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Thursday, December 7, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Web browsers can find sites both promoting and denouncing sex on the Internet
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Sex and censorship World Wide Web sites:
Magazines:
http://www.playboy.com
Magazines:
Playboy
Penthouse.
http://www.penthousemag.com
Hustler:
http://hustler.onprod.com
Italian Playboy:
http://www.playmen.it
Books, videos and services:
The Complete Internet Sex Resource Guide description and ordering information: http://sleepingbeauty.com/world/netsex.html
http://sleepingbeauty.com/world/netsex.html
http://hustler.onprod.com
Italian Blowdow
Intersex City, adults-only entertainment service (requires subscription):
http://www.intersexcity.com
http://www.intersex.com
http://www.eor.com/gayzine/
GayZine
http://www.zoom.com/personal/aberno/
zoomorph
Pictures:
Trey Nash's Texas A&M site:
Jennifer's Naked Man Page
http://www.rpl.edu/~cearl/jnaked.html
Jef Poskanzer's Nude of the Month:
http://www.mall.net/
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~nifty/
nude.html
http://www.well.com/user/jef/nude.html
*Builds in now, newer.*
ROMAD Smut Page:
http://www.cen.niuc.edu/~mb9530/smut.html After Dark Adult Links:
http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~www8108/campus/
Mep on the Net.
http://www.ontap.com/people/stu/aftdark.html
Information on the Communications Decency Act:
Copy of the bill:
gopher://gopher.panix.com/70/0/wt/exon/
legislation/a314 final
**Voters Telecommunication Watch:**
http://www.vtw.org
Censorship and Web regulating Christian Coalition
http://www.cc.org
http://www.cc.org
http://www.safesurf.com/wave/ssplan.htm
SafeSurf:
http://www.sasplaf.com/wave/sasplaf.html
Breaking the Cycle, support for people addicted to Internet pornography:
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/bierlein/noxxxx/
noxxx.html
More sites can be found by conducting a keyword search for "pomography," "nude" or "sex."
SEX ON THE WEB:
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Yes, even Playboy knows about the popularity of sex on the Internet. Playboy, like several other men's magazines, puts its publication on the Web, too.
Terri Tomcisin, director of corporate communications for Playboy, said the magazine's page was among the top sites on the Internet.
"We get 2.5 million hits a day," she said. "And that number keeps growing."
The Playboy page features the same material that could be found inside the pages of any issue of Playboy magazine. That includes interviews, movie reviews and, of course, a centerfold.
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Tonicuisin said the nudes are only a small part of what is featured on the electronic Playboy pages. But the pictures of women are one of the most popular attractions, she added.
Women aren't the only gender showing up naked on the Web, although it may seem to be that way. According to an extensive study conducted by Martin Rimm, a graduate student from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, 98.9 percent of the viewers of on-line porn are men.
Trey Nash took photos of Shelly Cormeir at various locations around the Texas A & M University campus. He then posted a few of the pictures on the Internet. Now, Nash's page takes about 35,000 hits a day, and Cormeir has received several offers for modeling jobs.
Jennifer Cearley, a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., found that out when she looked for pictures of nude males on the Web. All she found were pictures of naked women.
"I started getting frustrated with the value men seem to put on naked pictures of large-breasted women, and decided to try to find pics of naked men, just to see if there were any around." she said.
Cearley and her husband searched the Web for almost three months before they found even one picture of a naked man. Cearley finally set up a Web page asking viewers to write her and point out sites on the Web that featured naked men.
Finally, she was able to collect several erotic pictures of men and set up her own page.
But the Web has more to offer porn addicts than pictures of nude men and women. According to Rimm's study, images portraying pedophilia and bestiality also can be found.
Her Web page is one of only a few aimed toward a female audience, but Cearley's site is not as popular as Nash's or Playboy's pages. Her page receives about 5,000 bits a day.
While his site contains no pictures, Anthony Berno, a software engineer in San Jose, Calif., has set up a page entitled Zoomorph, based on a fanzine he created a few years ago. Zoomorph is a collection of short stories describing sexual relationships between people and animals.
"I believe that sexuality offers a powerful vehicle for exploring the human psyche, and that bestiality provides an interesting and provocative way to express the basic connectedness with nature." Berno said.
A chat with Berno is enough to convince anyone that there are very few restrictions on Web-site content. And sites like Zoomorph have led several organizations to establish Web-posting guidelines. From those guidelines it's a short step to keeping breasts and buggyg from reaching the eyes of immature viewers.
Wes Hubert, assistant director of academic computing, said viewing sexual content at the Computer Center was restricted by the University's policy to provide a workplace that is free from harassment.
If anyone is offended by what someone else at the Computer Center is viewing, the offended person may report the problem to a staff member, Hubert said. The offending person may be asked to stop viewing that material.
If nobody complains, anything goes. Hubert said.
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That's pretty much the rule for Web sites every where.
Federal law only prohibits Internet users from sending pornographic material directly to children. The Communications Decency Act, sponsored by Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., and Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., would make stricter penalties for transmitting pornographic material across computer networks that are accessible to children. The bill would boost the maximum fine from $50,000 to $100,000.
The Senate passed the bill last June. The bill will go to a joint conference to be discussed within the next month.
The Christian Coalition, based in Chesapeake, Va. has worked with members of Congress to create legislation to control material on the Internet more tightly. The Coalition was established in 1900, about the time of the creation of the World Wide Web.
"Criminal law should be amended to prohibit distribution of, or making available, any pornography, softcore or hard, to children, and to prohibit distribution of obscene hard-core pornography to adults," according to the coalition's Contract With the American Family, posted on its Web page.
Monica Hildebrandt, deputy communications director for the coalition, said the coalition mostly relies on its state and local chapters to work with their respective members of Congress.
Kurt Chrysler, acting chairman of the Christian Coalition of Kansas, said the Kansas chapter has made no effort to work with legislators to control Web pornography.
Chrysler said the coalition was looking for a new chairman who would devote more time to this issue. Until then, the chapter would take no action.
Several contributors to the World Wide Web disagree with the Christian Coalition, and they think that government censorship violates the First Amendment
SafeSurf is pushing for authors of Web pages to rate their own sites on a scale of 0 to 9. For example, 0 would indicate that a site contains no adult themes, while 6 indicates a site with both sexual and violent themes combined with profanity. A 9 would indicate themes not covered by the other ratings.
right to freedom of expression.
"The Internet is the free flow of information," said Wendy Simpson, president of an organization called SafeSurf, based in Van Nuys, Calif. "To attempt to censor any of the 'net will only damage the entire structure."
Ray Soular, chairman of SafeSurf, said that the government would take control of the Web if nothing were done to keep children from accessing indecent sites.
Others would keen the Web unfettered.
Dinty W. Moore, author of the book "The Emperor's Virtual Clothes," a guide to the Internet, said he strongly opposed any mechanism which would prohibit free expression on the Web.
"If the job is done before they come, there's no need for them to do it," Soular said.
"There is no need to censor the Internet or the World Wide Web," he said. "Any attempt to do so would probably be futile, given the lack of a center and the international scope.
"But free talk on the Internet, even the offensive sort, is harmless, and it would be misguided to even try to stop it."
Several types of software programs on the market help parents restrict access to adult-oriented sites. And several of these programs have adopted the SafeSurf system as part of their programming.
Some computer experts aren't optimistic about such a plan.
Wes Hubert, assistant director of academic computing, said he was not sure the childproof software would be completely effective.
"It would just take one bright kid to find a way around it," he said.
And then there's Berno, who said he did not believe children should be restricted from the Web at all.
Coming across things like the literature featured in his Zoomorph page contributed to his education as a child, he said.
"I taught me, among other things, that there were entirely new ways of thinking about and approaching life, and that's something you'll never get out of your average elementary school," he said.
Others who run Web sex sites are more conservative.
Cearley said she wished for a better way of guarding these pages from children. She said she had no way to keep children from viewing her site's nude pictures But she does make her page difficult for children to stumble upon.
"As of right now, the only good way to find my page is to specifically search for 'naked' or 'nude,'" she said. "In that case, an immature viewer already knows that he or she is doing something that mom will be mad about."
Hubert expects the sex-on-the-Web controversy to continue for a long time. He said both sides were working hard to get their arguments heard. Organizations have rallyed in Congress and created Web sites explaining their views of censorship of the Web.
"How it's resolved—your guess is as good as mine," Hubert said.
Cormeier said she was glad she got a chance to put her body on the Web. She would encourage others to get naked electronically if they could.
Cormeier's next pictorial, a calendar featuring nude photos of her at various sites around Texas, can be ordered via the World Wide Web.
"You can meet all kinds of people all over the world," she said. "You can benefit from it. It's a new trend to get yourself published."
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