ABC said:
What about children reading books instead, so you'll have them clever and awaken enough later to decode the world through what is written here and there.
It's interesting. I got more sex and violence from the books I read as a kid than I got from videogames or TV combined. And no one cared.
I had an 'Aliens' novel that had the most explicit sex scenes, and I used to sit in class reading that. I read James Bond and Remo Williams books with sex, and heads exploding, and torture, while I was in the 6th grade. Piers Anthony's books are borderline rape-fetish and underage girl-fetishist, but my grandma used to take me to the library to get them.
Yet in my entire life it's never been suggested to me that kids shouldn't read. My folks used 'books as a nanny' all the time, and people praised them about how literate I was.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pro-book. But it's an interesting dichotomy.