Ask Dr. Helen: Should Men Be Kicked Out of the Church Nursery?
Curious antidote: before the Web became really popular there was a Unix command-line Internet, in which blogs were non-existent, but Usenet (now Google ‘Groups’). And kiddie porn was abundant, as were all manner of survivalist/libertarian/revolutionary types of people (early adopters seem to indeed ‘Think Different” TM).
The fact that Porn turned the Net into a commercially viable venture is inconsequential footnote.
But Usenet had “Binary” groups, in which, due to it’s TEXT-ONLY format, people posted pirate software there, in some sort of text-only coded format.
They also posted PORN. Lots of it. The earliest online porn of course used letters (“ASCII”) to make text into ‘Centerfolds.”
But one day some pervert posted an inquiry to a normal porn group…asking for pictures of 13-14 year old girls. The age of consent varies in various countries, and in a couple of near-Russia countries it was like 12-13, so “kiddie porn” was at the local bookstores, and it got posted to the Net.
But this one guy actually asked for it. And boy oh BOY did he get jumped on!!! Normal, religious and semi-religious types pounced on him. The next day, he logged on again, and suddenly all those men (there were no girls who wore dresses on the Net back then) became all fatherly.
Why? The poster was 12. He wanted to know what girls with boobs looked like, near his age. Rather than posting pictures of their nubile daughters, they gave paternal and nostalgic advice to wait, and ignore his growing pains as best he could.
