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The size of the “porn problem” on the Internet is very poorly known. No statistics of which I’m aware can be trusted - we’re now in an area where both the pornographers and their opponents lie almost continuously. Here are a couple of links in which the size of the problem is variously estimated (not reliably, remember):
Note that in the second article we find a statement that “8% of total e-mails are porn-related”; this might be wildly wrong, but even so it compares strikingly to the estimates that 90% of e-mails are spam. Although my Web site contains some material that might attract pornographic e-mails, of my spam less than 2% are pornographic, and none of my legitimate e-mail is pornographic. Your results may vary. (Side note: if you put pages up on your Web site that contain words like “porn” or terms for parts of human anatomy, you’ll get at least some pornographic spam. Fortunately, the pornographers make a lot more money out of people who voluntarily visit their Web sites than they do from people who write essays about pornography. From what I’ve seen and heard, I think that your chance of getting heaps of porn-spam rise dramatically if you purchase any of the “services” for which porn sites want to charge you money. Simple remedy: never spend money on porn.) Most of the anti-porn literature consists of mere proclamations that porn is bad and then go on to suggest ways to fight it. The low intellectual quality and lack of grounding in reality is quite disappointing, no matter what your views. Of all the opponents of pornography I find Andrea Dworkin the most vigorous (and perhaps the most wrong-headed). But she wrote a lot and often had some good points. The World is poorer without her. Catharine MacKinnon has also been a powerful (if, in my view, dangerously wrong) advocate of similar views that arise from a “feminist” perspective. Newer links (but many refer to older stories, alas):
Older links, many
probably no longer
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