DLadybug - 11:36 am on Apr 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

I know the assumption is that people serving adult materials don't care who they serve it to as long as they make a $ off of it, but that's not true. Most don't want the liability issue of accidentally serving porn to minors.

I don't have porn or erotica, but I market to adults. Now, I do have a friend who runs a true porn shop. She uses all the sleazy tricks, the e-mail, the 14 screen exit consoles,etc.

The only thing our sites will ever have in common is we both will have a credit card input between the surfer and the content. Card holders are supposed to be 18. If someone has mom or pops card, then mom or pop broke the rules about loaning out the card or reporting it stolen/ missing. The big difference is where webmasters place that credit card gateway, and yes, far too many are serving ADs BEFORE the gateway that are as undressed as their paid content is. For that, yes, filtering has to be done from the browser or search engine side.

The problem with default filter ON is that a lot of people won't know how to turn it off, but the real creeps will know how no matter how complicated we make it.

Honestly, the biggest scare for sites serving porn is the Adult Pervert with that kid at his elbow. Here is someone with a card, is legally entitled to view anything, capable of unfiltering anything, and probably has access to kids because their parents trust him. Anything society does to protect kids from content still won't deal with the fact that there are truly evil people out there.

~Dian