I do not think that children should be exploited in any way. After all child porn is rape! Just as the law says that someone under the age of 17 (in New York State) cannot give consent to sexual activities. This makes children victims and that is not acceptable to be portrayed in pornographic pictures. Action should be taken against the people producing or providing the child porn, and to the people who are accessing this material.

People who are viewing this kind of material should be easier to find. Every computer has an IP address and this would be a way that should be used to track down people who are watching child pornography. The police should stop people who are providing child pornography to others; this would be harder to track because they are not just going to give themselves up. They should be tracked to location using IP addresses and arrested for this illegal activity.

Parents can implement child blocks online. Although they do not block all cleverly named website they will eliminate a majority of the images they want to keep away from their children. Parents should also be monitoring the activities of their young online. This is not only to protect them from seeing pornography, but also to prevent them from becoming victims themselves. Adults prey on children all the time and the Internet is the easiest way to get at young children.

Websites have to have a responsibility to check who is visiting their sites. This is hard, but a way needs to be found to keep their sites only seen to adults. Many sites have warnings of how it is illegal to view their site if you are under a certain age. This warning “protects” them from having liability, but I argue this is not enough action to keep children away from sexual content.

I propose that something more tangible and traceable to check date of births should be implemented. Having to enter a driver’s license number would be something that could be tangible. I understand this violates the rights of the individual being exposed, but by providing a credit card number you are exposing identity. Either way there is no clear cut way to stay anonymous while viewing these sites.

What I mean by that question is if it isn’t affecting anyone and they are doing something that is not necessarily appropriate, would it be obscene.  People do things that are inappropriate all the time, but I argue that it’s in where the event takes place.  People may stand and admire themselves nude in the mirror, but they are doing it in the privacy of their own home where others cannot see it.  Another case would be cleaning the house in the nude, but leaving the curtains wide open where several people can see it.  I tend to say the second scenario is much more obscene then the first.  The difference is that people can witness it and find it to be obscene.

Another factor in which I judge obscenity is whether others have been found of the same thing.  Each case is taken one at a time, but some cases are so similar with different outcomes.  An example of this was the book mentioned in lecture that was not considered obscene when it was a hardcover, but found to be obscene when it was printed with a soft cover.  I understand that they judged it by age, education, and wealth at this time, but the format of a book doesn’t change the content in a book.

Another case I found via the Internet actually made me laugh.  Two men were being charged with obscenity because they built a snow sculpture of a penis.  This is something that was public, and I agree is unacceptable to expose to anyone who is passing by.  This is exposing children to images that are unacceptable.  I feel this is justifiably charged because it was done publicly. 

My other point for this though is that people may not understand the outcome of some actions.  I feel as though they should have had a warning and they would have had to destruct the sculpture.  If they again made the same actions or did something of equivalent indecency they would be justified in a charge at that point. 

Porn can bring new ideas and spice up a sexual relationship.  When people watch porn they can be turned on and enjoy those same activities themselves.  Watching the porn with your partner may be the best way to communicate this excitement.  If they are not interested in the activity you can judge by their response to watching it.  I feel this is a good way especially in the beginning stages of a sexual relationship to become aware of your partners likes and dislikes.

Watching porn together can really bring two people into agreement and into experiencing new things together.  New experiences within a relationship do enhance and expand the relationship.  Porn is unlikely to pull people apart unless it is due to jealousy, as long as this does not happen then it is a relationship booster.

1)      Jessie.  I have noticed that she often brings up topics that are yet to even be mentioned in class.  This shows she puts thought and effort into her blogging efforts and it doesn’t hurt that she includes some personal accounts to keep the reader engaged.

2)      Hotchic.  I actually sent a response to one of her blogs in the past because it motivated me to write.  I happened to agree with her and she made some good points in her blogs and it is a relief to read something that makes sense. 

3)      Barizzo.  This blogger I noticed often goes to different sites to gather information.  They also blog in response to others, which is important in this class.  They are consistently doing a good job at keeping their blogs original.

I have heard of being able to download pornography onto an ipod, but was not aware of how readily available it was.  I agree that something needs to be done to stop this altogether!  Pornography should not be taken so lightly and it definitely should not be hand held.

First, I do not want children to be able to access this material so easily.  I sure hope that there is a fee for this and some sort of credit card number has to be attached.  I guess this would be one way of stopping the wide access to this content by children for the most part. 

Secondly, I am still unsure on whether I want adults to have access to this kind of material.  Personally I do not want to be sitting on the bus next to someone with their speakers so loud I can hear an orgasm on the other side.  Besides hearing it I do not want to glance over and be exposed to it in such a public situation with someone I don’t even know.

Pornography is watched mainly for arousal.  This should not be a public event and should not be able to access this anywhere you go.  Some places are just not suitable for this kind of content or for the behavior that often follows at the time of watching.  This is just unnecessary to expose to people in a public place.

I have to start putting my blogs up earlier in the week.  Procrastination is not good when it comes to school!  I also have to go look for outside sources that relate to what the lectures are addressing.  I think that this will bring in more thoughts from me and give me more original thoughts and overall a better entry. 

I feel that police everywhere, not just in the United States should be concerned with selling women.  I thought the topic of slavery was long over with, maybe not as much as first thought in other countries.  Laws are in place everywhere that it is illegal to sell people for money.  I just do not understand how the authorities do not feel that they should enforce the law?!  When other laws are broken they would take action, why is it not the same in these cases?

Police who are acting unethically should be considered for prosecution themselves.  The pimp who owned Katia paid the police for information.  The police should be brought to justice for this inaction as a person of the law.  The police have a certain standard they should be held to and if that is not possible they should pay for the consequences.  Everyone should be protected by the laws that have been put into place, because after all these laws were put into place for a reason!