“Can merchants sell pornography directly to children? If not, why not.”
Are you talking about the shows kids can see on HBO? Or the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogues? Or are you maybe talking about what passes for ‘sex ed’ in the schools anymore?
Honestly, I see the pages of dirty magazines as far less damaging than is the seal of approval given to deviancy by our public schools and the popular media. As least most kids know to be ashamed of having a dirty magazine.
My understanding (I could be wrong) is that the justices determined that violence did not rise to the level of obscenity in the same way that sex does. Pornography would still meet the definition of obscene but these games wouldn’t.