"You should try downloading my email sometimes. I didn't request the 15 "Check out Amber's huge rack" messsages I received. Five minutes from my house in suburban New Jersey is a place that advertises "LIVE NUDE GIRLS--SEX TOYS, VIDEOS, LAP DANCES" on a sign 20 feet high along a major highway."
You have just proven the point. You would like to regulate words so you are free from "the thoughts of" what you define as pornography. Much the same as the loony left wanting to restrict symbols of faith so they are not faced with "the thoughts of" religeon. What you promote can turn into a weapon to defeat your intended outcome!
I can't explain your email problem. I get next to no spam, and no pornographic spam. Maybe I just give my email address to more reputable sites? Who knows.
As for the signs, that's not forcing anything on you. I don't like soup, I don't consider it really food (it's a beverage), however Campbells doesn't force soup on me by advertising it. That's preposterous.
Tell me, were we a tyrannical and oppressive society when such things were not permitted? What do you tell your kids when they ask you what a "sex toy" is?
Yes, yes we were a tyranical and opprossive society. Ask Nabokov, Metalious, Griffin et al, or a host of screenwriters, playwrights, directors and producers who's artistic expressions weren't merely oppressed, but shackled. I'm silly, I believe in this ideal about about the free expression of ideas. A radical I'm sure.
I would tell my child what a sex toy was if one of them were to ask. I wouldn't go into graphic detail, but I'd have no problem telling either on that it was another name for sexual aid, and some adults, often the disabled incorporate them in adult relationships.