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Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?!
I come bearing more Lede wank. Today, the Lede posts about how the kids of today are getting an eyeful of pr0n online:

It will probably come as no surprise to most Internet users that a new survey, published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics (an abstract is available here), found that nearly half of all young people reported exposure, intentional or otherwise, to online pornography.

Forty-two percent of the 1,500 youngsters (ages 10 to 17) who were surveyed by telephone between March and June 2006 reported such exposure. Two-thirds of those who were exposed said the exposure was “unwanted,” according to the study; the exposure occurred most often when using file-sharing programs to download images.

The very first poster in the comment thread brings the wank:

This problem would be easy to solve if mom’s behaved like moms by taking proper care of their children. Children need close parental supervision, particularly maternal, all the way through high school. They don’t get it when mom’s off working full time and returning home so tired she just wants to chill out.

And they're off!

Wow Mark- You sure feel threatened by working women… “Beats me why women think having a career is such a big deal”… How stupid are you? Your question is the same a women asking men why we need to have a career? Why don’t you stay at home and take care of kids?

And that's just the beginning.

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 05:18 am UTC (link)

The first sex scenes in a book that didn't completely fly over my head (yet I still wasn't entirely sure what was going on) were from The True Confessions of Nat Turner, checked out from my middle school library. The librarians had pulled a bunch of books from the shelf for Black History Month for us, but didn't want us to read any "inappropriate" books. iirc, a young boy watching slave-owner-on-slave rape (which "turns consensual" halfway through), mutual masturbation between two male teens, and the nuances of farting are a few scenes that did not make it onto the illustrated book-report-cube we had to do; I was too filled with pre-teen giggliness that this had slipped through (this was shortly after a librarian had voiced her disapproval of the crudeness of humor in Hitchhiker's Guide).

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	doc_lydgate 2007-02-06 06:09 am UTC (link)
	spittake What utter, unredeemable halfwit would figure that anything that had much to do with Nat Turner at all would be hearts and sparkly unicorns? I hate school employees who can't figure out the most basic shit about U.S. history. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(Anonymous)
2007-02-06 03:44 pm UTC (link)

Well, there were a few other books that obviously would have violence, and I was able to draw a somewhat violent house-burning scene without comment (though I remember soft-pedaling it for fear, justified or not, that the book would be examined for content and tossed out). But it felt understood that while a certain level of violence could get a pass (why, it's a sad fact of life, and part of history!), sex scenes would practically be an automatic flag for "inappropriateness".

And oops: it's just The Confessions of Nat Turner. I, uh, mixed up the title with The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, apparently. Worst. Crossover. Ever.

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	lyppy 2007-02-06 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	In fifth grade, our librarian let us check out "Forever..." by Judy Blume. I learned a lot from that book. Mostly that guys want you to name their penis. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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