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It is said that about 80% of the traffic or info in the internet is dedicated to pornography. I have no way of verifying this figure, but, judging from the amount of trash that I see in my spam or junk mail folder, the real amount would never fall below the 50% level.

Just the other day, a self-styled sex psychologist in our nominally conservative country decided to use the net as a question and answer forum for her business. This would never raise eyebrows in more liberal venues, but I guess that the internationalization of information sources means that if our curious folk can’t get it from a local, they will surely get from somewhere else. Maybe sex-advice blog originating from Moscow?

Maybe I belong to a far-gone era, when good manners dictated that certain topics be kept under wraps, or, at the very least, handled with utmost delicacy. Normally, one would construe the subject of sex and sex information as one that deserves to be treated with both tact and respect. Unfortunately, with today’s mores equating sex as something to be had at one’s beck and call, much like one would order coffee, the mystique of sex has given way to a more open or crass appreciation of the subject.

That is why pornography reigns in the net. The subject may be taboo based on laws or social convention, but this is observed more in the breach than in practice. What we have, therefore, is gutter journalism at its very worst. Pity.

sourced by JMJF