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However, defining "pornography" is difficult. It's easier to detect pornography subjectively ("I know it when I see it") than come up with some objective criteria on which to base whether a given website is pornographic or not.
There are, however, DNS servers like OpenDNS, where you can select "Pornography" or "Nudity" or "Lingerie / Bikini" to be filtered out. I use the service at home, and it does a good job of filtering most, but not all, websites in those categories.
Are we talking about teaching Sex Education in schools, which the libraries will have to be part of, or are we talking about HARD CORE PORNOGRAPHY, allowed in the public libraries? Which one is it?
Two different things. here: the Birds and the Bees, is being taught in many schools, across the nation, with lots of class, in order to decrease the pregnancy rate among teens.
Two different things. here: the Birds and the Bees, is being taught in many schools, across the nation, with lots of class, in order to decrease the pregnancy rate among teens.
Aren't the powerful male politicians/sports figures, etc., the ones being brought down by their PHALLUSES, most of the time?
Ummm yea, and the women whom those "PHALLUSES" (sic) get into trouble with are usually made quite wealthy by the ...intrusion..of that certain male body part. Don't quite seem fair, but it is a fact.
This was debated on the news here recently in Las Vegas. Porn is currently allowed in the libraries here and a lot of parents are upset about it. You can go on a computer here and everyone around you can see the screen. I think they should leave it the way it is, so my answer is yes. Where I am from in Phoenix, it was not allowed, which I do not think is right.
Discuss...
Hmm, I can't see how anybody in their right mind no matter how horny he/she is, would go to the library to get satisfied. That's pretty sad.
Yea but don't most people that like to watch porn do it in private.
I think the OP is fixated on a very tiny number of individuals who are exhibitionists, and use the library computers opportunistically. If the library and/or the computer terminals were denied the exhibitionists, they would find some other place to expose their behavior to your kids.
It wouldn't hurt to teach your kids to keep their eyes to themselves, instead of looking to see what people are doing on their computers and elsewhere in their personal lives. Just walk right by the bank of terminals. Don't read other people's mail, don't eavesdrop on their phone calls, don't look under the parents bed when you're babysitting, don't look at the labels on bottles in people's medicine cabinets, don't examine what is in their shopping cart, don't watch them taking underwear out of the dryer, don't look in people's windows when you pass by at night. Make respect for privacy a habit, and there is less chance they will see something that you don't want them to see.
My biggest concern about porn-surfing at the library is the hygiene issue, if you guys know what I mean
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