Posts by Emma Hart
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From memory, the novel was called something like Grey Matters, and involved a lot of Futuramaesque heads in jars.
Okay, see, now I'm curious. What are heads in jars doing with anal beads?
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Well, except I threw up in my mouth just a little bit...
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To use a phrase I've used a few times before here, cheers David. My children can walk right through the adults' library, browse it, and with parental permission, borrow books from it. Controlling my children's reading is MY responsibility. Same with controlling their internet access. I don't expect to control the net, I expect to control my child.
And I dunno about your library, but mine doesn't HAVE an erotic lit section. There's erotic lit in all the sections. Not the children's library, no, but my kids are well past picture books. And I DO want them to be able to access art books, biology books, and at my son's age, novels with mild sexual content. What's suitable for him is MY decision.
And yes. I'm not actually terribly horrified by my kids seeing a rude picture. My main concern is their exposure to bile-filled lie-stuffed bigotry. Perhaps we could come up with a special domain for that?
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Because, oddly, people who work in erotic lit don't want to be associated with hard-core pornography. They find it repulsive.
Also. The site I work on has ONE section devoted to Erotica. This section is security-protected and only accessible to paying users over eighteen. We have other sections devoted to other kinds of writing, which are more open, and accept members over thirteen. Should that confine us to what would be widely viewed as a pr0n ghetto?
Frankly, if you took everything off the www net that I wasn't happy with my ten year old viewing, there'd be feck all left. And I'm not as conservative as a lot of people - some of whom don't want their children viewing anything that normalises homosexuality, even if it's not at all explicit. I was asked to move a picture of two men kissing, even though they were fully dressed, from an M-rated forum.
I wouldn't leave hard copies (paperback!) lying around for children to read so why should the internet be any different?
But would you ask for them to all be removed from every library and put in a special pron-only library so kiddies couldn't touch them?
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Pornographers argued they were a 'legal' enterprise with zillions of consumers (no argument there) but moving them to xxx. would not have stopped them trading surely? It certainly would have made it easier for parents/schools to block -- not a bad thing surely?
The problem being finding a borderline for what's pornography and what isn't. Would you move erotic lit sites to xxx domains? And if not, then why erotic pic sites? And if not them... etc.
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Your idle hands do the devil's work Haywood!
TMI, dude, TMI.
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As a Grrrrl blogger, and just for balance, I can't say I feel I've ever been attacked just for being female. But then, I'm persistently mistaken for a man online. This is particularly hysterical when I'm accused of sodomy.
I like the idea of a free for all badge. Let 'em fly it with pride. But people work out pretty quickly what the environment at a particular site is like, and make choices. I'm big on people making their own choices about their net participation. The Erotica section at BW has a post entitled 'What should I do if I find some content objectionable?'. The first words are 'In the top right-hand corner of your screen, you should see a small x..."
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In a break with the official line, which has continued to insist the tournament is running smoothly, Alleyne admitted that things had not gone so well at other venues. He also said that some matches at the Oval were not sold out, mainly because sponsors had not taken up their allocations, and that spare tickets would be made available free of charge to local children. Furthermore, he hinted that ticket prices might be reduced "to encourage more folk in" although that would need to be cleared with the ICC.
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*checks watch* Seventeen minutes, not bad.
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Study Finds Women who Drink More Fun to Study
Stephen, I wish I was. I fumed all the way home, stood the kids in front of the monitor and looked it up on Wikipedia. "LOOK! Twenty-four! Don't let any other fecker tell you different!" They hadn't, of course, actually been listening at any point, but it made me feel better.