Word: smut
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Internet access has opened Korea to a flood of smut from around the world. Homegrown Internet porn is still rare but Korean IJ sites?which initially presented themselves as talk shows?have proliferated in recent months, putting titillating images and dirty talk, in Korean, just a keyboard stroke away from any kid with a computer. That's alarmed this socially conservative country where twentysomething women living at home have curfews and parents still try to arrange marriages for their children. News reports earlier this year of teenagers selling child porn online have heightened concern over what the conservative Chosun Ilbo...
Unfortunately, the Internet has created many unhappy endings. Teenage girls are offering themselves for sex at chat sites, and police have set up a special squad to patrol cyberspace. In a society where smut isn't readily available, easy access to the Internet is exposing more kids to pornography, says Kim Yong Hak, a sociology professor at Yonsei University. In a survey of 10 elementary schools in Seoul, he found 10% of 11-year-olds had visited porn sites. With PCs in kids' bedrooms and PC rooms on every street corner, it isn't easy to turn back the tide...
...appropriate response to the brutal misogyny of Slim Shady--or the John Rocker-esque "songs" off Sixers star Allen Iverson's rap debut--or the excesses of slasher flicks and shoot-em-ups. But it is also an easy response. It is easy to demonize the purveyors of smut and violence when they target children--easy to muster outrage at the image of six-year-olds attending test screenings of the latest Schwarzenegger offering. And it allows us to turn our minds from matters that no one wants to discuss, matters in which we are all complicit...
...always been with us--from the cave paintings of Lascaux through the priapic statues of Greece and Rome and the fevered scribblings of the Marquis de Sade. But what we are witnessing, in the age of the VCR and the Internet, in nothing less than a revolution in smut. Pornography 30 years ago was a $10 million industry, a seamy demi-monde of adult theaters and run-down bookstores. For most people, porn meant Playboy, pin-up girls and maybe a deck of dirty playing cards for stag parties. Nothing else was available...
...heavy reading load won't surprise most English concentrators, and thought some of the more sexy standards have slipped in--Austen, Pope and Wollstonecraft--the rest is a spicy hodge-podge of theory, romance and out-and-out smut. Students can curl up with Onania one night and the next, with Pamela, a novel "suffused with palpitating breasts," according to Festa...