The system in your library sounds fine. I can accept that there is not a general problem with kids looking at porn in libraries. Unfortunately, my problem is now with the library I actually go to, whose policy clearly states that they will not filter or monitor anything a kid is doing on a computer. That, I have a problem with. I know they’re telling the truth, that they really don’t monitor the computers, because their own rule against playing games is being broken on about 80% of their computers every time I go there.
To be fair, this problem preceded the Internet. I remember being in a library about 20 years ago, and I saw a copy of “Dancer of Gor” in the juvenile reading section. It has a scene where the titular dancer’s virginity is auctioned off – to 17 different guys. She spends the night chained in an alcove, giving it up while chained in different positions. Not juvenile reading at all.
What does this mean?
From the link to your library, Children’s Services page.
ObOtherBugbear: Of course it’s a kid’s book. It’s fantasy. The mostly naked big-tittied woman portrayed on the cover in a sexually subservient position notwithstanding. (No, I haven’t read the book - but I do know Gor cover art.)
Will that allay your fears Hyperelastic?
This particular one had a cover of a dancing girl in a pretty standard belly dancing outfit dancing before some guys. Here’s the cover in question I think you can see why it wouldn’t set off any alarms. Unusually clothed, for a Gor novel heroine.
I figure someone might want to know that this link was flagged as PORN by the filtering system at my library.
My site is registered with RSAC, so I imagine it’s contents are, too, though there’s a lotta stuff on it that isn’t really pornographic.
Porn is the WORST form of “entertainment” on the planet. First of all, it leads men to believe that badly played brass “jazz” is sexy, cool, hip and appropriate music to bonk by.
Secondly, it leads men to believe that women just hang around in minidresses with little or no underwear on waiting to be bent over a desk or operating table, never MIND how She may want to do it.
Third, it leads men to believe that shoving it straight in and out for the entire sexual encounter will cause a woman to collapse into screaming ecstacy.
Why can’t they use some finesse and imagination? And 86 that crappy, CRAPPY music? Why can’t they have some realistic sound effects?
PUH lease, who makes noises like that when they’re getting it on? If Donna Summer can do it, surely they can find someone who actually sounds as if they’re enjoying themselves rather than undergoing midieval torture.
And the people? God, speaking of torture, these people suck worse than an “After School Special” at acting, and they look like drug addicts someone found on skid row and ran under the shower once or twice, then caked on 5 pounds of maybelline, and that’s just the MEN!
Maybe these church people aren’t really against porn cuz of the morality, but as a cry of protest against the slap in the face to the whole sexual revolution it is…
Bet you never thought of that huh…Huh???
Heh, Canvas Shoes, as my sister said earlier today, “Men get off on porn, women critique it!”
Heh heh. You know? It’s been since the 80s that I’ve even seen one, and it was horrible then. Since that time I’ve accidentally caught a few blue movies on cable while channel surfing, and stopped to see if it was as bad as I remembered it.
I think it was worse, if that’s possible. Same really, really bad boppy sounding cornet music, same cheesy looking sets, same ugly clothing and herion addict actors.
It’s a zillion dollar industry, come ON people, you can afford wardrobe, some Metallica, or GnR CDs, acting lessons, non zomboid actors. Let’s GO!!
You want us to protect y’all from the fundies, ya gots to give us something to work with!!!
Don’t get me started on the not even as classy as “Hustler” rags. Geez guys, whyncha get a damn fiber optic camera and just take a pic of our INSIDES huh? That’s the only way you’ll get more up close and personal with girls’ nether regions than you are now.
I mean, I like an attractively done nude as much as the next person, but that AIN’T pretty. (okay, so I’m a hetero girl and likely am missing the attraction :D)
Psh! Someone so unfamiliar with porn has no basis to critique it.
You women keep quiet about the porns and we’ll try to keep quiet about Lifetime, Whose Wedding Is It Anyway, etc. 
Tsk tsk…Tony, Tony, Tony.
You’re missing the point dear! See, if it were Good, perhaps, WE’D want to watch it too. Not to mention be more motivated to protect it’s production.
[ducky]Hmmm?? hmmm???[/ducky]
And then, who KNOWS what dickens we might get up to?
Dammit! I did it again, I KNOW that it’s its. But apparently my typing fingers don’t. grrr
Recently, in a thread about the Desperate Housewives ad, a supporter of the condemnation of ABC was quoted as saying “How do I explain it to my 6 year old?” It was the same bullshit excuse people used when they were all driven insane by a glimpse of Janet Jackson’s Evil Nipple of Doom. “My 7 daughter saw it! It was the context! My 7 year old daughter can not understand a nipple during a halftime show. Now what do I tell her?”
Do you want to know how to explain it to 6 and 7 year olds? Use words that they understand. Make sure they’re even asking the question you think they are. Don’t get all hysterical and hyperventilate and scream about how your child was damaged by a sexy ad or a nipple glimpse. That is NOT the way to explain it to any child.
Fucking parent your own kids you lazy, puritanical, hysterical overreactors.
Ooops! This was supposed to be it’s own thread.
How hard is it to explain the concept of “stupid showoff stunt” to a 6-year-old?
“Sometimes, honey, when grownups appear on national television, it makes them … stupid.”
Unfortunately in this day and age, yes. The list is endless…any pleasure one person can enjoy another sees as evil incarnate. People need to learn to stay the hell out of other people’s lives and let each person make their own choices and mistakes.
Yeah, but “Ow! You’re on my hair!” ain’t exactly erotic, is it?