When | was a litle kid being allowed to look things up on the internet for the. first time, my mom gave me a Talk on Internet Safety. There were Things On The Internet, she explained. Inappropriate Things. Things | Was Too Young To See. Little me fel that | was a Girl Of The World. | had Seen Things, | pointed out We had gone to the art museum; we had visited the part with the ancient Greek and Roman statues. | had seen (sotto voce) naked people. Not just in skimpy clothing, or underwear, or even fig leaf, but entirely naked! There was nothing left for me to see! My (poor, patient) mother sighed. No, she explained, there were Other Things. Things | Had Not Seen. Things Of Which | Did Not Know. They were on the internet, and | was to avoid them It was clear that this was the Parental Final World. But Small Me was left terribly, terribly curious. I'd thought I'd understood how things worked - a picture of a person in regular clothes was modest; a picture of a person in a litle less than that, like Marilyn Monroe with her skirt being blown up, was a litle bit racy; a picture of a person in underwear was pretty much a sex thing; and a picture of a totally naked person was (if it wasn't art or anatomy) pornography.

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