And the statistics back that up - around 30 per cent of worldwide internet traffic is porn, and 12 per cent of all websites are dedicated to the dissemination of smut. Lobbyists campaigning to ban or restrict access to internet pornography need to be aware it has a symbiotic relationship with the technology itself, funding its very existence. It is natural human instinct to turn every newly available medium to the sharing of the lewd. In a former life as an IT consultant, I worked for a number of telecoms giants whose shiny new networks and successive generations of mobile services were partly funded by sex lines, often run out of unlikely locations like Peru. One mobile services company boosted the profits of its promotional SMS business with TV dial-a-babe offerings. But the internet has made pornography available on a whole new scale without hard to explain telephone bills or visits to out-of-town newsagents. Part of the answer is to use automated internet parental controls. According to web security specialists Kapersky 23 per cent of blocked searches in the UK over the first five months of were for porn. But parents need to be educated that these sorts of content filters must be used alongside parental supervision and education for full effect. But more widely, if we make legal pornography harder to access by consenting adults, will we hamper the march of innovation?
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Avenue Q is a Broadway musical that is a loving parody of Sesame Street ; the primary "cast" of the show are all puppets manned by human puppeteers that are also part of the cast, but while puppets they deal with problems of adult life in an adult manner such as encounter racism, keeping a job and dealing with romantic relationships. The musical was first performed in , but didn't reach Broadway until mid, where it began to receive significant interest in wider media. One song in the musical is "The Internet is for Porn", sung by Katie Monster who is trying to explain the wonders of using the Internet and Trekkie Monster who continues to butt in and assert that in the end, these uses all are for pornography. Approximately midway through the song, other characters aka "normal people" will join in to affirm Trekkie's claims much to Kate's disgust.
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The joke for as long as I can remember was that the internet was made for porn, and, in many ways, it can certainly seem that way. These days politicians are harping on porn being a health issue as if this were the s all over again. Having been born and raised in America, I believe we are very sexually repressed compared to most of the world. I have lived in Europe and Israel and noticed in many parts of the West that there is a shunning of the human body. I was raised rather differently than most of my friends, my father being raised in Morocco where he was born, and raised in France, Israel, and the US; and my mother being raised in Los Angeles. This has afforded me the opportunity of being raised in a very unique way. In fact, it was a very open discussion in my family.
Sadly, however, there are those who are littering this information superhighway with obscene, indecent, and destructive pornography. It was June 14, , inside the Senate chamber in Washington, D. He cited figures—albeit dubious—from a study that found more than , pornographic images online that had been accessed approximately 6.
