rather thaaan any form of hardcore pornography - or, heck, any nudity at all. This in turn undermines the film's message, since if something that mild is all it takes for him to spin out of control it becomes questionable whether he either has psychological problems already, or if his mother's overreactions had something to do with it.

* CastingGag: The mother in this LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek who screams at her teenage son for looking at super-softcore internet "pornography" and desperately tries to get him to stop is played by Kelly Lynch, who is known for doing numerous nude scenes in different movies. Then again, the idea of her son having ADateWithRosiePalms while looking at naked pictures of her ''would'' explain her behavior a bit...
* CluelessAesop: Because of television content standards, the most the movie can actually show of Justin's internet pornography addiction are [[FullyClothedNudity pictures of scantily-clad women]], rather than any form of hardcore pornography - or, heck, any nudity at all. This in turn undermines the film's message, since if something that mild is all it takes for him to spin out of control it becomes questionable whether he either has psychological problems already, or if his mother's overreactions had something to do with it.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Monica’s pursuit for attention solely through sexual means and extreme reaction to getting rejected by Justin are clear signs of mental trauma from years of sexual abuse, not to mention she’s an underage girl running her own porn channel. Interestingly, neither the screenwriter or any of the characters give a damn about this rather distressing situation, [[SkewedPriorities instead focusing]] solely on the horrific crime against humanity that is a teenage boy browsing the internet for porn.

* BreakTheCutie: Justin is hounded and harassed to the breaking point by ''everyone'' for the unforgivable crime of looking at some vaguely erotic pictures online.
* BrokenAesop: The film attempts to preach AnAesop about how looking at Internet porn will ruin your life. The 16-year-old protagonist starts out as a champion swimmer and ends the film as a suicidal mess. Porn addiction is a real problem and can cause serious issues, but because it's Lifetime the most they can actually show here is Justin looking at women in skimpy outfits - and the film's Aesop gets undermined when all the problems that happen to him don't actually come from looking at porn in general: he gets addicted to energy drinks simply because he drinks them when he looks at porn, plus he gets into trouble with people in town because the woman whose porn he was watching accuses him of raping her because he won't sleep with her. Half the kid's problems seem to stem from having a mother who feels such a habit warrants therapy and interventions.

* AGoodNameForARockBand: When Diane discovers Justin's younger brother keeping a porno CD-ROM, her husband suggests there might be another explanation for the disc's title, to which she snarkily responds "Like what? Virgin Vaginas are a new band?", evidently unaware of bands like Music/BarenakedLadies, Music/ButtholeSurfers, and Gay For Johnny Depp.

* FullyClothedNudity: What the "porn" constitutes to.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Justin's mother expresses concern that porn will give her son wrong ideas about women and sexuality, but has no problem using sex to coerce her husband into paying for an overly-expensive vacation. Also, she completely freaks out about her teenage son looking at porn, yet it appears is perfectly fine with her other ten year-old son playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''. You know, the one where you play as a criminal who can commit violent crimes and pick up prostitutes?
** The kids who bullied Justin for watching porn were the same ones who introduced him to it. And, if that's not enough, Monica's boyfriend, who is one of them, keeps goading Justin to make make a move on her only to beat him up later on because of his porn obssetion. Granted, she lied about him attacking her, but ''what the hell you think would happen, dude?!''

* OnlySaneMan: Justin’s father is the only one who thinks there is nothing wrong with a teenage boy looking at porn, but his wife [[HeelFaceTurn eventually pressures him into arm flailing histrionics]] along with everyone else.

* PornStash: Of [=CDs=] labeled of what kind of porn they are. Naturally, Justin's mother stumbles upon it.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't ever look at even the softest of softcore porn or else your girlfriend will dump you, you'll lose the state nationals swim competition, your own mother will treat you like a sex offender, a promiscuous high school slut will try to force herself on you, and the cool kids will then beat the shit out of you.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't ever look at even the softest of softcore porn or else your girlfriend will dump you, you'll lose the state nationals swim competition, your own mother will treat you like a sex offender, a promiscuous high school slut will try to sexually force herself on you, and the cool kids will then beat the shit out of you.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't ever look at even the softest of softcore porn or else your girlfriend will dump you, you'll lose the state nationals swim
competition, your own mother will treat you like a sex offender, a promiscuous high school slut will try to sexually force herself on you, and the cool kids will then beat the shit out of you.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't ever look at even the softest of softcore porn or your girlfriend will dump you, you'll suddenly suck at whatever you were good at before, your own mother will treat you like a sex offender, and the kids you thought were cool will beat the shit out of you.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't ever look at even the softest of softcore porn or your girlfriend will dump you, you'll suddenly suck at whatever you were good at before, and the kids you thought were cool will beat the shit out of you.

** Even Diane's co-worker who divorced her husband due to his porn addiction points out that all [[HormoneAddledTeenager teenage boys going through puberty]] get sexually curious and it's not really out of the oridnary that Justin looks at online porn, but Diane is quick to dismiss her.