Conquer Club

... in Seattle, there’s one place where you can watch porn in public, in view of others, and around kids, and no one official will bother you: The library. To be specific, the 27 branches of the Seattle Public Library. The latest grievance comes from Julie Vanderburg, who said she saw a man watching porn on a public computer in the Beacon Hill library a few weeks ago. When Vanderburg asked the man to stop, library staffers became angry with her, she said.

“One of the librarians, he said, ‘Please don’t ever approach another patron again,’” Vanderburg said last week.

“…(P)atrons have a right to view constitutionally-protected information no matter where they are in the building, and the Library does not censor what a patron reads or views on a computer,” Library spokeswoman Andra Addison said in an email to Vanderburg last week.

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MPs, Lords and parliamentary staff have been trying to access porn websites potentially thousands of times, official figures reveal.

Following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from the Huffington Post UK, the House of Commons authorities acknowledged that users of the Parliamentary Network servers, including both MPs and their staff, have repeatedly attempted to access websites classed on Parliament's network as pornographic between May 2012 and July 2013.

According to the official figures, the number of attempts to access pornographic websites via the Parliamentary network peaked for 2012 at 114,844 last November and at 55,552 in April for 2013. At least 5,000 people are estimated to be working on the parliamentary estate.

However, the figures have varied wildly, with the peak in attempted access this April more than halving in the following month to just 18,436 this May.

Parliamentary officials indicated that the figures would be inflated by websites automatically refreshing and thus adding to recorded access attempts. Additionally, pop-up or embeddable content like videos and pictures could have a knock-on effect on the number of access attempts recorded.

A House of Commons spokeswoman said the statistics do not prove a user "intended" to access a pornographic website as "a user may access a site that contains optional or automatic links to others, or other "pop-up" arrangements, which are recorded as requests."

However, the spokeswoman declined to respond to the question that such content which would likely be deemed "pornographic" on Parliamentary servers would not be found whilst surfing normal mainstream websites. The spokeswoman was unable to answer why the figure could vary drastically from month to month.

"We are not going to restrict Parliamentarians' ability to carry out research," the spokeswoman added.

Gillipig wrote:While it's not prohibited to watch porn in the library, touching yourself to it definitely is. So what's the point with watching porn if you can't jack off? Educational purpose??

ManBungalow wrote:

Gillipig wrote:While it's not prohibited to watch porn in the library, touching yourself to it definitely is. So what's the point with watching porn if you can't jack off? Educational purpose??

Watch it for the storyline and character development.