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to take note of, known thoroughly by frequenters of message boards and chat rooms. Rule 34 of the Internet states that if you can think of it, porn exists for it. Don't believe me? Do a google.com search for "dragons having sex with cars." This theme has its own entire subculture. In order to get the best results, you might have to use the f-word instead of "having sex." If that offends you, too bad: as already stated, the Internet is a dangerous, beautiful wilderness of uncensored communication, and the f-word will be a part of that until it loses its shock value.

Those who are afraid of all the pornography on the internet often are so frightened because they don't know how to use the internet. Net Nanny programs, junk mail filters, and most of all, experience, are what will keep porn away from your eyes while you're online. As long as there are people desiring to weed porn out of their Internet experiences, there will be programs and services available to help them do so. Why? For the same reason porn exists: there's money in it, because people are willing to pay for it.

A seasoned internet user might run into the occasional boob or cartoon crotch, but it's easy for someone so experienced and undesirous of porn pictures to forget that the loud, obnoxious, pop-up-crazy porn sites even exist anymore. Once you know how to use the internet (which, after ten years of constant use, I can attest to), you'll know how to control your own search results.

You will not succeed in banning pornography from the internet, and this is a good thing, as if this were to happen, it would mean that one minority's personal preferences had been imposed on the rest of the world in a controlling, stifling, sexually unhealthy, totalitarian fashion, without justification. The best you can hope to do is remove porn from your personal Internet experience, using free and paid services in combination with your own ever-growing web savviness.

I would like to add a personal anecdote: I wasn't exposed to pornography by the internet, but by my dad surfing the internet. My brother, a friend, and I, would peek over the stairs and giggle at the images on the computer screen in the basement. Dad browsed, and we, behind our hands, giggled madly: we were viewing something taboo, something we had been told was "bad," but within which, we couldn't see anything wrong. We just knew dad might get in trouble. And that was hilarious.

This is how children respond to pornography: "EW! GROSS!" If they're not old

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