HUSTLER CHALLENGE JACKPOT GROWS TO $250!

[Filtering Facts]

HUSTLER CHALLENGE JACKPOT GROWS TO $250!

Cross-posted to PUBLIB, PUBYAC, WEB4LIB, FILT4LIB, and ALAOIF.

As we enter the third week of the "Would Your Library Carry Hustler If It 
Were Free?" challenge, we still have no winner! Filtering Facts made this 
offer because many anti-filtering librarians insist that the only reason 
they do not carry hard core pornography in their libraries is because they 
can't afford it and have limited shelf space. Filtering Facts decided to 
give them the opportunity to put their money where their mouths are. 
 
Filtering Facts will pay for a year's subscription to Hustler Magazine to 
the first United States public library that will agree to the following 
conditions:

1) Put each month's issue of Hustler on normal public display with the 
other magazines, such as Time and People.

2) Allow full access to the magazine to anyone who wants it, including 
minors, just like you would with a typical magazine.

3) Inform Filtering Facts if an issue is stolen so that we can send an 
immediate replacement.

4) Announce the new addition as however your library normally does new 
additions, such as through your library newsletter, bulletin board, or 
new books display.


In week one, a free subscription to Hustler was offered to the first public 
library in the United States that would agree to the stated conditions.  
There were no takers, but several people did offer the objection that a 
subscription was not really free, since it costs money to process and 
circulate a magazine. Filtering Facts then agreed to also provide a check 
for $100 to cover such costs.  Since $100 would more that cover the 
processing costs, the winning library would actually be making money!  
Still no takers.  

For week three, the offer has been raised to a free year's subscription and 
$250!  With $250, a library could buy several subscriptions.  I had one 
library director tell me I could easily raise it to $10,000 and I would 
not get any takers.  I happen to think he was right, but I'll just let 
the offer stand at $250 and leave it at that, since it more that proves my 
point.  The point is that supply, demand, cost and space have nothing to do 
with why public libraries don't carry pornography.  Public Libraries don't 
carry pornography because it is grossly inappropriate, and we all know that.

So next time you hear Judith Krug, Gordon Conable, or one of the other 
hard-core anti-filterers  say "Public libraries would carry pornography if 
they had unlimited budgets", remind 'em of the "Hustler Challenge"!


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David Burt, Filtering Facts, HTTP://WWW.FILTERINGFACTS.ORG
David_Burt at filteringfacts.org