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Old 09-28-2006, 10:04 AM   #46
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Thank you. I knew there was something there - man, it was buried! I personally don't mind the restrictions. I don't want to see that when I am trying to read my email! Let alone the little kids that are walking around! In my head, a membership to the library (which you needed to use the computers) was a privilege, not a right. It could be revoked, I was always respectful and aware of the people around me. I didn't even open the WTF NSFW thread there because the amount of kids at the branch I frequented.

But, that is just me.
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Old 09-28-2006, 10:47 AM   #47
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Yeah, bbro, I'm still conflicted. In the abstract I see pornography as just a concept, a word used to describe particular types of pictures and moving images. But the whole reason I started this thread was because it bothered me.

Which makes me a hypocrite, I suppose. Well, maybe not, because I did not complain to the librarian.

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!"
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Old 09-28-2006, 12:45 PM   #48
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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.
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Old 09-28-2006, 12:53 PM   #49
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Certainly not all libraries have enough money to have separate children's rooms, but most I've been to do. The adult portion of the library is upstairs, and the kid's is downstairs. Teenagers would be using the adult section, but little kids wouldn't. My point is that an adult wouldn't be surfing porn in the kid's section, and kids would rarely be in the adult section.

But I still don't want to see anyone surfing porn in a library.
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Old 09-28-2006, 01:17 PM   #50
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Certainly not all libraries have enough money to have separate children's rooms, but most I've been to do. The adult portion of the library is upstairs, and the kid's is downstairs. Teenagers would be using the adult section, but little kids wouldn't. My point is that an adult wouldn't be surfing porn in the kid's section, and kids would rarely be in the adult section.
Not all libraries are this big. The one that I mentioned above with a lot of schoolkids running around was really small. Only one floor. I saw more kids in that library than adults.

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Sorry, I just read the first sentance of your quote and realized that is what you said. My bad......is it friday yet??
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Old 09-28-2006, 01:52 PM   #51
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The library I mentioned is located in one of the more shabby areas of Atlanta, right down the street from the County pen. It's the County's Audio Visual library, and has one of the best collections of CDs, videos, and DVDs I've ever encountered. But like Atlanta itself, it has a very strange racial divide. 8 times out of 10 that I'm there, I'm the only White person. The library is in a rather sketchy area of town, right near the County pen and adjacent to the Cynthia McKinney Highway. Most of the patrons are young AAs, and most have little regard for those "classic" rules of manners that most of (I assume) us grew up with. Most also have no interest in Almodovar movies or Oscar Peterson CDs. They are there to use the internet because they don't own a computer, and it's been my observation that their internet surfing relates to the most base interests; and let's be honest, we all have those.

As I noted before, much of the porn I inadvertenly see consists of pictures of naked women SENT to the surfer. Why so many women send nekkid pictures of themselves to random guys is beyond me. Lots of internet dating sites mimic porn sites it seems. I don't even go to the Main Branch of the Atlanta Library because it's a flop house for the areas homeless population; you take a seat to read something and then it's "What's that smell?"
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Old 09-28-2006, 03:20 PM   #52
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Evidently, I can look at it at my public library too; albeit when they are open.

I wouldn't say censorship has "nothing" to do with the issue. If my library removed Huck Finn from the shelves because it had the "N" word, wouldn't that be censorship. How is that different than putting filtering software on their internets computers?

Which got me thinking. I think they DO use filtering software; that's why that guy was getting his porn pics through e-mail rather than going to an actual porn site. Pretty smart.
There is a way around that sofware... there are sites set-up, specifically, to get around it.
Does your library carry Jugs, Hustler, & Penthouse? I doubt it.
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Certainly not all libraries have enough money to have separate children's rooms, but most I've been to do. The adult portion of the library is upstairs, and the kid's is downstairs. Teenagers would be using the adult section, but little kids wouldn't. My point is that an adult wouldn't be surfing porn in the kid's section, and kids would rarely be in the adult section.

But I still don't want to see anyone surfing porn in a library.
Which is why their accounts are canceled when they are caught...In a world with BRAINS!

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Old 09-28-2006, 07:25 PM   #53
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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.
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Old 09-28-2006, 07:33 PM   #54
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Some people have good memories, I suppose.

Or they could nip off to the bathroom.
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Old 09-29-2006, 06:00 AM   #55
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As I noted before, much of the porn I inadvertenly see consists of pictures of naked women SENT to the surfer.
This may explain why our library forbids sending/receiving email at its computers. I always wondered why.
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Old 09-29-2006, 11:18 AM   #56
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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.
Not everyone has an internet connection at home. And not everything has to end in full masturbation, otherwise men wouldn't bother to look at cute women on the street.
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Old 09-29-2006, 11:22 AM   #57
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Not everyone has an internet connection at home. And not everything has to end in full masturbation, otherwise men wouldn't bother to look at cute women on the street.
I just thought that that was the purpose of porn gazing...and why not get a magazine if no internet connection. Aparently its fairly easy to find them in a dumpster...my b/f said his first mag came from the beside the neighbor's trash can.
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Old 10-02-2006, 11:36 AM   #58
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It's just kind of a shame that a library can't be a safe place for everyone. We used to take field trips to the public library when we were kids so we could write book reports and stuff. I'd head straight for the section with the ocean stuff -- Jacques Cousteau books with sharks and diving bells and stuff like that.

It was an innocent time (mostly -- some necking in the elevator), and I hate to think that the new generation is missing out on it because we're so afraid of infringing on the rights of people who are out for salacious thrills.

Of course, if we had known there was porn available, there wouldn't have been any vacant computers left for the perverts.
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