As you say, the above definition has no place in this conversion as we can not know, in the majority of cases, what the authors intentions were. And I wasn't asking for a dictionary definition, but YOUR definition as you seem to have a very clear and concise idea of what should be allowed and what shouldn't and seem somewhat offended that the rest of us don't simply agree to allow you to decide for us.
And to think that study on sexuality is a waste of time and should be considered pornographic and therefore excluded from the library...well, about 90% of the United States sexual perversion can be explained in that thought alone. You're showing your age Herbie....pretty soon you'll be telling your children and grandchildren how disgusting they are for showing their buttocks when they swim.
It's been around and in public libraries for what...20-25 years or so? Just guessing....Plenty of time for people to freak out.
The child may parrot his damaged parents reactions to such things, but at that age most have not been taught to be disgusted and shamed by sexuality/sensuality. That is the privileged of the old and close minded.
No, it seems to be what the supreme court has decided is free speech at the library. You are off in the ditch here brother. You say that if something causes sexual excitement then it is pornographic and doesn't belong at the library. Yet show me a perfectly legal picture, can be without a worry posted in a public place of a pretty girl with her nipples showing through her Tshirt and I'm a gonner....truly one of my hot buttons. Should that then be precluded from the library? And if grandma sees a threesome on the computer at the library but is not turned on by it, is it then ok to show it?
It truly breaks my heart to see you side with 9115 in the whole, "Well, it's obviously right, so it must be right! I guess we're just so much smarter and so morally superior that the rest just can't see our point of view from way down there...Pity..." Holy shit...that is the most damaged, archaic thinking imaginable....expected from him, but shocking from you.
My apologies.
But it goes so much further when we begin making rules/laws based on the whims of one group or another. When the internet was young and I was wrapped up in behavioral psychology I used to go into the different IRC chat rooms. They had EVERYTHING back then, and I used to visit them all to see if people acted differently depending on their fetishes. There was gay, lesbian, animal, child, every kind of sex that you can imagine. There was one channel, I don't remember what it was called, but they traded pics of kids fully clothed. I spent a few weeks in there in my spare time just to see if there was some overtly sexual draw for them...but it turns out that they just found amazing joy in seeing pictures of happy kids. With all of the things available on these channels, that was one of the first that I saw disappear...because people thought it was creepy. In no time I could find you pics of people eating each others shit, beating each other bloody, but some do gooder decided that people looking at pics of kids was creepy. I don't want that person/persons deciding what is allowable and what isn't in my world.
Again, it's nearly impossible to believe that this sentence came from you, nor that it is your actual thinking. There is a reason that the majority doesn't rule..and that is because by far the majority is ignorant and selfish. They want whatever seems right at the moment, and of course 'right' will always be defined by what is best for 'me' at that moment. I don't want 'the majority' vote to determine my constitutional rights, I don't want the majority to decide what my children can and can't read, or see, or discuss. We've been there...remember The Red Scare, Japanese internment camps, book burnings? The majority followed along on those paths and many others. All of those things were right and just...according to the majority....fuck that.
Education wins the day. I want the smartest, most dedicated people protecting my civil and constitutional rights...not the majority...never that...
Dwayne