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Originally Posted by Pangloss62
But really, you should see this one branch of our library system on Saturday morning; it's all young Black men either watching porn or listening to gangsta rap. They listen to the latter at such a high volume that, despite the fact they use headphones, the environment is anything but library-like. I miss the old blue-haired woman who says "Shoosh!"  |
I still don't understand why they are just watching porn at a library. Clarify me if you can but I have always been under the impression that porn is used to give an image or work up the imagination for masturbation.
Although the public is allowed access to the library at my college, it is still not allowable to be looking at porn. I didn't feel at all self conscious about using a pic of David and then of a streaker in a powerpoint I did recently, BUT I knew that my audience was an open minded proffessor and that the classmates should be mature enough to understand the meaning and joke i was using without getting offended. But the audience of these public porn surfers, unitended or not, are very likely to be offended. I've seen my share of porn, but I would be shocked and offended if I saw it without my consent, even a glance because images have a huge impact on a person. Also the possible presence of children would make me even more upset. My mother took me and my siblings to the library all the time when I was young (I was reading before kindergarten) and she relied on the library to provide a safe enviroment for her children to be in. Although she didn't leave us to wander on our own, its still possible we could have come across the porn surfers at the computers located in various areas of the library and she would most certainly be offended by that. They give ratings on the back of a movie and they also tell what the content is that caused that rating such as nudity, sexual content or violence. This is so that you know what is in your movie and you can choose not to watch it if it will offend you. The public porn surfers violate this idea.
I miss the "Shoosh"-ers too. They gave me candy.