by Lorelei Cohen

Created on: January 12, 2008   Last Updated: September 11, 2011

With the introduction of the World Wide Web into the homes and lives of so many people around the world, social and business opportunities that never existed "pre the Internet" are springing to life. Unfortunately so are new methods of crime and corruption, immorality and abuse also coming to light.

It is as though when online people forget who they are in real life, and become who they would like to be or can't otherwise be, unfortunately this often also comes with a lack of politeness, respect and caring for their fellow man. They say that war brings out the best and the worst of man, well unfortunately it appears that this saying also applies to the World Wide Web, and all of its offerings.

I suppose this "crap overload" is why I am often almost astonished when I come upon a site that still tries to maintain the same degree of normality throughout its web pages as one would still find in a real world business of the same caliber. I find myself silently applauding these same sites for not falling prey to the manipulative idea that "sites must sell sex because it sells".

Maybe if a few more Internet businesses maintained higher standards for themselves then the world would be just a little nicer place to play, and just maybe that one person poised on the edge of ill intent, would stop and touch a hand with kindness instead of malice.

Maybe that shy young fellow wouldn't go online searching for make believe sex, but would instead ask the girl down the block out and just maybe she would say yes, instead of committing suicide after being gang raped because that is what someone saw online as being a cool thing to do. Just maybe a few less crimes would occur and a few more lives would be lived to just a little better degree.

Time and again I see newscasts on the infiltration of criminal activities onto supposedly "reputable or safe sites", but what is not surprising is that when one cruises these same 'safe sites', you find yourself bombarded with sexual material. Some of which lies almost beyond morally acceptable sexually explicit propaganda.

I am no prude, in fact I am a very liberal person, but a lot of online material goes well beyond what I consider to be "safe" and far exceeds any tolerable level of normalcy. Little surprise that a criminal element lies lurking in the background of these sites just waiting for the opportunity to strike.

Why do reputable businesses on the Internet allow these elements to exist within their web pages? They certainly do not

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