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The first generation to grow up with the Internet and all it has wrought in the cultural mainstream is beginning to come of age. It is a generation for whom 900 numbers and scrambled scraps of flesh on the Spice channel have given way, in a few short years, to bulk e-mail ads for the Paris Hilton sex tapes and porn subplots on "The O.C." It is a generation in which sexual frankness has become a permanent feature of the landscape, with uncertain long-term implications. By definition, pornography is sexual material that is so beyond the pale as to be...

Some Victorian nursing homes have become "grey light zones" with prostitutes visiting elderly clients for sex. Aged care and sex industry figures said it was a common practice in public and private nursing homes to sneak "escorts" in. Some homes set aside special sex rooms. Anna Priamo, a nursing supervisor at an inner-city nursing home, said frisky patients who harassed nurses were referred to a doctor who might arrange for a prostitute to visit them. "It's not something we put in our brochure," Ms Priamo said. "(The residents) might ask for it or if they make smarmy comments to nurses...