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It's not just modern American that is into porn. It's been around since the dawn of time.
The benefit it brings can be a physical release, closer intimacy, stronger relationships.
There may be a few people in the porn industry that really want to be there. Think of the people in these films and think of why they do this type of work. Where did they come from? Were they tossed out on the streets when they were teenagers? People who went to Hollywood to find work and that was all they could get? Child abductions? Drug addicts?
And tell me please exactly how has porn been around since the dawn of time?
why don't libraries have a bomb making section of books for tax paying bombers. The information is legal and is out there why not provide it? Maybe a section of books for people who want to commit suicide? Tax paying people of course. Another big hit with so inclined readers would be books on cross burning techniques, like safety guides and pamphlets from the KKK.
why don't libraries have a bomb making section of books for tax paying bombers. The information is legal and is out there why not provide it? Maybe a section of books for people who want to commit suicide? Tax paying people of course. Another big hit with so inclined readers would be books on cross burning techniques, like safety guides and pamphlets from the KKK.
I agree with you 100% Even though those things you are referring to are offensive to some (including me), they deserve to be in the public libraries regardless. My main reason for starting this thread is because I am vehemently against any form of censorship. I wholeheartedly agree that everything you said should be provided in the library.
I agree with you 100% Even though those things you are referring to are offensive to some (including me), they deserve to be in the public libraries regardless. My main reason for starting this thread is because I am vehemently against any form of censorship. I wholeheartedly agree that everything you said should be provided in the library.
They are in the library. There was a big controversy about 30 years ago when Progressive Magazine found a book in the Madison public library that gave all the necessary details about how to make a atomic bomb, and reprinted it in the magazine. There are surely books on how to commit suicide in some libraries. There are, in the world, organizations that will sell you an exit pack, but it is illegal to ship it to the USA. Only recently has fairly detailed information begun to appear on line. The fact that you disagree with the KKK does not mean that libraries ought not to have books that describe their activities. To America's credit, this is not yet one of the countries where it is a criminal offense to question the orthodox version of holocaust dogma. Hitler burned books, and now the anti-Hitlers are burning books.
To even suggest that libraries ought to be subject to such restraints is to give a library the scope, if not the encouragement, to remove every book containing the n-word in any context, regardless of its historical or academic value.
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.
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Anything that reduces the dignity of a Person, reduces that person to objects of temporary self centered pleasure by focusing on their body parts, or supports illicit sexual behaviour which degrades an entire nation....is obviously wrong regardless of how titilizing it is and how common it has become . Wrong is always wrong , and is not based on popular opinion . Pornography ruins lives , fuels uncontrollable passions which need to be controlled, and is often the root cause for divorce and family breakups. If for no other reasons, Pornography should be outlawed everywhere in America ... but America is far beyond hope anymore and many forms of illicit sexual acitivity have become a favorite pastime because God and his moral mandates for a civil society 'are too old fashioned' .
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.
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People watch porn to get off. It's not out in left field to figure people are probably getting off in those libraries. I have no interest being exposed to that, let alone children.
People watch porn to get off. It's not out in left field to figure people are probably getting off in those libraries. I have no interest being exposed to that, let alone children.
You do have a legitimate point. But people also watch violence to 'get off', and it is unreasonable to try to find ways to obstruct everything that arouses people's emotions. I don't think kids should be exposed to library patrons getting off on blowing avatars to bits.
Would you be OK with it if the library provided privacy booths, so people could get off without you or the children being aware of it?
Quite a few people who are getting off in the library are cybering with an acquaintance who is either sending them explicit material by email, or using IM to exchange arousing messages. There isn't much the library can do to stop that, so whatever you do to restrict it will be only partially effective anyway.
You do have a legitimate point. But people also watch violence to 'get off', and it is unreasonable to try to find ways to obstruct everything that arouses people's emotions. I don't think kids should be exposed to library patrons getting off on blowing avatars to bits.
Perhaps, tho it's not often that violence results in ejaculation. I'm sure it does for some, but it's probably not the norm. I prefer folk to keep their spooge at home. That, and it's a health hazard.
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Would you be OK with it if the library provided privacy booths, so people could get off without you or the children being aware of it?
I wouldn't go to that library or allow my kids to go. Adult book stores/porn shops provide privacy booths for such business. So no, I would not be ok with my tax dollars funding people whacking themselves off on public property.
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Quite a few people who are getting off in the library are cybering with an acquaintance who is either sending them explicit material by email, or using IM to exchange arousing messages. There isn't much the library can do to stop that, so whatever you do to restrict it will be only partially effective anyway.
It's true that there is only so much that can be done, but turning public libraries, that I have to pay for, into porn shops shouldn't even be a question. Humans can be so idiotic.
It's true that there is only so much that can be done, but turning public libraries, that I have to pay for, into porn shops shouldn't even be a question. Humans can be so idiotic.
The issue, I think, is not "turning libraries into porn shops" nor is that any library's intent. Rather, the issue is taking arbitrary measures to block out material that would, as a matter of course, leak into the library, like bra ads in Cosmo. I see no purpose in dedicating public effort and cost (which I have to pay for) in an endeavor that can, at best, be only partly effective. And might even inspire people to disrupt the library function in an effort to defeat the measures.
The library can deal on an individual basis with incidents that exceed the bounds of reasonable use. Simply put up signs that say "no visible ejaculation arcs" or something, and then ban people who break the rules in a manner that offends public decency.
In other words, fall back on the old principle of common sense, instead of requiring everything to pass along a flow chart.
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Even though those things you are referring to are offensive to some (including me), they deserve to be in the public libraries regardless. My main reason for starting this thread is because I am vehemently against any form of censorship. I wholeheartedly agree that everything you said should be provided in the library.
