pornography
<application> Still or moving images, usually of women, in varying states
of nudity, posing or performing erotic acts with men, women, animals, machines,
or other props. Some say it degrades women, some say it corrupts young boys (who
down-load it from the World-Wide Web or exchange it on floppy disks). Most of it
is in the form of JPEG images. There are many sites on the World-Wide Web
offering porn of all sorts, almost always for a subscription. It is said that
these are a driving force in the evolution of new technology and techniques for
the web. Advertisments for them certainly constitute a significant proportion of
all spam. There are even pornographic computer games, an early example being Mac
Playmate.
Beware - many institutions, particularly universities, have strict rules against
their computers and networks being used to transfer or store such things, and
you might get corrupted.
(2002-03-08)
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