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Here is a picture of her. Hey, maybe she has a beautiful mind, but I wouldn't fuck her no matter how drunk I was.

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Well, lets take a look at the ALA Library Bill of Rights. Trimming only the most construable pieces:

I. Library resources should be provided for the interest[...] of all people of the community the library serves.
II. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan[...] disapproval.
III. Libraries should challenge censorship[...]
V. A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of [...] age [...].

So: If the library has a public internet terminal in its resources, and some kids are interested in porn, the librarians should not only let them have access to the terminal to find what's out there, but also resist any attempts by social conservatives to require filters to prevent this, as a matter of basic library principles. This sends FoxNews conservatives orbital. QED.

I've discussed with one of my freinds who is a reference librarian how she deals with this sort of thing. (Of course, she wasn't always a librarian. In college, she was an oversexed party girl, despite a mousy appearance to the first glance. She has publicly stated that she married her husband because "he's frigging huge and screws like a bunny". She still drinks like a fish most weekends. Librarians are oft loundly debauched party animals once you get outside of the "Quiet Please" library itself.)

She occasionally sees a decidedly under-age patron using one of the public terminals to surf for porn. Her solution is to go up to the kid and say (in a helpful librarian tone at normal librarian volume) "Oh, it looks like you're searching for porn. Is there anything in particular I can help you find?" About one time in ten, the parents haven't abandoned the little weasel to their own devices, perk up their ears, and come running to chew junior out. (If they don't keep an eye on their kids, they must live with the consequences-- see patron management.) Eight of the other ten times the kid goes "no, no, I was just finished"... and leaves. No courage of their convictions, the lot of em.

Once in a while, however, the kid will actually say what he (or rarely she) is looking for. And she helps them find what they're looking for-- that's her job. Of course, she doesn't direct them to goatse.cx or stileproject.com right off; she's familiar with a variety of more tasteful sites, from browsing with her husband. (Under what conditions, I do not inquire, but can easily guess.)

Even those brave ones don't usually let the "how to search for quality pr0n" lessons last long (being freaked out by the association of sex and librarians), and usually are relieved to be referred to a dead-tree book on sex education fairly soon. Not always, though--she mentioned once having an extended conversation with an unhappy girl who was uncertain of her sexual orientation. She helped the girl find some quality material (both factual and fantasy) on the web. She also recommended the girl have a discrete talk with either her parents or the high school's sex ed teacher. And of course, there was the teenage boy who assumed that her being helpful with his finding porn meant she was loose, and tried a pickup line; she provided him with an icy (quiet) earful on the cultural significance of two rings worn on the finger next to the pinky on the left hand, on the mutual disadvantages of sex between the underaged and those significantly older, and on incivility's subtantial anaphrodisiac properties and detrimental effect on one's liason prospects. He left with a copy of "Miss Manner's Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior", with the suggestion that studying it might help his prospects among the opposite sex nearer his age group. =)

If the kid is at the library looking f

... a while back. Right from their site:

"Although the general public often seems surprised when librarians don't fit their pre-conceived image, the profession has celebrated its own differences for years. Librarians are funny, irreverent, interesting, and often radical people. Though popular culture includes considerable library material, it often ignores those on the fringe."

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