[ale] Quiet

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Thursday 06 May 2004 05:02 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
| My 5 year old has absolutely NO interest. Pokeman web sites are way cool
| for him. My 13 year old thinks it's gross but still laughs at the sexual
| innuendo in movies ( except the "tent scene" in the second Austin Powers
| flick. She thought that was "totally nasty! Eeew!!"

When we were raising children my wife and I had a
small but eclectic library of maybe 4,000 volumes,
not counting technical tomes. The stated house rule
was that the children could read _any_ book at any
time. No book was off limits. Hidden in plain sight
were the collected writings of Havelock Ellis --
in six or eight volumes. Next to that was the
Kinsey Report. Because these books were _not_ off
limits, neither child had any interest in seeing
what might lie between the covers.*
That said, any pubescent male will be interested in
pictures of neek-ed women.

Hard-core pornographers were the first to figure out how
to make money off the internet. All of the e-commerce
we take for granted today was developed to sell
pornography. And today, damn near all of the hard-core
porno sites require a credit card number to see the
heavy duty stuff. They provide teaser pix on the
home pages, but that level of raunchiness can be
found in any current issue of Penthouse. So I don't
worry too much about young teenagers being exposed to
hard core porno on the internet.  I am far more worried
about "first-person shooter" video games. To me the
images of blood, guts, and gore being splattered across
the screen are far more pornographic than pix of men
and women doing what comes naturally. While naked.

If all you want is a pix of a pretty woman, there is
always Domai.** Different pix every day at no charge.

Sean

* pun intended
**  <http://www.domai.com>

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