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Online Porn

How Do We Keep It From Our Kids?

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

In the age of the Internet, it is laughingly easy for kids to view pornography online. A mere 3 percent of the more than 450 million individual porn Web sites ask for proof of age, according to a recent report by the Washington-based Third Way, a progressive research and policy group. Some sites simply ask visitors to certify that they are of legal age by clicking on “enter.â (...)


 

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