[Barnacle]

If that's the way the librarians feel about it, why don't they advocate putting Hustler magazine on the shelf?

I'd like to see the public reaction to that proposal.

[Salvation]

Do they want to get sued by parents alledging that they promoted pornography? They are walking entirely a too tightly woven Political Correct agenda line.

[syriacus]

I used to belong to a library which had a copy or two of the book The Joy of Sex on a shelf behind the check out counter.

If an adult patron wanted to read the book, he or she had to request it. I don't think any of the librarians were saying (back then, anyway) that children should have had access to the book.

Wasn't that "safeguard" a little bit like putting an adults-only filter on the library's internet access?

If kids can't take out adult material without an adult card, should the library provide them access to adult internet material?

[Question_Assumptions]

Better to have a million children subjected to images of women (or men, for that matter) having sex with dogs, being urinated and deficated on, and having pins stuck into various parts of their bodies (and, yes, you can find images of these things on the Internet -- not just glamorous nudes) than to have one adult (or child) denied finding out information about contraception or abortion, right? So anything goes in public these days? Scenes from I, Claudius come to mind...

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

If you want to view online porn it's simple,GO BUY A COMPUTER AND WATCH AT HOME!

[HHFi]

I happened to be in the downtown Dallas library just yesterday, on the Fine Arts floor, and I needed to use a computer to look up a book. There were five computers there, and all of them had someone on them, so I had to wait. Three of them were being used for legitimate research. The others were being hogged by a couple of the bums who live there (living at the library is a new constitutional right), and they were staring at big color photos of naked chicks giving guys BJs. This was in full view of the entire library. It's absolutely astonishing to me that if I had kids, I'd have to ban them from the library because their rights to use a public research facility take a back seat to the rights of anti-social parasites to use my tax money to drool over pornography in front of children. Thank you, librarians and the ACLU!

[MonroeDNA]

I need to start dating librarians.