Libraries – 21st Century Bathhouses?

As I first reported on my blog, libraries across this great nation have decided that the only way to combat the viewing of pornography in the public square is not, as common sense might dictate, to apply filters but, in rather draconian fashion, pull Internet access altogether. As reported on WXYZ.com, the Mt. Clemens library just outside of Detroit, Michigan has dispensed with the information superhighway altogether because of its inability to regulate what its patrons are viewing. Why read Salome or Frank Wedekind’s Lulu when it’s just so much easier to click onto one of the ubiquitous MILF or DILF sites. Supporters argue that pornography has no place in a publicly funded entity like a library and that kids can easily gain access to inappropriate images. Critics argue that important information – information that isn’t even remotely connected to pornography – is being censored and by applying these imperfect tools we are throwing the baby away with the bath water. I say, have you ever spent any time in a public library? Maybe it’s must my monthly cycle of pheromones but from my visits to the library I don’t think kids viewing porn is the problem. I think the fact that they don’t have locker rooms is. Libraries are hotbeds for cruising. Bored, horny college kids, housewives with extra time, hustlers waiting for sunset. These are the characters that populate my local libraries. And with so many government buildings cloaked in a post 9/11 you’ve-given-up-your-right-to-privacy mindset, public libraries are still one of the few places that are camera free. At least I hope so. I had or gave more blowjobs in the Phoenix Public Library than candles on my last birthday cake. You know, we can argue until we’re blue in the face about what we can or cannot do to prevent children from viewing inappropriate images. But with or without filters, the kinds of porn available at your local library has a lot less to do with what’s on the monitor and a lot more to do with the extended gaze from that hot university hunk glossing over some obscure article from Paleontology Today.


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