[Jeff Gordon]

Society prevented children of my generation from being exposed to porn.

I don't know what generation you were raised in. The first time I saw pornography was in 1955 at a barber shop. They kept girly magazines on the table for their customers. I was 11 years old. I survived that experience.

[Question_Assumptions]

Did that magzine in the barbershop include close-ups of spread genitals, hardcore sex, anal and oral sex, group sex, gay sex, bestiality, and so on? And before you tell me I exaggerate, my wife had to deal with bestiality pictures coming off of the printer in the college computer lab where she worked when we were in college (they had the same sort of "enlightened" view of pornography that you do). Yes, that sort of picture is out there on the Internet, and if you are unwilling to say "no" to any of the content that people view on public computers, there is no way to stop people from looking at those sorts of pictures rather than the airbrushed pin-ups you remember as a child, and there are most certainly people who will look at them in public if they are protected while doing so.

So, would you support a modern barber leaving hardcore pornography magazines around where 11 year-old boys can find them? Or should I take that as an admission that you see no problem with exposing children to pornography and think it's harmless?

[dsc]

Question Assumptions beat me to it.

I remember the "girlie" magazines in the barber shops in the fifties, and they were pornography like a guppy is a great white shark.