Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer-bulletin-board systems in the U.S. has jumped from 30,000 last year to more than 46,000 this year -- the majority of them offering some form of digital titillation. When Boardwatch ran a reader's poll of the best computer boards, three of the Top 10 were explicit "adult" systems -- including Pleasure Dome, based in Tidewater, Virginia, which offers, among other things, electronic access to ThrobNet, SwingNet, StudNet and KinkNet...
...networks comes in as many flavors as there are positions in the Kama Sutra. If your taste runs to explicit pictures, there are thousands of them on such bulletin boards as Nixpix in Aspen, Colorado, and Odyssey in Monrovia, California. Jim Maxey, a former journalist and part-time private eye who runs the Event Horizons system in Lake Oswego, Oregon, grossed $3.5 million last year from computer users willing to pay $9 an hour to connect to his bulging database of R- and X-rated digital images and film loops...
...anybody who reads romance novels will testify, words can be just as exciting as pictures, and much of the sexual activity on the networks is strictly text only. The Internet, the government-sponsored data pipeline that links computer networks around the world, is the repository of hundreds of sexually explicit narratives organized, in the Internet's bizarre filing system, by sexual preference: sex.bestiality, sex.bondage, sex.fetish.feet. And nearly every network offers some form of "hot chat" capability, in which users attempt to turn each other on by composing one-line messages that appear on each other's computer screens as they...
...language got a little too frank for its owners (Sears and IBM). In March federal agents raided bulletin boards in 15 states searching for evidence that they were trafficking in child pornography (which, unlike most pornography, is illegal in the U.S.). Parents' and women's groups complain that sexually explicit material is still available to any youngster who can operate a modem. "The last thing this culture needs," writes Stephanie Salter in the San Francisco Examiner, "is yet another method for reducing women to sex objects...
...Options. "Kids are seeing a world in which everything is sensual and physical," says Dr. Richard Ratner, who this week takes office as president of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry. "Even in this era of feminism, rap songs preach, 'Take this bitch and f--- her.' Everything is more explicit. It's the difference between wearing a bathing suit and walking around nude...