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09-24-2006, 01:50 PM | #1 |
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Library Internet Porno
Hey, I'm no prude, and I've looked at my share of internet porn, but what's up with these guys (mostly) who come into our libraries and just look at porno without any reagard to anyone? I feel a bit torn about this because I'm all for an open society, and I think America's weird obsession with sexuality actually is the reason we have situations like this. As I write this this dude two feet away is just scrolling through lurid pictures of naked women, vagina close-ups, huge boobs in living color.
Aren't libraries great? Lot's o' learning going on the 26 internet terminals here. Mostly kids playing games and porno heads. And 1 cellarite.
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09-24-2006, 02:03 PM | #2 |
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I work at a library, and we get tons of those guys. Normally we ask them to leave... If they're not being discreet about it. I know we've got a few who decided to add their own... ah... sound effects.
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09-24-2006, 02:31 PM | #3 |
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There was a thread in another board, I'll try to find it, about repeat masturbaters in libraries.
Apparently, it is a nationwide problem and the penalty is not to be banned, which AMAZES me. |
09-24-2006, 02:41 PM | #4 |
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Viewing porn in a library and masturbating in a library are two separate things.
But both are disturbing. |
09-24-2006, 02:46 PM | #5 |
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The article I read was both at the same time. They interviewed him with his family, the father hit the cameraman.
The PC was next to the kid's area. |
09-24-2006, 02:57 PM | #6 |
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Damn I'm tempted to play devil's advocate on this...
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09-24-2006, 03:29 PM | #7 |
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09-24-2006, 04:14 PM | #8 |
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Dan Savage in his column Savage Love addressed a similar issue a while back. What this amounts to is the viewer is making the public unwilling participants in his or her sex life.
And most of us know what unwilling participation in someone"s sex life amounts to.
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It is not allowed at my local library, exposing yourself is definitely not, and I KNOW masturbation is not. Ban from the PCs, for life. |
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09-24-2006, 04:49 PM | #12 |
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http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=25851
Here is the article I was refering to. I see the behaviour discussed here as being analogous to library porn viewing. maybe I'm wrong and you can point out where I missed something.
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09-24-2006, 09:35 PM | #14 |
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No apology needed. They are in different categories, and my statement was ambiguous. Both generally under the heading of "Wrong" and "Unwanted"
Rape and indecent exposure are very different in their extremes, but from the little I know about the psychology behind both of them, neither is about sexual gratification as much as power over another person. Porn is usually about sexual gratification (despite the feminist point of view that it subjugates women and treats them as 'objects'), hence the example relating to savage love's column. Our resident psych experts may be willing to weigh in on the pyschological underpinnings of "sex crimes". I'm out of my league. I think that bringing other people into your sexual game without their consent is wrong and that's how I see watching porn in the library. It isn't a violent assault on another person's physical self, but still may be uwanted.
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