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- <img src="stuff/journoporn.icon.gif" width=416 height=107><p>
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- <h2>Porn and AntiPorn</h2>
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- Cybersmut makes Senators rant, parents fret, and college
- freshman drool. It also makes <i>Time</i>'s circulation
- rise, if you know what we mean. If the <a LINK TO
- REBUTTAL>media frenzy</A> fueled by a certain newsweekly is
- to be believed, the Internet is drowning in a cesspool of
- Way New Pornography. But the path to prurience on the Net
- often ends with a "404 Not Found" or a "403 Forbidden," as
- any seasoned sex surfer will tell you. Cottage porn sites
- run out of their owners' homes are often unreliable and difficult
- to find. <p>
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- Most of the material on larger sex-oriented sites is
- repurposed, just as mainstream journalism is regurgitated
- onto the Web by sites like <a
- href="http://www.pathfinder.com">Pathfinder</a>. Three of
- the most popular Web sites are those run by <i><a
- href="http://www.playboy.com/>Playboy</a></i>, <i><a
- href="http://www.penthousemag.com/">Penthouse</a></i>, and <i><a
- href="http://hustler.onprod.com/">Hustler</a></i> to promote
- their print magazines. <a
- href="http://kspace.com/KM/screen.sys/Bimbeaux/pages/piece1.html">Adult-video</a> companies have also jumped on the marketing
- bandwagon. Imagine the disappointment of visitors to <a
- href="http://webnetserv.com/girls/home.html">Girls of
- Internet</a> when they discover the site just promotes a
- phone-sex service. <p>
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- Those who browse <a
- href="http://www.netaxs.com/people/beauty/netsex.html">guides
- to sex on the Internet</a> will find that the Net's
- out-of-the-way red-light district lacks the production
- values found on its Netscape-enhanced main avenues. There's
- <a href="http://www.casti.com/PRD/home.html">pedophilia</a>
- and <a
- href="http://www.zoom.com/personal/aberno/zoomorph/">bestiality</a>,
- but they're often about as titillating as an article in an
- academic journal. <p>
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- Even the now-infamous <a
- href="http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/by_group.alt.sex.html">alt.sex</a>
- hierarchy of newsgroups doesn't really offer point-and-click
- porn. Though some material there would shock even <a
- href="gopher://chaos.dac.neu.edu:1112/11/Congressional/Oregon/OR-JR">Senator
- Bob Packwood</a>, would-be dirty downloaders must wade
- through juvenile postings and contend with the intricacies
- of <i>uudecode</i> and <i>binhex</i>. <p>
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- Before you give up trolling the Net for <a
- href="http://www.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~paries/Image/GIRLS/GIRLS.html">half-clothed
- supermodels</a>, take a look at some sites trying to save
- you from yourself. Try your <a
- href="ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ea/earl/WorldWideWank.html">hand</a>
- at <a
- href="http://www.stolaf.edu/people/bierlein/noxxx/noxxx.html">dealing
- with pornography</a>, or reaffirm your family values by
- visiting the <a href="http://www.cc.org/">Christian
- Coalition</a>. And before you give up entirely, be sure to
- take one last look at some of the <a
- href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html
- #amendmenti">unseemly filth</a> the US Senate recently <a
- href="http://www.panix.com/vtw/exon/">voted</a> to abolish.
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