[WEB4LIB] Re: Report Uncovers Epidemic of Children Viewing

[David Merchant]

At 04:48 PM 3/4/99 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
>Perhaps someone would be kind enough to research whether or not libraries
>are actually contributing to childrens' access to pornography.  When I was
>a child, and there was no Internet, it was readily available, thanks to the
>collections belonging to friends' fathers, older kids and so forth. I

Exactly!  Heck, even some of my lady friends when I was young seem to
readily find access to printed porn as well.  And for those that didn't
have access, why they would draw porn and pass that around.  It's like
those families that don't want their children to have toy guns: the kids
make toy guns out of sticks, etc.  Censorship will not suffice for
bypassing our individual responsibility to talk with and supervise our own
children in moral matters. 

TTFN,
David
Systems Librarian, Louisiana Tech University
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