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Dear Jodi- So occasionally I like to turn these arguments around in my head: Why should the smart, mature people under 18 in this country be penalized because your immature, mentally retarded and over-fragile kids can't seem to handle the sight of naked people? What if I wanted to protect my children from the evils of Christianity? Could I ban that from the internet with the same sort of high horse the anti-porn people seem to be riding? And damage and change are completely different things. We're all changed by our experiences. Some people among us were apparantly beat over the head with dirty pictures as children and are now horribly afraid of them. The other bits in her letter (The bible being thrown out of public schools for example) were just plain lies. It's sad that when most of America has to chose between its essential freedoms and the most trivial of protection from objectionable thought, that we chose to lose the freedoms. _______________________________________ -wabe