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sadomasochism, foreign objects, voyeurism 2.Pedo / hebephile- nude pictures of young children in pre-pubescence, young looking children involved in hard-core sex acts 3.Hard-core , (non-paraphillic)- homosexual and/or heterosexual sex and /or sexual contact between two or more people 4. Soft-core- nude or semi-nude pictures that depict none of the acts covered above and masturbation13 For a child to gain access to some of the pornography listed above, it only requires the child to have a basic knowledge of how conduct a proper search. In other words, if a child knows how to search the Web or knows how to read Usenet newsgroups, he or she can probably find some type of pornography. This means that access, for most children wishing it, should be relatively easy.14 What has not been

discussed is how easy it is for pornography to find a child not actively seeking it. Knowledge of adult sites can come through spamming. Spamming occurs when hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses or newsgroups receive the same message all at once. Since this practice is done with no regards to the content of the message or to who receives the message, children receive the same messages as adults.15The messages are not always clearly marked in the subject line as being suitable for adults only. In fact, sometimes, the subject of the message may seem innocent. For example, author Lawrence Magid?s 11-year-old son received an e-mail with the subject ?I Need Your Vote?. This e-mail message sounded innocent enough, but in reality, it led to a list of free adults only sites. Some of

theses sites were respectable, while others were adult sites. Up to this point, the Internet and pornography , separately and together, have been discussed. Some feel that, while laws are not needed to keep children safe from Internet pornography, parents should have some other ways to protect their children from Internet pornography. Lastly, this paper will discuss two such ways that parents can protect their children from Internet pornography: Internet rating system/service, and monitoring and filtering devices. First, the use of Internet rating systems/services will be discussed. To better understand about Internet ratings , some questions must first be answered. What exactly is a rating service? A rating service can be person, group, organization, or company that provides

content labels for information on the Internet .What?s the difference between a rating service and a rating system? A rating system is the actual process used for evaluating the information. A rating system usually has of one or more categories that is used to evaluate the data. So, a rating service would use a rating system to evaluate content. Now that the difference between an Internet rating service and rating system is known, one last question must be answered: what is a content label? A content label is a data structure that contains the information about a document?s content. This label may be with the document it describes or be available by itself. One of the tools used to implement rating systems is PICS. PICS stands for Platform for Internet Content Selection. While

not a rating system, PICS is actually a framework for rating systems. It is general purpose and can be tailored to control many types of content. Not only could the sexual content of a document be rated, but practically any other kind of content could also be rated. For example, PICS could be used to rate the amount of hate speech that is contained in a document. 16 PICS is currently being used by some Internet rating services. One of these services is called SafeSurf. It is a parents? organization that has created a self-rating system .SafeSurf has many different rating categories. The SafeSurf Identification Standard is recognized by the SafeSurf Wave( SS~~). SafeSurf has the following ratings categories that could apply to pornography: age range (SS~~000), profanity (SS~~001),

heterosexual themes (SS~~002), homosexual themes (SS~~003), nudity (SS~~004),and sex, violence, profanity (SS~~006). Each of these categories have values of 1 to 9. For example, the category age range has the following values and labels: value 1 ? all ages, value 2 – older children , value 3 – younger teens, value 4- older teens, value 5 – adult supervision recommended, value 6- adults, value 7- limited to adults, value 8 – adults only, and value 9? explicitly for adults. For the other categories, the higher the value, the worse the rated content is. A content label in SafeSurf can identify all of the adult themes that a site may have. The following is an example of a SafeSurf content label that would appear before or within the 354