nection to the Internet.[School Library Journal, October,1995, EBSCO-CD]After hitting the newsstands, the magazine quickly found its way to the floorof the U.S. Senate. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) asked to have the entirearticle entered into the Congressional Record in support of his bill S.892, theProtection of Children from Computer Pornography Act of 1995. "There is aflood of vile pornography," Grassley told fellow senators, "and we must act tostem this growing tide, because . . . it incites perverted minds."[SchoolLibrary Journal, October, 1995, EBSCO-CD]In a seven week period the Smithsonian Institution's web site gathered a totalof 1.9 million visits, and in a seven day time during June, Playboy took in 4.7million visits.21 Most of the pictures available on the Internet were at somepoint in time scanned from a magazine or other places which photos as such arefound. Many private BBSs do business in taking free photos to scan for peoplethen keep a copy of the picture for their site. Pornographic images onlyrepresent about 3% of all messages on the Usenet newsgroups although CarnegieMellon found that 83.5% of Usenet newsgroup pictures were pornographic.22The Usenet itself is extremely small compared to other portions of the Internetand only consists of 11.5% of overall traffic. The Carnegie Mellon teamsurveyed 917,410 sexually explicit pictures while doing their research on theInternet.23 98.9% of the online porn seekers are men according to private BBSoperators, the same operators which require fees to gain entrance.24Researches say that even though the 83.5% of images in usenets werepornographic that still only represents less the one-half of one percent of alltraffic on the Internet.25 Only nine out of 11,000 Web pages containedanything obscene yet Time still said, "There's an awful lot of porn online."26"[Cyberspace] is a safe space in which to explore the forbidden and taboo. Itoffers the possibility for genuine, unem...
