Porn on the 'net.

In my opinion, I think you are totally correct. Yes, there is a lot of porn on the net, but unless you intentionally search for it, or go to some illegal site, the chances are very low that you would ever come along one of these. And with all the anti-porn software that you mensioned, the is only something like a 1% chance that they would stumble upon porn. Unless, of course they are looking for it, and are advanced internet users, then the chances might go to a 100%.

Most of us use the Internet to find something, share something, or get to something. If you don't go looking for it, you probably won't find it. If you don't respond to that email with the subject "Hot Young Girls" then you probably won't get those sites into your Internet browser cache and you probably will never get the spam or popups that everyone talks about. If you do a search and you get a hit that says "Naked celebrities", don't click on it unless that was what you were looking for. If you don't look for it, you probably won't find it.

In response to manginaboy: If you were looking for dinosaurs, how did you get a respose email advertising "FREE SEX"? And why did you click on it? That is like trying to blame a speeding ticket on the kind of gas that we use!

For one thing, you didn't mention how pornographic sites advertise using e-mail lists bought off of people and so in the dinosaur example above, Mark's mother might request information from a site via e-mail and on checking her e-mail, finds various subject lines such as 'FREE SEX' or something along those lines. If these sites kept so discrete about it, they wouldn't make any profit and would revert to 'normal' pornographic sites to make more money but they're still around which disproves your point.

The majority of pornography sites do attract a large number of viewers because 'sex sells' as the saying goes. They then use this money to advertise on a variety of sites and in e-mail.

Finally, file-sharing programs such as morpheus or kazaa also contain offensive material such as you described which is available at the click of a button if 'documents' is not selected for example.

Oh and spending 5 to 6 hours on the net alone can't be good for you. I go to uni from 9 to 1 and work from 2 to 9 - how do you find the time?

You have to give credit to the articles and books!!!