pornography

             The Internet has made living in today's world a lot easier. We can correspond with our friends better, gather information faster, and entertain ourselves with greater ease. This technology has become the new wave of communication and has opened so many new doors. But with this advancement in technology that has created opportunity, we have also stumbled into new barriers. One of the drawing features of the young Internet was its freedom. It's "...a rare example of a true, modern, functional anarchy...there are no official censors, no bosses, no board of directors, no stockholders" (Sterling). It's an open forum where anything can be presented and this is a problem that has struck our society hard. While this liberty is good to a certain extent, there needs to be barriers and censorship to protect the essence of human nature. The human body is precious and the materials in our society need to display and deem this statement true both on the internet and in the real world.
             Before the Internet, pornography was only accessible to individuals considered legal. These books, magazines and videos were only sold in stores that were monitored by government control. A child could not walk into an "adult" store and purchase material with dirty pictures, but now with the click of the mouse the pornography world is free for all. Minors can access almost any type of smut imaginable through this newfound information superhighway. It is a disgrace that in the real world we protect our children from the unlawful images of the naked body, but as soon as it comes to the web world anything goes. With 83% of the images on the Internet being pornographic it is almost impossible to avoid bumping into it. I recall trying to look up information on the Canadian beaver and being presented with obscene photographs of naked women. The fact that my intentions were clean and I still came across pornography just goes to show that...

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