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On Mon, 3 Jul 1995, Eric K. Meyer wrote:
> Excepts from Vin Crosbie's comment, posted at 22:37 on  2 Jul 95:
> 
> > Time's story claimed to be based on an authoritative Carnegie-Mellon
> > University statistical study of the Internet that found 87% of the
> > imagery on the 'Net was pornographic

What was even funnier was the claim that it represented a major portion 
of the traffic.

There are a group of newsgroups such as alt.binaries.pictures.sex.*
which include girls, gay, bondage, and bizarre subcatagories.  It is 
worthwhile to point out that many boards do not even carry these 
newsgroups and many of those that do require a sign-up fee, consent, 
warnings, and often a faxed proof of age.  In addition, you must be at 
least 18 to execute the contract legally.

I suppose there may be an occaisional "sicko" that creeps onto the "K-12" 
net.  He could do that no matter what the infrastructure did.  The joke 
is that most of these "porno postings" are actually copyright violations, 
being scanned from print magazines or copied from CD-Roms.

Even when you are looking for it it can be tricky to find.  Of course, if 
you do a lycos search for "adult gif bondage", you will get some 
interesting results.  I haven't even done that search and had a picture 
of Madonna Spread-Eagled show up on my screen.  Out of 4 Million web 
pages on Lycos, there were only 4,800 listed under "Adult".  A sample 
search produced pictures of Howard Stern, and several "beware any who 
enter here" warnings.  The juicy "alt.sex.bondage" newsgroup server - 
wouldn't let me in.

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.



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